The woman who Celtics coach Ime Udoka allegedly had an affair with was not only responsible for all of the team’s travel, but she also arranged travel for fiancee Nia Long.
According to a source she also arranged, Nia’s move to Boston only a few weeks before news broke of their ‘relationship’.
What’s crazy about this story is that it was her husband who discovered his wife’s affair after overhearing a conversation she was having with Celtics coach Ime Udoka.
The conversation was overheard through their home doorbell camera.
multiple sources confirm , #Celtics female staffer’s affair w/ Celtics Coach #ImeUdoka was uncovered by her husband when he overheard a private conversation on a home doorbell camera.
— Kevin Frazier (@KevinFrazier) September 25, 2022
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According to well placed sources, even after the affair was discovered by the Celtics, the female staffer continued to work with #NiaLong on her move to Boston. Nia did not learn about the affair until the disciplinary action by the franchise was made public.
— Kevin Frazier (@KevinFrazier) September 25, 2022
A source tells ET that Nia Long was blindsided by the cheating allegations.
The source claims Nia knew the female staffer, had spoken to her multiple times and even worked with her after the Celtics had started their investigation.
The source tells ET that Long had no idea about the cheating until the Celtics announced Udoka’s suspension.
Long recently moved to Boston, but is now packing up to leave in light of the affair and Udoka’s suspension from coaching.
As far as the staffer goes, according to People, the Celtics are not here for the Twitter discussions about who she is.
After the news broke on Thursday, the names and pictures of several female Celtics employees were shared online as users on Twitter and other platforms speculated over who was involved in the affair.
Stevens, a former head coach of the Celtics who is now the team’s president of basketball operations, called the online discussions about the women “rampant bulls–t” during a press conference on Friday.
“The only thing that I would like to say is we have a lot of talented women in our organization, and I thought yesterday was really hard on them,” he said.
“Nobody can control Twitter speculation — rampant bulls–t — but I do think that we as an organization have a responsibility that we’re there to support them now because a lot of people were dragged unfairly because of that,” he continued.
When asked about how the franchise is supporting its female employees in wake of the allegations, Stevens said the Celtics held meetings to “make sure everybody’s available and supportive.”
“I think we need to make sure that we’re available for a while beyond that,” he said. “That was really unfair in my opinion.”
“I don’t know how we can control Twitter,” he later added.
“Obviously there’s only so much we can say, but our job is to be there. Yesterday was unfair to them.”
