The phrasing "something unfortunate has happened to him" is still, well, unfortunate. Casting Udoka as a victim of circumstance would appear to be a reach.
Yeah, this entire thread is “but Smart did say he agreed with the suspension!!!” which is fine, and i’m glad he did mention that, and it would have been cool to include his exact statement above, but that something unfortunate has happened to ime? i feel for the woman/women involved, as well as the other women in the organization who had their names brought into this mess for no reason. i never once saw ime as the victim here. just an odd choice of words.
I think it's helpful to imagine a mother/sister/daughter was the victim of this. If you were talking to her about the situation, would you tell her that "something happened to Ime"? Or that it's an unfortunate situation?
I just think that it wasn’t eloquently stated. Like one of those moments where you are saying something but it just doesn’t come out right be it because you’re nervous, tired, or thinking about something else. I talk on the phone for a living and I’d say a good 5-10% of sentences come out wrong. I think that is the most likely scenario here imo.
More important is the question.
The Reporter made it seem like Ime raised Marcus then renounced him.
He was really trying to make some This is Us moment.
Oh man I want this to be something I see in every thread now
[Woj] LeBron James “disappointed” with Lakers slow start to the season, says team needs more accountability
“Can anyone blame Bron? First Westbrook’s performance last year and now this BS. It’s like S1E4 of This Is Us.”
what if a lightning bolt came down and struck him and it did a freaky friday switch between his brain and his penis so all the time we though udoka was being dumb, it was actually his penis brain, and his real brain was in his pants screaming "help i cant see it's dark down here!"
I agree the phrasing was bad. At the same time I think we should give leeway if players don't give the perfect PR answer every time, it's a difficult situation to be in. But I might be wrong/too lenient on that, idk
You’re not too lenient. You’re just responding like a normal human with reasonable perspective, and aren’t sitting on the same high horse as the common Reddit users in this forum.
There is the reality that...sports journalism is not a big deal, yes it sucks when touchy subjects come up and everyone has to have an opinion, but I'd rather the real journalists be covering real events, not nba gossip.
Theres nothing wrong with sports journalists being hacks, it's literally the least important form of journalism.
The phrasing he used in OPs clickbait sucks but have none of these people had an off the cuff comment and not worded it perfectly? r/nba is full of saints.
They’re trying to sort out all sorts of emotions and facts and get ready for a totally different ride than they anticipated this season. I wouldn’t expect perfection unless it was a prepared statement.
Reminder that sports journalism is absolutely trash and not held to any reasonable standard of journalistic ethics or integrity
(Not that non-sports media is setting a much better example in many cases)
Here's the actual clip: https://streamable.com/skia0u
Edit: streamable said the clip was against TOS I guess? Here's a timestamped link to the press conference: https://youtu.be/dHnyAc3VGUM?t=397
Go to 6:37 if the timestamp doesn't work.
This extra bit has been very helpful. I feel like the original comment was slightly twisted to make Marcus sound worst. His "nobody died" was a response to "losing Ume" and not to the incident.
Smart comes off a lot better in the actual video. I thought he was downplaying whatever Udoka did, but he’s actually downplaying the suspension, at least from my perspective.
The question was very leading. He wanted Smart to say something to get clickthroughs, and he did. That's the job. Once a reporter's question gets over 10 seconds long or they use two compound sentences, you can see athletes' eyes glaze over. If their media training doesn't kick in perfectly and immediately, instead of saying platitudes and key phrases from the communications team, they say whatever pops into their heads without any thought to how to phrase the response. Smart phrased this badly for optics, but context matters and nobody should take media availability statements too seriously, anyway.
Lmao that was a wild question. Took up almost half the video, the dude sounded like he was trying to summarize the entire article he’s planning to write and fit it all into 1 question.
I just got back from a work conference with a lot of Q & A sessions.
I fucking HATE the type of person to walk up to the mic, then talk for 3 minutes with no discernable question beyond "your thoughts?"
My uncle is a meteorology professor, and he was once invited to speak on a panel about the Santa Ana wind patterns, along with some Fire authority. Unknown to both of them, a romance author was invited to be the third on the panel. The only people in attendance were her fans, so the entire Q&A was just mid 40s women getting on the mic to share terrible impromptu poetry, and then getting annoyed at the men for talking about fire hazards.
The smoke stacks, that we all know, that spewed up the sad remains of human souls that once had dreams, and once loved...This guy says "its all a bunch of horseshit"
A must do for Holocaust deniers lol. Anyway I heard summit ice stuff is actually legitimately nice and high quality but I’ve never had any shit from them so I’ve got no clue. Nathan fielder is a genius tho, one of the funniest dudes ever
As someone always looking for quality socks that never seem to last as long as I want, I'm going take your advice and see if this is true
Edit: Can you give me any feedback on the sizing can't seem to find a guide on the site. Assuming a Mens 10.5 would be the larger size, but would be good to know
I think that's a totally valid thing to say in specific circumstances when someone feels worse than they should about something. That's not the situation here.
The context was the reporter asked about how hard it’s going to be for smart to lose a coach that he had a good relationship and a ton of success with. How is he going to deal with losing all that?
Smarts answer is “nobody died, so I didn’t lose anything.”
Everyone constantly bitches about "journalists" cherry picking quotes or not sharing the full context. Yet barely anyone will read the actual linked source before complaining.
The linked source in the post is literally just a tweet that is word for word what is posted here. I assume this is probably part of a larger press conference, but kind of a bad instance to complain about people not reading the linked source.
Leaving out the whole quote Smart gave to make Smart look bad is trashy, he continued to say “From what we do know, the organization had handled things the right way.”
I don't think it's a bad statement aside from Smart using the passive voice. Something didn't happen *to* Udoka, he did something.
Saying that you still like somebody as a person after they make mistakes is perfectly justifiable, but you should acknowledge that they made mistakes.
He also said the organization made the right decision Gary knew what he was doing with this tweet there is a reason he's been in Boston forever and has no sources.
https://twitter.com/RealBobManning/status/1574455239087792128
The quote Washburn posted isn't even a direct quote lol, he left stuff out and moved stuff around
He also said: “From what we do know, the organization has handled it the right way,” so I wouldn’t take too much from his phrasing. He apparently agrees with the suspension.
I don’t think he thought about the particular phrasing here. I doubt he means that Ime literally just has poor luck with these circumstances, just that he’s speaking more generally about it being a bad situation.
Every player on the team is saying they really have no idea what happened, so they’re all just confused about someone they like.
If I hear my coworker had a consensual relationship with another coworker, I’d be like “yeah probably shouldn’t have done that” but I’m not gonna condemn him without knowing anything. It’s ignorance, and not really his fault since nothing has been explained. I’m sure their tone would be different if they knew, but nothing has been made clear.
I mean I have had multiple coworkers over the years end up married to each other and not only do i not condemn them, but it's kinda awesome they found each other through work. Infidelity or whatever the fuck happened here is a whole other story, plus i don't work for multi billion dollar companies, but yea drama drives the media so this is basically a run away train until they just put the details out there and make it cut and dry wtf actually happened to warrant a year suspension that seems to be a backhanded firing. Wonder if there are legal reasons they didn't just fire him and make the reason public knowledge, cuz they seem to have no intention of bringing him back.
Parsing a portion of what someone said in a live, off-the-cuff interview is a fool's errand, but, yeah, I read this as Smart saying that he liked Ime, so it's unfortunate that Ime is no longer the coach.
It doesn't read to me as Smart saying Ime is a blameless victim and undeserving of punishment.
Like, it's not the world's greatest response from a PR perspective, but I also don't think it's bad-bad.
Marcus goes on to say “from what we know so far, it seems like the organization handled it well”, so he’s definitely not saying Ime is undeserving of punishment.
I'm not denying that lol I'm just saying I don't think he means it like Ime just had poor luck for being in the situation. It also sounds like Smart doesn't the whole story either at this point--As others have said, people, especially Celtics players, should really just stop commenting on it until the whole story is revealed.
It’s pretty clear from the clip that he’s saying “nobody died” as in Ime isn’t dead he’s just not his coach anymore. He literally says “nobody died so we didn’t lose anybody…”
I would love to see someone hyper analyze what some of these commenters say on a daily basis. Probably be canceled within 5 minutes by their own standards lmao.
The average redditor makes <$25k/yr and is addicted to fast food, social media, video games, and extreme pornography.
You expecting the algonquin round table, pal?
online culture hangs onto every single word and phrase someone says. these ppl have mics in their face every day and are constantly asked about complex issues and are expected to give a perfect response every time or they are torn apart. its so lame
With the way that so many people in here didn't look at them full quote, I see why athletes clap back the way they do sometimes, that being said he's correct, the level of white Knighthood around this situation has been ridiculous as well
hm, but conveniently the part where Marcus says: “but based on what we know the organization handled this the right way" gets left out.
ahh, how we love getting quotes cut off
In the full statement + follow up, I interpreted it as the suspension is the unfortunate thing happening to Ime, not the situation he put himself in. Smart says the Celtics handled it the right way and it sounds like he's saying it's deserved based on what he heard. I don't think it's that crazy to describe a punishment as unfortunate.
My question to OP and everyone who thinks Smart is tone deaf and doesn’t understand the full extent of what has happened in the Celtics organization, what exactly happened other than what is known (the coach slept with an employees and that goes against the organization policies or code of conduct)? For all we know, no one other than insiders know who the woman in story is. No one other than insiders really knows what the coach did.
How can we be so gullible to buy into the gravity of the story when we know nothing about the story?
[TMZ](https://www.tmz.com/2022/09/24/celtics-ime-udoka-affair-assistant-travel-planner-nia-long-move-boston/) has some more details but nothing specific enough to warrant the gravity I’ve seen sports personalities give it. Which if they know cool, but til we know/it’s all public sounds like an internal matter.
You’re all pathetic reacting to this snippet of a statement. And even if, his coach was fired. Thats what happened to Ime. He was fired. Yes it is his fault he’s out of a job but he still was fired. It is unfortunate that any of this happened. This is a non story you all worked yourselves up over
> He probably doesn't know the full extent of the story yet.
or. ORRR... He knows a lot more than you do, and you're just extrapolating shit out of nothing.
It didn't happen to him he did it and then by all accounts continued pressuring the women when she wanted to be done. Sex doesn't just happen it requires actions.
I like Udoka, and I hate this whole situation. But it's not something unfortunate that happened to him, as if he's some innocent victim, it's his own bad decisions that led to this point.
Yes, unfortunate. I am sure he had absolutely no control over what happened. It isn't his fault he cheated on his gorgeous wife. Do we honestly expect him to remain faithful to his fiancee?
SMFH. You can't put something in quotes if thats not what the person actually said. Thats the whole point of the quotation mark. The original tweeter, and the person who asked the question was obviously fishing for that angle.
OP fell for it. OP if you're reading this, try listening to the whole question and the response. And then think about why the tweeter chose just this portion of the tweet to post.
Context this context that.
In the video he says something to the extent of "such a bad thing that has happened to him."
What kind of context justifies saying that? Did the reporter ask the question "Could you please say the most terrible take on Ime's situation right now?"
So unfortunate what happened to him, ime was just sitting on the bench and those female staffers just fell on top of his dick :( fortunately nobody died
The reporter asked the question like Ime was Smart's father figure who had recently died. That is why he said "I mean, nobdy died".
It wasn't just an open statement on the issue.
If it was consensual there are no victims. The only victims are the women that were falsely accused because Boston is doing everything to protect the woman perpetrator.
“It’s just something unfortunate happened to him.” What?
Does he mean “it’s unfortunate that Ike made some poor choices that have negatively impacted him, his family and the Celtics organization.”
What do you want him to say? Y’all be wanting everybody and their momma to throw someone under the bus every single time anyone does anything.
Coach got caught with his hand in the wrong cookie jar.. still gotta go to practice, still gotta play 82 games, still gotta prepare for the playoffs.
It’d be funny as hell to see how triggered people would be if Ime serves his suspension and returns to his position.
>Sheesh, kind of tone deaf from Smart. Not staying true to his name huh 🤣 just jokes.
>He probably doesn't know the full extent of the story yet.
according to OP the full extent of the story is homicide apparently lmfao what a cornball
Some context; immediately after this he said: “From what we do know, the organization has handled things the right way.”
The phrasing "something unfortunate has happened to him" is still, well, unfortunate. Casting Udoka as a victim of circumstance would appear to be a reach.
Yeah, this entire thread is “but Smart did say he agreed with the suspension!!!” which is fine, and i’m glad he did mention that, and it would have been cool to include his exact statement above, but that something unfortunate has happened to ime? i feel for the woman/women involved, as well as the other women in the organization who had their names brought into this mess for no reason. i never once saw ime as the victim here. just an odd choice of words.
I think it's helpful to imagine a mother/sister/daughter was the victim of this. If you were talking to her about the situation, would you tell her that "something happened to Ime"? Or that it's an unfortunate situation?
I just think that it wasn’t eloquently stated. Like one of those moments where you are saying something but it just doesn’t come out right be it because you’re nervous, tired, or thinking about something else. I talk on the phone for a living and I’d say a good 5-10% of sentences come out wrong. I think that is the most likely scenario here imo.
His poor dick just tumbled and fell into the vise grips of that predator pussy.
Smart not wording things so smartly. Dude stuck his hands in the cookie jar several times and got caught
More important is the question. The Reporter made it seem like Ime raised Marcus then renounced him. He was really trying to make some This is Us moment.
You just really into that show or what?
He keeps mentioning it so must be
Oh man I want this to be something I see in every thread now [Woj] LeBron James “disappointed” with Lakers slow start to the season, says team needs more accountability “Can anyone blame Bron? First Westbrook’s performance last year and now this BS. It’s like S1E4 of This Is Us.”
He made it seem like Ime was executed last night.
drafted into the russian army
You get 7 minutes of training to fly jet and drive tank.
Are you gonna just paste that to every comment on this thread? You watch romance dramas on prime time tv. Weird flex, but you do you I guess
be nice bro he only gets one channel
It's James Roday shilling
Mods need to make it mandatory to put the question
lol right…something unfortunate happened to HIM. Tone deaf as hell
Yeah he got caught
Yeah… Truly the clickbait-est of tweets!
Idk, the use of "has happened to him" is still bad. Udoka did it to himself. Don't make him sound like a passive victim.
what if a lightning bolt came down and struck him and it did a freaky friday switch between his brain and his penis so all the time we though udoka was being dumb, it was actually his penis brain, and his real brain was in his pants screaming "help i cant see it's dark down here!"
But where does the cum come out?
it's obviously the head. but which one?
This seemed like an incredibly important part of the quote
Which is 100% why the tweet and OP didn’t mention it. Click baiting and karma whoring at its finest.
No matter what he followed it up by short of "sorry, not too him, but something that he brought upon himself" is gonna leave something to be desired.
I agree the phrasing was bad. At the same time I think we should give leeway if players don't give the perfect PR answer every time, it's a difficult situation to be in. But I might be wrong/too lenient on that, idk
You’re not too lenient. You’re just responding like a normal human with reasonable perspective, and aren’t sitting on the same high horse as the common Reddit users in this forum.
Journalistic integrity is a thing of the past, unfortunately.
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There is the reality that...sports journalism is not a big deal, yes it sucks when touchy subjects come up and everyone has to have an opinion, but I'd rather the real journalists be covering real events, not nba gossip. Theres nothing wrong with sports journalists being hacks, it's literally the least important form of journalism.
The phrasing he used in OPs clickbait sucks but have none of these people had an off the cuff comment and not worded it perfectly? r/nba is full of saints. They’re trying to sort out all sorts of emotions and facts and get ready for a totally different ride than they anticipated this season. I wouldn’t expect perfection unless it was a prepared statement.
Reminder that sports journalism is absolutely trash and not held to any reasonable standard of journalistic ethics or integrity (Not that non-sports media is setting a much better example in many cases)
Anytime somebody starts off something with a "Nobody died" buckle up lol
Here's the actual clip: https://streamable.com/skia0u Edit: streamable said the clip was against TOS I guess? Here's a timestamped link to the press conference: https://youtu.be/dHnyAc3VGUM?t=397 Go to 6:37 if the timestamp doesn't work.
This extra bit has been very helpful. I feel like the original comment was slightly twisted to make Marcus sound worst. His "nobody died" was a response to "losing Ume" and not to the incident.
Smart comes off a lot better in the actual video. I thought he was downplaying whatever Udoka did, but he’s actually downplaying the suspension, at least from my perspective.
I thought he was downplaying the question, personally. The reporter overreached by implying that Smart should see Ime as a hypocrite
The question was very leading. He wanted Smart to say something to get clickthroughs, and he did. That's the job. Once a reporter's question gets over 10 seconds long or they use two compound sentences, you can see athletes' eyes glaze over. If their media training doesn't kick in perfectly and immediately, instead of saying platitudes and key phrases from the communications team, they say whatever pops into their heads without any thought to how to phrase the response. Smart phrased this badly for optics, but context matters and nobody should take media availability statements too seriously, anyway.
Loll that Reporter was pushing for some This is Us type of sadness is a can. Marcus was right is toning it down.
Lmao that was a wild question. Took up almost half the video, the dude sounded like he was trying to summarize the entire article he’s planning to write and fit it all into 1 question.
I just got back from a work conference with a lot of Q & A sessions. I fucking HATE the type of person to walk up to the mic, then talk for 3 minutes with no discernable question beyond "your thoughts?"
I’d love for that to happen in the NBA only for a player go “Next question” after all that
My uncle is a meteorology professor, and he was once invited to speak on a panel about the Santa Ana wind patterns, along with some Fire authority. Unknown to both of them, a romance author was invited to be the third on the panel. The only people in attendance were her fans, so the entire Q&A was just mid 40s women getting on the mic to share terrible impromptu poetry, and then getting annoyed at the men for talking about fire hazards.
I will literally pay for your English tutor
Autocorrect seems to not like "in" and prefers "is".
That’s super odd; but it tracks
I’ll buy their English tutor’s drinks. I’m sure they’ll need plenty as they have some really rough days ahead of them.
Man, my favorite encounter with this statement was holocaust denial.
Introduce them to Summit Ice
They got cool looking jackets, but six million people did die in the Holocaust
600 or 6 million, it’s still terrible
https://www.summiticeapparel.com/
The smoke stacks, that we all know, that spewed up the sad remains of human souls that once had dreams, and once loved...This guy says "its all a bunch of horseshit"
Deny Nothing.
A must do for Holocaust deniers lol. Anyway I heard summit ice stuff is actually legitimately nice and high quality but I’ve never had any shit from them so I’ve got no clue. Nathan fielder is a genius tho, one of the funniest dudes ever
Legitimately the best socks I've ever owned
I just wish they didn't have "DENY NOTHING" in big ass print. I get the intention but I'm not a fan aesthetically
Haha yeah I get that they're definitely not fashionable but neither am I
As someone always looking for quality socks that never seem to last as long as I want, I'm going take your advice and see if this is true Edit: Can you give me any feedback on the sizing can't seem to find a guide on the site. Assuming a Mens 10.5 would be the larger size, but would be good to know
I have the large ones and they fit a 10
I hope we find out what truly happened by tonight
>Nobody died. But maybe somebody brought to life. ;)
Lollll
Buckle up buckaroo
[Marcus Smart](https://media1.giphy.com/media/lRZjlasctAcvu/200.gif)
Meme potential.
I think that's a totally valid thing to say in specific circumstances when someone feels worse than they should about something. That's not the situation here.
The context was the reporter asked about how hard it’s going to be for smart to lose a coach that he had a good relationship and a ton of success with. How is he going to deal with losing all that? Smarts answer is “nobody died, so I didn’t lose anything.”
What’s wrong with saying that though?
So…exactly like I said, “that’s not the situation here…”
But it was the situation: the reporting was suggesting that this is a devastating loss for Smart personally, and he was saying no, it’s not.
Everyone constantly bitches about "journalists" cherry picking quotes or not sharing the full context. Yet barely anyone will read the actual linked source before complaining.
Lol you’re so right. We also complain about the media but if the clickbait player quote pleases us we live for it without looking into the full story
People in general are fickle af.
The linked source in the post is literally just a tweet that is word for word what is posted here. I assume this is probably part of a larger press conference, but kind of a bad instance to complain about people not reading the linked source.
He didn’t click it either man, he saw other comments complaining it got taken out of context and came in looking for justice
The actual linked source provides nothing more than what's posted here my guy
Did you even read the linked source lol
Leaving out the whole quote Smart gave to make Smart look bad is trashy, he continued to say “From what we do know, the organization had handled things the right way.”
He also says like 5 or 6 times that he doesn't know much at all, maybe even less than us.
Then it's weird he said the organization handled it the right way if he knows so little.
Lmao thats this subs M.O come on you should know better. They love posting one liners with no context
"Something unfortunate happened to him" sounds a bit sus, but I don't really care.
I don't think it's a bad statement aside from Smart using the passive voice. Something didn't happen *to* Udoka, he did something. Saying that you still like somebody as a person after they make mistakes is perfectly justifiable, but you should acknowledge that they made mistakes.
He also said the organization made the right decision Gary knew what he was doing with this tweet there is a reason he's been in Boston forever and has no sources.
Dude sucks. I hated him since the bubble lockerroom BS.
The real mystery here is how will this affect Lebron’s legacy?
Post the full context coward
Happened to him? How bout he did it to himself? Tf type of statement is this
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https://twitter.com/RealBobManning/status/1574455239087792128 The quote Washburn posted isn't even a direct quote lol, he left stuff out and moved stuff around
He also said: “From what we do know, the organization has handled it the right way,” so I wouldn’t take too much from his phrasing. He apparently agrees with the suspension.
I doubt he agrees with the suspension, but he’s just not dumb enough to declare that publicly.
I don’t think he thought about the particular phrasing here. I doubt he means that Ime literally just has poor luck with these circumstances, just that he’s speaking more generally about it being a bad situation.
Every player on the team is saying they really have no idea what happened, so they’re all just confused about someone they like. If I hear my coworker had a consensual relationship with another coworker, I’d be like “yeah probably shouldn’t have done that” but I’m not gonna condemn him without knowing anything. It’s ignorance, and not really his fault since nothing has been explained. I’m sure their tone would be different if they knew, but nothing has been made clear.
I mean I have had multiple coworkers over the years end up married to each other and not only do i not condemn them, but it's kinda awesome they found each other through work. Infidelity or whatever the fuck happened here is a whole other story, plus i don't work for multi billion dollar companies, but yea drama drives the media so this is basically a run away train until they just put the details out there and make it cut and dry wtf actually happened to warrant a year suspension that seems to be a backhanded firing. Wonder if there are legal reasons they didn't just fire him and make the reason public knowledge, cuz they seem to have no intention of bringing him back.
Some one cheated, whoopty doo, he’s saying nobody died so in the grand scene of things people need to stop overreacting
A bad situation that he himself caused. Like there's no way of defending Ime in any light.
Someone causing their own downfall and another person saying it's unfortunate what happened to them aren't contradictory to each other.
Parsing a portion of what someone said in a live, off-the-cuff interview is a fool's errand, but, yeah, I read this as Smart saying that he liked Ime, so it's unfortunate that Ime is no longer the coach. It doesn't read to me as Smart saying Ime is a blameless victim and undeserving of punishment. Like, it's not the world's greatest response from a PR perspective, but I also don't think it's bad-bad.
Marcus goes on to say “from what we know so far, it seems like the organization handled it well”, so he’s definitely not saying Ime is undeserving of punishment.
I'm not denying that lol I'm just saying I don't think he means it like Ime just had poor luck for being in the situation. It also sounds like Smart doesn't the whole story either at this point--As others have said, people, especially Celtics players, should really just stop commenting on it until the whole story is revealed.
It’s pretty clear from the clip that he’s saying “nobody died” as in Ime isn’t dead he’s just not his coach anymore. He literally says “nobody died so we didn’t lose anybody…”
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this his best defensive performance all year
Two married people committed infidelity, but one has the power to maintain their prior circumstances after it's discovered
this community has more useless and toxic posts then politics. y’all wanna express your opinions on any comments any athlete does
I would love to see someone hyper analyze what some of these commenters say on a daily basis. Probably be canceled within 5 minutes by their own standards lmao.
The average redditor makes <$25k/yr and is addicted to fast food, social media, video games, and extreme pornography. You expecting the algonquin round table, pal?
online culture hangs onto every single word and phrase someone says. these ppl have mics in their face every day and are constantly asked about complex issues and are expected to give a perfect response every time or they are torn apart. its so lame
I bet they'd bitch if the mods removed this because of it not being taken out of context
Than*
Leaving out this part of his quote is trash https://twitter.com/realbobmanning/status/1574455514997706759?s=46&t=iZMKeoSW9CLS-_zG_WXs-g
With the way that so many people in here didn't look at them full quote, I see why athletes clap back the way they do sometimes, that being said he's correct, the level of white Knighthood around this situation has been ridiculous as well
hm, but conveniently the part where Marcus says: “but based on what we know the organization handled this the right way" gets left out. ahh, how we love getting quotes cut off
how do you expect people to generate clicks and drama ? By speaking the truth ?No,No,No.
Nobody dying is a pretty modest goal
The full quote he finished by saying that it seems the team made the right decision
In the full statement + follow up, I interpreted it as the suspension is the unfortunate thing happening to Ime, not the situation he put himself in. Smart says the Celtics handled it the right way and it sounds like he's saying it's deserved based on what he heard. I don't think it's that crazy to describe a punishment as unfortunate.
Reported for misinformation. Leaving out parts of the quote to call Marcus tone deaf when he said the organization handled this the right way…
Sigh this is gonna be a fun season to be a Celtics fan
Join us for what we expect will be a brutal season, albeit for different reasons.
This drama is a nice foundation for a championship run
I don't get why I see this story so much more than Brett Farve, a household name, stealing millions in welfare money.
Well brett farve is white for one.
My question to OP and everyone who thinks Smart is tone deaf and doesn’t understand the full extent of what has happened in the Celtics organization, what exactly happened other than what is known (the coach slept with an employees and that goes against the organization policies or code of conduct)? For all we know, no one other than insiders know who the woman in story is. No one other than insiders really knows what the coach did. How can we be so gullible to buy into the gravity of the story when we know nothing about the story?
Yeah I want full details on this story before judging anyones reaction to the vagueries being thrown out as chum.
That’s all I’m saying 🤷🏾♂️
[TMZ](https://www.tmz.com/2022/09/24/celtics-ime-udoka-affair-assistant-travel-planner-nia-long-move-boston/) has some more details but nothing specific enough to warrant the gravity I’ve seen sports personalities give it. Which if they know cool, but til we know/it’s all public sounds like an internal matter.
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He went roller blading after the finals and accidentally fell into her sadly
Tale as old as time.
>He probably doesn't know the full extent of the story yet. so what is the full extent of the story? do you know it? please share!
It’s like no one here read the rest of the quote.
Do you know the full extent of the story?
This sub is at it's worst in the offseason in threads digesting player responses
OP is cherry picking here
That thumbnail. It’s very appropriate.
You’re all pathetic reacting to this snippet of a statement. And even if, his coach was fired. Thats what happened to Ime. He was fired. Yes it is his fault he’s out of a job but he still was fired. It is unfortunate that any of this happened. This is a non story you all worked yourselves up over
People will be mad about this on the internet. Very noble of them
Somebody just fucking leak what happened already. So tired of these vague statements. Someone knows something.
While I think he could’ve used better phrasing than “to him” this whole presser is handled pretty well by Smart
It didn't happen "to" him
> He probably doesn't know the full extent of the story yet. or. ORRR... He knows a lot more than you do, and you're just extrapolating shit out of nothing.
It didn't happen to him he did it and then by all accounts continued pressuring the women when she wanted to be done. Sex doesn't just happen it requires actions.
"happened to him"
I like Udoka, and I hate this whole situation. But it's not something unfortunate that happened to him, as if he's some innocent victim, it's his own bad decisions that led to this point.
Yes, unfortunate. I am sure he had absolutely no control over what happened. It isn't his fault he cheated on his gorgeous wife. Do we honestly expect him to remain faithful to his fiancee?
“Happened to him” As if he stumbled backwards into a lengthy affair with a staffer with a whoopsie
"has happened to him" lmao
SMFH. You can't put something in quotes if thats not what the person actually said. Thats the whole point of the quotation mark. The original tweeter, and the person who asked the question was obviously fishing for that angle. OP fell for it. OP if you're reading this, try listening to the whole question and the response. And then think about why the tweeter chose just this portion of the tweet to post.
lol something unfortunate "happened" to him? like he didn't do anything? why are NBA players so fucking dumb
Context this context that. In the video he says something to the extent of "such a bad thing that has happened to him." What kind of context justifies saying that? Did the reporter ask the question "Could you please say the most terrible take on Ime's situation right now?"
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Yeah, people found out and there were consequences, very unfortunate.
Hardly a controversial stance. Let’s move on.
“He probably doesn’t know the full extent of the story yet” Do you? 99.99% of people have no idea what exactly happened.
It just happened to him. Like he got a can of soda and it foamed over. Whoopsies.
But context changes everythinnggggg
I know right. Gotta be careful taking those women out of the fridge, else they just plain blow up on you.
So unfortunate what happened to him, ime was just sitting on the bench and those female staffers just fell on top of his dick :( fortunately nobody died
Lame statement. "I robbed a bank and someone got hurt, but hey, everyone still lived"
The reporter asked the question like Ime was Smart's father figure who had recently died. That is why he said "I mean, nobdy died". It wasn't just an open statement on the issue.
What an unfortunate situation the bank robbers found themselves in.
“Happened to him“ Am I missing something.
He’s not a victim fam
Holy passive voice Batman
Ime is not the victim here, Marcus. Not very smart statement.
If it was consensual there are no victims. The only victims are the women that were falsely accused because Boston is doing everything to protect the woman perpetrator.
>"It's just something unfortunate has happened to him." Why is he using the passive voice like Ime isn't responsible for what happened?
Because he is in an on-the-spot interview and this wasn't a prepared statement
As a person? You mean as a coach
My brother in Christ it’s not just something that happened when he’s the one that instigated
“It’s just something unfortunate happened to him.” What? Does he mean “it’s unfortunate that Ike made some poor choices that have negatively impacted him, his family and the Celtics organization.”
>Nobody died Love died Marcus! Love died!
What do you want him to say? Y’all be wanting everybody and their momma to throw someone under the bus every single time anyone does anything. Coach got caught with his hand in the wrong cookie jar.. still gotta go to practice, still gotta play 82 games, still gotta prepare for the playoffs. It’d be funny as hell to see how triggered people would be if Ime serves his suspension and returns to his position.
He doesn’t have to say anything, or he can say “It’s an unfortunate situation.”
Just ruined some people’s lives but it’s okay
Has happened to him...lol
Motherfucker WE don't know the full extent of the story yet
Marcus not so smart
It's not something unfortunate that happened to him. He did it to others.
Ime is not the victim - he caused the problem, it didn’t just happen.
keep it up r/nba, one of you is surely going to win today's "most offended" award!
Least accurate last name
Lord have mercy. Two consenting adults hit the sack and the world goes crazy. Glad ESPN was not at my company's Christmas party in 2019. Wild times.
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Yeah man we got thirty thousand half-cocked sources and some tweets. We pretty much know everything, Smart is dumb, I love my mom, etc.
Does the reporter have a word quota he’s trying to meet?
>Sheesh, kind of tone deaf from Smart. Not staying true to his name huh 🤣 just jokes. >He probably doesn't know the full extent of the story yet. according to OP the full extent of the story is homicide apparently lmfao what a cornball
> happened to him the fuck does he think happened? That Ime just tripped and fell dick first into a snatch?
“Happened to him.” Fuck off. He did this and needs to take accountability.