To be fair, this actually affects an actual sports team and a favorite for a title, while what Favre did is tangentially sports related.
Sounds like a consensual office relationship to me, these happen everywhere, all the time. Why is this an offense or against team guidelines? Phil Jackson smashed Jeannie Buss while she employed him. I guess maybe it shows lack of judgment on Udoka's part, but that doesn't really mean anything these days when you can't even say a woman isn't a man anymore. This is all so arbitrary, why is some behavior acceptable and others arent? If Udoka was gay and had the same relationship and they got married the Celtics and the NBA would celebrate it.
Curious as to whether the code of conduct at the organization was violated... or whether directives to cease and desist were delivered. If the GM or owner told the coach to stop, and he didn't, then that's a larger problem. Bottom line is that the coach is dumb to put himself in this situation.
Brian Windhorst: "[The Boston Celtics] have already started focusing on their new interim head coach Joe Mazzulla. It is pretty unprecedented here because Mazzulla not only has never been NBA coach before, he's never sat in front of the bench in the NBA before. That being said, they really like him"
It's anybodies business because he broke a rule, and he will be suspended from a team that is favorite for the NBA title. These are corporations and very public corporations, you don't get to have a private when you sign up. It sounds like he ****ed the bosses' wife, so yeah, it's a bit different than two consenting adults.
For those confused about why the Celtics would punish Udoka for sleeping with a consenting adult employee and why the Celtics would have some specific rules regarding interpersonal relationship between employees. It's about sexual harrisment and the power balance between Udoka and the staffer. The Celtics organization will be liable in a lawsuit IF this consensual relationship later becomes a complaint about inappropriate workplace behavior and a powerful person of authority taking advantage of a staffer.
Not sure if it falls under the NBA's jurisdiction or some Massachusetts state law jurisdiction, but how does the suspension of Udoka (if that's all the punishment turns out to be) prevent either Udoka or the woman from coming out and filing a lawsuit, after the fact? By no means am I an expert on relationships within the workplace or anything like that, but couldn't the Celtics have just handled this in-house? Make Udoka or the staffer sign some sort of NDA or something, so that this never blows back on the Celtics' org? Aside from the parties involved and perhaps the people closest to them, no one knew about this until the Celtics decided to suspend Udoka.
Power imbalance between consenting adults is a non-issue to me, but if Udoka smashed a married woman on staff then damn right he should be fired.
Some of the women were direct reports of mine. He would constantly override career advancement recommendations from all his direct reports for the employees they supervise. Every single time it was women he spoke highly inappropriate with around the office. If Udoko had control over her career or pay, banging her especially since he is married (blackmail prone) is a huge no no. Any managerial course will tell you to avoid this.
