Bill Russel, Doc Rivers, Satch Sanders, K.C. Jones, and M.L. Carr. What do these five individuals have in common? They’re all African Americans that coached the Boston Celtics. Well, according to braindead Jay Williams who played one season in the NBA, Ime Udoka is the first black Celtics head coach.
The ESPN hoops analyst Williams pulled off the not one but two absolute coward moves yesterday. Yesterday at 3:31 p.m., Williams fired off what felt like a passive aggressive tweet towards the city of Boston. Below is a screenshot of the since deleted post.
Now, it may look like an innocent tweet on the surface if you’re not an NBA fan but it’s blasphemous that an NBA “analyst” had the balls to send this off.
For a little bit of background, the city of Boston has been labeled as “racist” due to some past events that MAY have occurred. On May 1st, 2017, Orioles outfielder Adam Jones claimed that a spectator yelled the n-word from the bleachers.
Here’s the odd part. No one in the stands could corroborate the story, there was no video or photos of the person who did this, and if you have ever been to Fenway and sat in the bleachers, you know that you’re elbow to elbow with the stranger next to you and can hear into their conversations very clearly. There is a zero percent chance that happened.
In 2020, Torii Hunter who played outfield for the Twins, Tigers, and Angles through his career claimed on the Greg Hill Show on WEEI that he had a no trade clause to Boston. Why you may ask. It’s because Hunter claimed that in one appearance at Fenway, a group of children chanted the n-word at him as parents laughed. I do not believe this for a second. How is there no photos or videos of this occurring if they were chanting it and why is there no record of these kids being booted from Fenway?
With that being said, Williams is taking a shot at the city of Boston by saying that Udoka is the first black head coaching hire in Celtics history. Williams lobbying that take is bad but what he did next was even worse.
Williams took backlash from every corner of the internet. Clay Travis of OutKick, Big Cat from Barstool Sports, and one of the medias black sheep Jason Whitlock dunked on Williams.
What happened next is wild. Williams tweeted out that his account was hacked. This lie is almost as big as the one that Torii Hunter told on the radio. I actually can’t believe that Williams did this. If he had tweeted out that Boston was racist and stuck to his guns, I wouldn’t like it, but I would have more respect for him than how he is hiding behind a made up “hacker”.
If you thought social media was having a field day with his initial tweet, the backlash increased and it was well deserved.
Tweets like this from ESPN analysts are part of the reason that the networks viewers have gone down by millions. In 2013, ESPN was averaging 99 million subscribers. Since then, it has dropped by 16 million. In 2019, the subscriber number sat at 83 million.