LeBron Couldn’t Believe Jay Williams Said Celtics Finally Hired A Head Coach of Color (TWEET)

It appeared Jay Williams didn’t do his homework before tweeting about the Celtics hiring Ime Udoka.

The ESPN analyst has been trending all day after he claimed Udoka was “the first head coach of color” for the franchise. The Celtics were the first NBA franchise to hire a non-white coach when they named Bill Russell a player-coach on April 16, 1966.

WOW Jay Williams. FIRST??? Did you forget about the 5 NBA championship teams coached by Bill Russell, KC Jones, & Doc Rivers?

Tom "Satch" Sanders has also coached the C's & ML Carr was both a coach & GM.

No wonder why non-C's fans are so clueless about Boston's history pic.twitter.com/eb4vl9Imff

— CelticsLife.com (@celticslife) June 23, 2021

More recently, Doc Rivers led the Celtics to an NBA title during his decade-long run in charge of the franchise.

LeBron James was among that group that wondered if Williams’ tweet was photoshopped because of how insane it was.

“Has to be right!?!? It better be,” James tweeted in response to another user.

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Has to be right!?!? It better be ???

— LeBron James (@KingJames) June 23, 2021

We now know it wasn’t photoshopped, because Williams claimed a hacker got into his account and actually sent it out.

Took zero responsibility….https://t.co/M1jeNgSnaa

— TPS (@TotalProSports) June 24, 2021