The Boston Celtics employee whose affair with head coach Ime Udoka led to his suspension can finally be revealed.
The female employee is team service manager Kathleen Nimmo Lynch, 34, a married mother-of-three, DailyMail.com can disclose. The Celtics have not identified the woman Udoka was involved with, but Lynch’s name had been leaked online.
A source familiar with the investigation told DailyMail.com that the affair was consensual, short lived, and had ended by the time investigators got involved.
Lynch has longstanding personal ties with the team’s legendary former player Danny Ainge, who was the team’s executive director of basketball operations before leaving the franchise last year.
Ainge, 63, a fellow devout Mormon, helped her land her job.
A source familiar with the investigation told DailyMail.com that Ainge learned early in the summer that the Celtics had initiated an investigation into Udoka’s relationship with Lynch, but he did not intervene in the investigation or decision to suspend the coach.
The source added, however, that Ainge was deeply disappointed by the affair, especially given the fact they have families. Lynch has known Ainge and his family for well over a decade, sharing a hometown, college and workplace with the basketball hero.
Ainge left the Celtics last year and has taken over as head of basketball operations for the Utah Jazz, long before news of the affair went public and resulted in last month’s season-long suspension.
‘The relationship to the Ainge family or where she went to school or her religious affiliation had nothing to do with the severity of the punishment,’ the source said.
‘The good thing is that everyone regrets what happened and is taking responsibility, and humbled, and trying to fight for their families and lives back,’ the source said.
Things don’t look good for Udoka, who has been banned from the NBA for a year. Unfortunately for him, more and more rumours are becoming public as well. It’s been suggested that he has a long history of sleeping with multiple woman everywhere he’s coached.
Nia Long has clearly been affected by events over the past week. She recently shared a poignant post on social media about mental health. One of the various messages she posted online stated: “Learn to distinguish who deserves an explanation, who deserves one answer, and who deserves absolutely nothing” .
Kathleen is reportedly 34 and married. She is also a mother of three. Lynch worked as Boston Celtics’ service manager.
Daily Mail also reported that Kathleen is a friend of Danny Ainge. Both are devout Mormons and thus established familiarity.
Ainge is a former Boston Celtics guard. He played 14 seasons in the league and then coached the Suns before joining Celtics management.
So, safe to say, Ainge is pretty well connected in Boston and should not have had any problem getting Lynch a job.
Kathleen mostly took on work as the team’s liaison. Which mostly involved arranging travel, booking hotels, and getting people game tickets.
There is a high chance that Lynch also arranged for Nia Long’s travel. TMZ had earlier reported how Ime Udoka made Long move to Boston two weeks before the reveal. Kathleen was likely in charge of that too.
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