Al Horford’s Sister, Anna Horford, Pulls a ‘Matt Barnes’ and Retracts Her Wild Ime Udoka Take

Anna Horford takes to Twitter to apologize for her immediate reaction to the Ime Udoka news, but doesn’t take back her “career” angle.

Ime Udoka has been in the NBA spotlight for a week now and it’s understandable why. As a first-year head coach, he not only turned around a Boston Celtics team that was under .500 in December, he led them to the NBA Finals. Jayson Tatum and company were 2 wins away from being NBA champions.

Entering the 2022-23 NBA campaign, the Celts were listed as the favorites to repeat as Eastern Conference champions. Unfortunately for them, their head coach was found to be having an extramarital affair with a Celtics staffer.

Ime Udoka reportedly had an affair with the wife of a Celtics senior vice president. Before this information was released, several talking heads within the NBA space denounced the reports surrounding the case, questioning why it is only when a black man is part of a negative story that it is aired publicly.

Al Horford’s sister, Anna Horford, was one of the first to bring the breed into the picture while on Twitter.

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Anna Horford talks about the Ime Udoka situation.

Anna Horford initially tweeted her frustrations about the Ime Udoka situation when it first happened. In now-deleted tweets, she essentially claimed that this wouldn’t have aired so quickly and publicly if he wasn’t a black man.

However, after new details emerged about what really transpired between the two sides, Horford retracted his statements in a tweet thread. Matt Barnes did something similar when he posted a video apologizing for reacting prematurely to the first wave of news.

I just want to say that my comments on Ime last week were based on what I thought I knew at the time. When someone is given new information, her opinion will often change/develop. I was initially sensitive to comments asking for his head for this reason:

— Anna Horford (@AnnaHorford) September 29, 2022

However, what caught most people’s attention was that she said she would not apologize for mentioning race. Like Stephen A. Smith and Taylor Rooks, Anna believes that race has something to do with this whole situation.

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