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An ugly side of social media surfaced in the Ime Udoka controversy

I swear, people should have to pass some sort of empathy or fundamental human decency test before they’re permitted to use the Internet.

The basketball fallout from the suspension of Celtics coach Ime Udoka is disappointing, sure. It’s impossible to resist wondering, as fans, whether the team’s championship window, which opened in June, is already closing.

But the potential effects on the quest for Banner 18 are minor compared with the infuriating way that this story developed, and how the predictable tsunami of cruel conjecture and salacious speculation in the usual social-media cesspools affected women employed by or affiliated with the franchise.