Ime Udoka reflects on Celtics exit: 'Job not finished'

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BOSTON -- Ime Udoka said before coaching his first game in Boston since being suspended for the 2022-23 season for multiple violations of team rules, and ultimately being removed as the Celtics' head coach, that he never finished the job he was hired to do, and that he let the people he was working with down.

"Job not finished," Udoka said, when asked how he looks back on that season, and his subsequent removal from the job, prior to coaching the Houston Rockets against Boston here at TD Garden Saturday night. "The relationships you build, and the people you impact. So that'd be the biggest thing [I think about].

"[I] formed a lot of relationships within a year,…