Boston Celtics have gone from NBA championship favorites to a team in disarray almost overnight

Ime Udoka's suspension has pulled the rug out from beneath the entire organization

The Boston Celtics should be flying high heading into the 2022-23 season. After finishing two wins shy of last year's championship, they've been regarded as the odds-on favorite to win the 2023 title all summer. Now, just as training camp is about to start, they've become a team in disarray. 

Ime Udoka's yearlong suspension for having what has been reported to be an improper intimate, consensual relationship with a female Celtics staff member -- Celtics majority owner Wyc Grousbeck called it on Friday "a volume of violations" -- has pulled the rug out from beneath the entire organization. 

There's been a slow drip of bad news for the Celtics over the past three weeks. Newly acquired Danilo Gallinari tore his ACL. On Friday, the team announced that Robert Williams III had a second surgery on his left knee that will sideline him for eight to 12 weeks, which means he could be out past Christmas.