It appeared Jay Williams didn't do his homework before tweeting about the Celticshiring Ime Udoka.The ESPN analyst quickly found himself in hot water with a tweet from his verified account thatclaimed Udoka was "the first head coach of color" for the franchise.Here is thesince-deleted tweet: Of course, Udoka is not the first head coach of
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