Roy was fired after an allegation that he was part of a recruiting push involving an NBA agent that offered a student cash, a car and an apartment if he transferred to the Seattle school.<\/p>\n
Roy, 41, denied the allegation in a letter to Seattle Public Schools last fall but was nonetheless fired two days later.<\/p>\n
The Times article included a response from Roy:<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve never recruited a kid to play at Garfield High School,\u201d Roy said in an email last week to The Seattle Times.<\/p>\n
In comments exchanged by text message with Blazer\u2019s Edge, Roy elaborated further, stating the Times article did not include statements from the mother of the player at the center of the allegations.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe kid\u2019s mother responded to Seattle school\u2019s investigator and said it was false. And no one from my staff ever contacted her or her son,\u201d Roy said. \u201cThe paper didn\u2019t mention that. And the report the investigator wrote failed to mention that also.\u201d<\/p>\n
No official finding has been made by Seattle Public Schools, the Metro League or the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association (WIAA). The WIAA Executive Board will hear the allegations later this month.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would like to coach again. And I am considering legal action against the district,\u201d Roy said.<\/p>\n
The former Portland two guard began coaching in 2016 at Nathan Hale High School, where his team went undefeated and won the Washington state title. That year, Roy was named Naismith National High School Coach of the Year. Roy went on to coach at Garfield, his alma mater. The school retired his number, and a portrait of him is painted on the wall. Garfield teams he coached won state titles in 2018, 2020 and 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roy was fired after an allegation that he was part of a recruiting push involving an NBA agent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3784],"tags":[7,601,37660,6,687,471,3967,1617],"class_list":{"0":"post-672048","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-portland-trail-blazers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-blazers","10":"tag-blazers-news","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-portland","13":"tag-portland-trail-blazers","14":"tag-portlandtrailblazers","15":"tag-trail-blazers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116271085328669527","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}