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"What it says about Sam is that he's been pretty good with his asset management," the second executive said. "If you start to trace the asset trees of the things he's done, there aren't very many dead ends. He's going to try to use every piece that he can -- every aspect of the trade, every trade exception, every draft pick, every little thing -- and he's going to try to make something out of it. He has always had a vision, and he's always been decisive." The executive added, "People would say it's obvious when he took over the Sonics to trade Ray Allen and Rashard Lewis and do a rebuild, but at the time it was not obvious. They were only one year removed from having a pretty good team, and [Allen and Lewis] were regarded as good players and the rebuild was regarded as uncertain."
Jim Owczarski: 🚨AJ Green sets the #Bucks single-season record for made 3-pointers, knocking down a 28-footer from Cormac Ryan.🚨
?NBA?: A CAREER NIGHT FOR AJ GREEN ?? 35 PTS (career-high) 5 REB 4 AST 2 STL 11 3PM (new Bucks franchise record) The previous record for most 3PM in a game by a Buck was 10, set by Damian Lillard (Nov. 2, 2024), and Ray Allen (Apr. 14, 2002).
Manu Ginobili on losing 2013 Finals: That was the worst moment of my career. In other words, the worst moment was two days before that. Two days before that game, game number six, we are winning by three points. 15 seconds left. Q. The famous Ray Allen three-pointer. Ginobili: Well, LeBron hits a three-pointer... I don't think he'll get within two. Well, I don't know. The thing is, something happens that never happens before, and you just see that the party was getting ready to celebrate our championship, and then everything starts to be put away and we have to go back to game seven. Match seven, two whole days without sleep. In other words, I didn't sleep from the sixth to the seventh.
Michael Redd: This will shock you, but let's talk about it. Someone recently asked me which, out my dozen NBA season, was my favorite. Most of you are probably thinking some time between 2003 and 2008, some time between becoming the unquestioned No, 1 option for Milwaukee, making an All-Star game, and winning a Gold medal. That's not it, though. My fave season, the one I think back to the most, is my rookie season! Yeah, I barely played in games that season. The only treatment I needed that season was for bench splinters. So...why? Well, first off, I valued not playing. I valued learning from proven pros like Ray Allen, Glenn Robinson, Sam Cassell, Lindsey Hunter, Tim Thomas and, of course, Coach Karl. Getting to practice with them, getting a courtside seat to see them, made me a better player. I wanted to play, but I was a second round pick on a stacked roster. I took all I could out of that season.
This will shock you, but let's talk about it.
— Michael Redd (@MichaelRedd_) March 26, 2026
Someone recently asked me which, out my dozen NBA season, was my favorite.
Most of you are probably thinking some time between 2003 and 2008, some time between becoming the unquestioned No, 1 option for Milwaukee, making an All-Star… pic.twitter.com/aZOMkNtkO3
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NBA Courtside: Paul Pierce talking about Old School vs New Era defense: “Well, I think we had more guys that ran through the 30 screens then than now and you had to fight through those screens. I mean, I remember, you know, Ray Allen, Reggie Miller, Rip Hamilton. I think you had a number of guys you had to chase. Like Steph in this era is pretty much the only one. It was way more pin downs back then. Now it’s kind of like, oh, you just switch now. Where we fought through the screens like you ain’t no because the one reason we had to fight through the screens because if you switch, we punish the switch in the post, not in the perimeter. We punish the switch. Get in the block. Get down there. I mean, so it was a difference. So I don’t know. Like I think we’d be just as good defensively.” (Via @NFGShow )
Paul Pierce talking about Old School vs New Era defense:
— NBA Courtside (@NBA__Courtside) February 27, 2026
“Well, I think we had more guys that ran through the 30 screens then than now and you had to fight through those screens. I mean, I remember, you know, Ray Allen, Reggie Miller, Rip Hamilton. I think you had a number of… https://t.co/aPOz8zFS7S pic.twitter.com/5lIEW3PCVx
In Boston, Allen is an icon, though not everyone has forgiven him for leaving the Celtics as a free agent in 2012. But on this mid-November Friday night, he is first and foremost a father, rooting for his son. Before returning to pregame preparation, Walter Ray Allen III — known, like his father, as Ray — walks over to wrap his dad in a hug.
It’s mostly a coincidence that the younger Allen, a junior guard at Emerson, landed at a college in downtown Boston, across the street from Boston Common. Though he plays his home games in the shadow of TD Garden, one mile from the Celtics’ arena, his Division III program is a far cry from the big leagues, illustrated by the attendance of 293 for the 71-67 win against Western Connecticut. He is forging his own basketball journey, one he calls an “unorthodox path.” After playing for his father at Gulliver Prep, a high school in Pinecrest, Fla., he started his college career as a preferred walk-on at Rhode Island before transferring to Emerson before the start of his sophomore season.
Introductions aren’t always simple for a college student named Ray Allen. Is that your name? Really? So your name’s Ray Allen? And you live in Boston? “Yes,” Allen will say. “And that’s my dad.”
It’s a good conversation starter. But with such a recognizable name, Allen can’t find much anonymity on the court. “Everyone (wants) to go at him like, ‘I can put that notch in my belt because I took down Ray Allen’s kid,’” Emerson coach Bill Curley said. “The fact that he’s stuck with this and is still competing, it says a lot about how strong and tough he is. A lot of other kids would just (decide), ‘I’m going to go do something else.’” Allen has stayed with it. And though he isn’t the shooter his father is (“nobody is,” he says), teammate Brendan Taylor said Allen is “one of our best defenders.”
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Despite his own Hall of Fame career, the elder Ray Allen never wanted to push basketball on his sons. “That has never been my mission,” he said. “All my dreams have already come true.” Instead, he wants to help his children achieve their dreams. That was why early in the younger Allen’s high school tenure, his father asked him what he wanted from the game. Before then, the younger Allen hadn’t expressed much interest in maximizing his basketball talent. He said he didn’t start pushing himself until he was in the eighth grade and his younger brother, Walker, eclipsed him as a basketball player. Ray III calls Walker, who now plays at The Hotchkiss School, “a basketball savant.” “And not just because he’s my brother,” he said. “He was a sixth-grader beating on me. I’m bigger than him, but he has a flashier game. So, I’m like, ‘I’ve got to get all that.’”
Vince Carter: You’ll be a Hall of Famer. When your time comes, who will be sitting up there with you? Have you thought about that? Stephen Curry: I actually haven't. I mean, you, Steve Nash, Reggie Miller, and Ray Allen are like the names that I think off top. Carter: Those are some of the ones I actually said. Curry: Those are my guys, it's crazy to even say out loud.
Paul Pierce: Ray Allen was the first to go. That's when he went to Miami. Me and KG was a little older and we wasn't able to carry a team night in and night out anymore. We could have done some things a little differently to extend our run if we had have made the right trades or draft with some younger guys. But we saw the writing on the wall toward the end cuz I think we got we got handled by the Knicks. That was our last series together in the first round, we put up a little fight, but the writing was on the wall all year and we was dealing with injuries. Guys was getting older and Danny Ainge was very honest about the whole process with it. He was like, "If I got to make some moves, I will, but I won't just send you anywhere. It'll be something we'll talk about if there's this opportunity. So, we was just like, all right what's the deal after the season? We talked middle of the season. It's like, I got a deal, I can send y'all to Brooklyn. You got a young core over there with D-Will and Joe Johnson. I was like, man, that's man, K, we could probably win with that.
“Get more elevation,” McBride remembered Allen telling him. “He said, ‘In the 15 minutes pregame, I work out hard. You can’t flip it on and off.’ Those type of things stick with me. Anytime he shoots the ball, whether it’s for fun, he was always locked in. And those were always the things I feel like help me more because I’m more locked in and focused on my jumper.”