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Dillon Mitchell is fighting for his spot in the NBA. He’s a second-round pick on a two-way deal, so nothing is guaranteed. Every day, he just pulls his number 20 over his head, hits the practice floor, and hopes he makes enough progress to build on tomorrow. Even little steps will get him closer to taking the floor for the Boston Celtics someday. One day, a letter showed up for him. It came from another number 20. “Ray Allen,” Mitchell told Celtics On SI, with a broad smile and the inflection of someone who just won something. “I've always just been a Ray Allen guy. And then obviously now I'm with the Celtics … So it meant a lot.”
The letter was part of an initiative spearheaded by Celtics assistant Matt Reynolds. It’s called “The Legends Project,” and it’s aimed at connecting current Celtics with 80 years of team history. “We just don’t want to take for granted how special this place is,” Reynolds told Celtics On SI. “It’s been really cool to see Paul Pierce and Ray Allen back around the organization so early into the season. I just wanted to tap into these guys being part of this brotherhood of 500 people-plus … and give these guys some context as to the environment that they're a part of now.”
Ray Allen: The ICC’s arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu is a serious moment and a reminder that accountability under international law cannot depend on power, politics or position. The warrant alleges responsibility for war crimes and crimes against humanity, including starvation as a method of warfare, murder and persecution. trump and hegseth are next! Whatever our political views, the protection of innocent civilians and respect for international law should be principles we all should agree on. No leader should be above accountability. No civilian life should be treated as expendable. And justice should apply equally to all. “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice” -MLK
Glen Davis: "When I think about it now, where I was so early in my career, I took it for granted in a way. I didn't understand the situation I was in, the opportunity that I truly really had, and just being able to be a part of history at that moment. I remember I had the ball at the end of the game and I just threw it in the air like I didn't care. That's memorabilia. You got to keep that ball. And now just being in a situation and seeing the effect a championship has to fans, it's a great feeling. And then I learned so much, not just basketball, but just life lessons. You got Kevin Garnett, you got Ray Allen, you got Paul Pierce. You got all those different guys that do it differently in their way. So to be able to see Ticket, to be able to see Ray, and Paul be special in their own way was pretty cool."
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Heat Central: Draymond Green doesn’t like people thinking the Heat got the 2018 version of Klay Thompson 👀 “I don’t like how everybody is trying to act like ‘oh it’s Klay Thompson! Klay to the Heat!’ Like this is Klay from 2018. The reason I don’t like it is because I feel like everybody is trying to set Klay up for failure. I’m going to say it right here right now. Let’s stop acting like it’s 2017 Klay going to Miami. I wish sports media would speak on it more like when Ray Allen went to Miami. Don’t try to set my brother up like you getting the 2018 version so when you don’t, you can bash him. That’s bullsh*t. He’s going into year 16. Yes he’s going to provide shooting…. Let’s look at him like Ray going to Miami, back when sports media was a good thing.”
Draymond Green Show: Draymond reacts to fans saying Klay Thompson couldn't be a number 1 option & Klay signing with the Heat "You mean to tell me if Klay Thompson left the Warriors, he couldn't be a number 1 option but Reggie Miller could?... Highly likely that after the 2019 playoffs, Klay Thompson was gonna leave the Warriors and go be a number 1 option somewhere, highly f**king likely and then he got hurt...When they said 'Klay going to Miami' and I was like 'oh that Heat culture thing' I don't know how that's gonna work... let's stop acting like 2017 Klay is going to Miami... I wish sports media would speak to it more like when Ray Allen went to Miami."
Heat Central: Klay Thompson says he LOVES the 2013 Ray Allen comparison: “Of course I like those comparisons. I love Ray Allen. Are you kidding me? Him and Reggie were the blueprint for my whole off ball formula. — it gives me chills I’m even in the same sentence as Ray because if you told me this my rookie season, I would’ve never believed you. Ray has one of the greatest shots in history and I still practice that back pedal drill he did in game 6 of 2013. I love those comparisons.” (Via ESPN South Florida)
Ray Allen: ‘One of the things that I'm devastated about is all the big men that don't have a place in the game anymore. It used to be amazing to watch guys score. We used to throw the ball in the block and guys could score or you got to be a great passer out of the post. Two-man game. Like, it's arguable who the best power forward of all time is. A lot of people will say Tim Duncan. We'll never see another Tim Duncan again the way the game is played right now because we've taken that from the big players, the big guys, because we won't allow, coaches aren't playing this throw the ball in and out. I like shooting threes and that was something I I like driving to the hole. I love pick and roll. I love posting up. So I would assume or I would think that it will revert back at some point because there's going to be some bigs that come along where you got to just because they're too good.’
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Ray Allen: 'What's happened is we've lost the mid-range game and I hear coaches yelling no mid-range shots. And then we've lost post-up players. Bigs don't even have a place in the game anymore. That to me is the tragedy because now what we do is we have these guys that work in basketball offices that are analytic guys that sit here and say why we need to shoot more threes than twos. And they just they convince the upper management and everybody else that guys that never played the game, you should be shooting more threes than twos. And I just think, and here's the thing, here's the proof. Okay, so Golden State won, they shoot a lot of threes and Boston won and they shot a lot of threes and they lost because they shot a lot of threes as well. But this past year, look at Oklahoma City and Indiana. Both had guys that could shoot threes because you need three-point shooters out there and you set the game up, but they were killing on pick and roll in the mid-range. Yes. So when I came in the game, you had some incredible pick and roll players. You had some incredible mid-range guys. It was it was insane. You could learn so much from these these dudes and the game is just we've lost that. And that's an art.'
Heat Central: Bobby Portis on being a Heat fan his whole life, and conversations he had with Giannis about coming to Miami: “I’ve been a Heatle. I’ve been rocking with the Heat since the Mavericks and the Spurs in the finals. Ray Allen in the corner, Chris Bosh offensive rebound, pass out to the corner, bow! Everybody thought it was over with the ropes out. The conversations I had with Giannis has just always been about winning. Where can we go to win? How can we get another championship? Once you guys talk to him at 3 you’ll understand all he cares about is winning.”
Ray Allen: "History will teach you things that you look back, because now you can't, like right now they're trying to say the January 6th didn't happen, it was a peaceful protest. And everybody's litigating it, but in 10 years from now you look back and be like, those people stormed the Capitol. You can't, this is what it is. We got the footage, and now the talking heads can't sit back and try to convince us that we seen something different. Because history, when we look back, it compiles everything that took place, and it says this is who Trump was. He was a racist, he was a narcissist, he was a misogynist, he was a megalomaniac, he wanted to be a dictator. All these things that he is aren't good for America, and specifically aren't good for Black people."
Ray Allen: "I was always an inquisitive mind. I moved, when I moved to South Carolina, I was 13. I walked into history class, and you know, I lived in England, I lived in California, I lived in Germany, and so I was about the world. What you learn is the American way is not the it's not the best way, it's just a way. And I remember in the eighth grade, I walk into the class, and first time I get the textbook, and you know, you got natural history, you got US history, you got world history. The book was, said South Carolina. And so I was like, so we're the history in the eighth grade was just nothing but South Carolina. How short-sighted or small-minded could you be? So we're going to do history all year on one state."