Are we (finally) going to witness the end of the bickering between Ray Allen and his former Celtics teammates? The Boston Globe reports that the second most prolific 3-point shooter in history has been invited to Kevin Garnett’s jersey retirement ceremony, which is being held on Sunday. The idea being to bring together all the members of the 2008 champion team around the “Big Ticket”.
The arrival of the ex-back could be interpreted as a sign of appeasement when we know the liabilities between his former teammates, in particular Kevin Garnett, and him. We recall that the former Wolves player never supported his former teammate leaving Boston in 2012 to join the sworn enemy of the time, the Heat. To the point of not even mentioning his name when he entered the “Hall of Fame”.
This bickering seemed to have experienced a new episode at the last All-Star game, during the introduction of the 75 best players in history, including members of the “Big Three” of the Celtics 2008. While Ray Allen saluted LeBron James , Paul Pierce and especially Kevin Garnett seemed to ignore it. The image had gone around the web.
However, the three men had been reunited at another point in the event for a joint photo. Kevin Garnett told his former racquet partner, Kendrick Perkinsthat the reunion at that moment had taken place in a way that could not be more natural…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq1jLI0rei4
