Ray was a FA bottom line, he went to a team where he could afford to pace himself for the playoffs and knows at this stage of his career he is a role player, it was a smart business decision on his part. It doesn't mater what anyone else thinks of Ray Allen but Ray Allen.
It was a smart business decision. I suppose what I don't understand is this: Putting aside the Celtics' front office and putting the aside the fans, how do you tell Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett that you're breaking up the band, and joining your most hated rivals?
I've just never wrapped my head around it. Did he not like Pierce and Garnett? I thought he did. Was his rumored bad relationship with Rondo
so bad that he couldn't be in the same locker room with him? The explanation that "the Celtics" did him wrong by dangling him in trade talks just doesn't cut it. He didn't owe anything to me as a fan. But, even though the NBA is a business, one player owes his colleagues an explanation, you would think. From PP's and KG's comments, they didn't feel like they really got one. We see from the Clippers situation that players can band together even when they don't like what ownership or management does. There was a fracture here. Maybe it was just that Ray felt disrespected and his anger with the front office outweighed his loyalty to his teammates (and the team's late but generous contract offer). I suppose that can happen. (I do think the "butthurt" insults being thrown at Celtics fans are pretty funny considering we're talking about a player actually leaving a team because he felt slighted.)
Anyway, it's spilled milk. I'm happy for Ray's continued success, and I'm happy that he's actually contributing to the Heat's success rather than being a lame ring-chaser like Payton and Malone on the Lakers. I can't say I like the Heat but his success is good for the Huskies.
