Ray Allen talks return to Boston

For the first time since walking away in the off-season, Ray Allen will return to Boston to face the Celtics.  The Celtics' faithful felt betrayed by Allen's departure and recently Allen spoke of returning to the city where he's won his only NBA championship to date.  

"I don't feel any different," Allen said. "Obviously it's a lot of people that I look forward to seeing. I go in with a mentality of thinking about what we can do better on the road, like how we can improve some of the things that we need to improve on. I try to set the emotional side of it to the side because we don't look at one game any greater than the next."

"My sentiment toward them doesn't change regardless of how they respond toward me," Allen said. "I have great memories. I've played in some big games, won some big games. We've had some tough moments. I'll always cherish those moments. Regardless of how they respond to me, it won't change how I feel."

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Rivers talks Allen....again

It seems as if the bad blood will not end anytime soon.  Celtics Head Coach Doc Rivers again addressed Ray Allen leaving the Celtics for the Miami Heat when he was asked by a reporter if he'd gotten over the departure.

“I’ll always be disappointed with that because of the way it went down. But it is what it is, so I’m over it, but, you know, you’re always disappointed about stuff. But as far as our team, I moved on the next day....We were trying to build our team. We already had Jason Terry; we knew that. So my next move was Courtney (Lee).”

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Ray Allen comes clean about leaving Boston

From WMEN in Miami (via SRI):

How did you deal with all the negativity of you leaving Boston because you chose to come here?

‘Well it was just really a shame because on one hand you could say so many great things about me as a player and my impact on the floor, and not only on the floor but off the floor, like we did so many great things in the community — not only as a team, but as individuals — and that was my community and I support it as much as I could. We had some foundation initiatives that we still continue to do, so that doesn’t change me. It was a business decision and the team put me in the position where we had to move. We had to go. Miami was a better choice for us based on what the team was doing, so it wasn’t, don’t boo me, boo the team in a sense. Now it’s out of my control. … When this contract situation came down, everybody in my circle — mom, family, brother, sister, friends from college, people who watched me since I was in high school and since I was in college — nobody wanted me to resign in that situation because they thought, ‘There [is] so much left in you and this team isn’t taking care of you or treating you right.’ That’s the way I felt and it was like, if you are going to come and not put out a good contract on the table then, hey, we gotta think about going somewhere else.’”

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Rondo talks Allen departure

When Ray Allen left the Boston Celtics to join the NBA Champion Miami Heat, many fans blamed Celtics point guard Rajon Rondo after reports surfaced that there was friction between the two during last season.  While speaking to the media recently, Rondo finally addressed the rumors for the first time since the Allen signing in July.

‘People act like because me and Ray didn’t get along or they think me and Ray didn’t get along that I’m a bad person or he’s a bad person,’ Rondo said. ‘No. It’s just life. If you look at your job, everyone doesn’t always get along with every co-worker they work with. It’s just part of life. People are blowing the Ray thing out of proportion. We had some words, but other than that it was no big deal. There were so many rumors like I was looking Ray off. Why would I look Ray off? That doesn’t make sense. He’s the best shooter, so why would I look him off? People can see it how they want to. They can talk to Ray. But from my standpoint, he made his decision. I don’t know why he made the decision, but he made the decision. I don’t think it had anything to do with me.’

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