Ray Allen wasn't present when certain members of the 2007-08 Celtics reunited in May to celebrate the NBA championship they won that season. Not because of a scheduling conflict, but because he wasn't invited.
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Some Celtics felt betrayed when Allen took less money to join the rival Heat in 2012 and later revealed in an interview with the Miami Herald that he didn't see eye-to-eye with the players in Boston, specifically Rajon Rondo.
Allen, as well as Paul Pierce, now hope the stars from the 2008 championship team including Rondo, Kevin Garnett and Glen Davis can reconcile their differences.
"I haven't said anything negative about those guys in the five or six years since I've been gone," Allen told Tencent's Lisa Hsu in an interview published Monday. "It seemed like it was a year or two ago. So I don't have any ill will."
Allen's ego apparently came before the team when he came to Boston in 2007. Paul Pierce said in a 2015 interview with ESPN that Allen had "a weird relationship" with his Celtics teammates.
“I know eventually it’s gonna smooth over,” Pierce told Boston.com earlier this year. “We’ll all sit down one day, probably have a cigar, glass of wine and talk about it. Hopefully sometime in the near future. You know I’m hoping.”
The rift among teammates carried over into a recent interview aired on TNT where Garnett, Pierce, Rondo, and Davis shared their thoughts on Allen.
“It was more than basketball for us… It felt like a sour breakup.”
— KG's Area 21 (@KGArea21) May 9, 2017
Pierce, KG, Rondo, Big Baby & Perk share their thoughts on Ray Allen. pic.twitter.com/8JYRWmxm0i
"When I left, I was a free agent," Allen told Tencent. "It's disheartening when you hear things negatively that people say about you because when you win, you're in love.
"We won together. When you win together, you always share that bond. That to me, has never changed."
Now that Pierce, Garnett and Allen are retired from the NBA, they can find the time to hash out their differences.