Beijing time on March 14, after the Celtics home game against the Lone Ranger, the team also held Garnett's No. 5 jersey retirement ceremony, the two cores of the green shirt Pierce and Ray Allen came to the North Shore Garden Arena to help their old teammates, and hugged together, as Garnett's good homie, Pierce's attendance is indeed reasonable, but Ray Allen, who has been in a very stiff relationship with Pierce and Garnett, also attended the jersey retirement ceremony of Garnett. It is indeed a bit unexpected.
After the retirement ceremony, Ray Allen also said in an interview with the media that he was not sure whether Garnett would welcome himself to his jersey retirement ceremony before, but in the recent Cleveland All-Star Weekend, after the group photo session of the NBA's 75 stars, Garnett invited himself to participate in his podcast show, he was sure that he could come to the jersey retirement ceremony, and today's scene, Garnett finally released his former teammate: "I am very happy that Ray Allen is here. Seriously, it's nice to see you and you're next (players in jersey retirement). ”
In the 07-08 season, Ray Allen, who had just switched from supersonic to Celtics, also formed the "big three combination" of the league with Pierce and Garnett at that time, and the team was lucky enough to beat the powerful Lakers in the finals in the first season of the group, winning the 17th championship in team history, unlike the previous supersonics that could score an average of 25+ points per game, which was the absolute offensive core of the team, after going to the Celtics, Ray Allen also became the one who sacrificed the most. The average score per game has never come to 20+, and in order to cater to Garnett and Pierce, Ray Allen is also willing to be a pitcher who ambushes the outside. But it is precisely because of his sacrifice, the cold arrow cast on the outside, that allows the Big Three to play a perfect chemical reaction, and in the following years it is a championship favorite in the East that cannot be ignored.
However, since then, the Celtics have not been able to win the championship again, in 12 years Ray Allen about the renewal of the contract and the team management is very stiff, in order to cultivate young player Bradley, Danny Angel even let Ray Allen from the bench, which also made the latter very dissatisfied, I did not get the high salary extension should not say, but to let me go to the young people to make way for the substitute, after the end of the season, Ray Allen also left Boston for 5 years, thus joining the Heat, which just eliminated the Greenshirts last season.
It is precisely because Ray Allen "surrendered" this time, so that Pierce, Garnett is extremely unhappy, once intimate three giants in this way, there is a gap, and then the old and dead do not communicate with each other, even in a GreenShirts 08 championship gathering exchange meeting, the team did not invite Ray Allen to attend, as an important contributor who helped the team win the championship, Ray Allen was ignored by the team, which was really lamentable.
And in the blink of an eye, all three have been retired for many years, and time has finally resolved the gap between the three giants, so that they can release their previous suspicions on the retirement of Garnett's jersey today, and indeed won the infinite emotion of old fans, just like Garnett said, Ray Allen's No. 20 jersey is indeed worthy of being retired by the team, and I hope that one day in the future, the No. 34, No. 5 and No. 20 jerseys over the Boston North Shore Garden Arena can flutter together.