OP is such a p***y. This was how basketball use to be. Who gives a damn if they're friends or not? We don't pay to see these guys become friends in the summer. So I could give a rats ass what millionaire ball players personal relationships. I think it's pretty damn cool KG cut him off like that. Who knows, maybe it's more personal between the two teams than we thought? We don't know exactly what's been said between the two. Celtics probably came as a team to despise the Heat. Ray didn't just go to any team. Those guys won titles with each other, they lost with each other., they went to "war" with each other. I don't blame them for seeing Ray as a sort of traitor to them.
You guys are all looking at this from the perspective that Garnett is ignoring Allen because he wants to make a show of how badass he is. Isn't it possible that Garnett truly does feel betrayed that Allen went to the Heat? The Celtics and Heat have played each other the last 3 years in the playoffs and will probably play again this year. You also have to remember Allen went to Miami for less money than Boston offered him.
That's the point though Garnett is saying off the court he won't talk to Ray Allen. All these people thinking this is old school and how it used to be are just wrong. It's nothing old school about it. Kobe is just as competitive as Garnett yet everyone claims he's their friend.
You actually need to do the research here...a quick trip to Wiki would have told you this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isiah_Thomas Their friendship now has fallen off over the years and as time passed though. Oh yeah by the way... Larry and Magic became friends BECAUSE of their rivalry... I'm sure you'll be shocked to know that many of these players were friends off the court. This isn't war. Even in football where guys try to take each others head off understand that after the game they can be friends and talk to each other.
That's funny. It may not be true or it may but still the two were friends playing against each other. I just don't agree that this was 'How it used to be.' and how they did it in the old school. I just don't think it makes him more competitive like everyone else because he's willing to cut off friendships because someone changed teams. I guess he feels like "We're not good enough for Ray any more so he switched teams." so I can understand that. Makes him seem sensitive though.
Some people understand what you're saying, but a good majority disagree. Ray Allen leaving his friends for their biggest obstacle to a championship is a slight. People can bring up management's slights of Ray all they want, but the fact of the matter is that KG had nothing to do with that. An NBA player leaving his friends to go play with their rivals because he really likes golf? I'd stop talking to his ass, too. EDIT: Also, you wore a sweater to a Rockets game, rendering your fruity European opinion null and void.
The same NFL players who probably more likely to play for another team over the course of their careers, where their teams can cut them at-will. Fierce loyalty in pro sports is almost non-existent, because of the nature of business. Only in fantasy land. A matter of living vicariously through other men. Again, I love sports, but people take them too seriously. That was one thing that used to turn me off about sports. Billy Cundiff and Kyle Williams getting hundreds of death threats on Twitter, email, and mailing address is profoundly disturbing. Because it throws the isolated incident argument out of the window. Wilt Chamberlain was most likely one of Bill Russell's best friends, during the 60s. The Knicks and Bulls battled fiercely in several playoff series, but Oakley was still a good friend of MJ's. Being competitive and being overly obsessive are two different things. Kobe's probably the most competitive basketball player on the planet, but off the court you probably won't meet athlete who is nearly as non-chalant and reserved in nature as his.
Can anybody dig up that article when the Big 3 first was formed back in 2008, that said Ray Allen was complaining and had a distaste for some of the foul language that KG would use during games.
You people are overreacting. Garnett clearly states he wishes Ray the best. Maybe you guys should imagine this situation from KG's point of view before criticizing. Your good friend takes a paycut to go to MIAMI when last year you took these guys to 7 games. There's a lot of bitterness there. There's a reason why his new nickname is Judas Shuttlesworth.
Seriously? Are you still missing the part where Danny Ainge had him on the trading block more than once and he felt slighted(like any player of his ilk and tenure would).
So, because KG had nothing to do with management's slight please explain your point as to why that (mgt slight's) should not have factored into Ray's move? Ray never said KG was the reason he went to Miami. Ray is not the one that deleted KG's number.
False... You need to watch some "Beyond the Glory"... Thomas and the Pistons would throw darts at a poster of Magic's face before games. They HATED Magic... Larry and Magic BECAME friends, key word = BECAME... They hated eachother when they were at their best. To some players, many great ones, it is war... (Ala Tracy McGrady)
Ray was offered a NO TRADE CLAUSE AND MORE MONEY. http://celticshub.com/2012/07/05/ce...ng-ray-allen-no-trade-clause-or-trade-kicker/ To me this is low for him, its full on ring chasing.
