Ray Allen
Ray Allen
Walter Ray Allen, Jr.is an American professional basketball player who is currently a free agent. He has previously played for the Milwaukee Bucks, Seattle SuperSonics, Boston Celtics and Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association. In college, he was a member of the University of Connecticut Huskies. One of the most accurate three-point and free throw shooters in NBA history, he is a ten-time NBA All-Star, and has won two NBA championships. He has also won an Olympic gold medal...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth20 July 1975
CityCastle Air Force Base, CA
I dream about winning a championship, where everybody is hooting and hollering for you. The whole world is drawn to the NBA Finals.
My nature is to keep things inside. In time, I'll be comfortable stepping up when I think the team could use my input.
I look at how we got beat and I thought the hustle points and the energy points were all gauged through offensive rebounds. I thought in the second half they got so many second-chance opportunities they could really run. It just seemed like they were going up our guys' backs. When you don't get any offensive rebounds and they start going the other team's way, it's almost like a snowball effect.
I always say if the house I live in is comfortable, and I have all the amenities I need, then what more can you ask for?
Minnesota's a great city.
Sequels to most movies are always fluff and not as good as the first,
Would I do it again? Film another movie? Oh yeah.
There is an entire culture out there built around siphoning money from an athlete, and the young men and women who come through just feed the machine.
Whether that is me retiring, staying here or going somewhere else, it will be on my terms. I've made it to this point, and I felt great that I have the choice to make it for myself.
Right now, we're not a team. I think we're genuinely happy for each other when we're out there on the court. We've got to find new and different ways to support each other on the floor. The comfort zone that we've been in, we've got to change it a little bit. Everybody has onus on this team. It's easy for someone to say, 'I play only 10 minutes a game, so they're not talking about me.' But that 10 minutes is just as important.
I tell the young kids, you have eight or nine months of the year to play basketball and the rest of the year you can relax. So, you've got to be ready. It doesn't last forever.
It was Chinese music. I couldnt understand it, but it had a good beat to it.
What brought me back here was my players, ... I know who Rashard (Lewis) is. I know who Nick (Collison) and Luke are, and I don't know what those other guys (on other teams) bring to the table. This is where I've made home and I didn't want anything different and I didn't need anything different.
Inside the first 20 to 25 games of the season, we were losing these games, getting beat by two and three points. Over the last 10 games, it seems like we're starting to win these games and putting some good things together.