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Vince Carter: You’ll be a Hall of Famer. When your time comes, who will be sitting up there with you? Have you thought about that? Stephen Curry: I actually haven't. I mean, you, Steve Nash, Reggie Miller, and Ray Allen are like the names that I think off top. Carter: Those are some of the ones I actually said. Curry: Those are my guys, it's crazy to even say out loud.
Paul Pierce: Ray Allen was the first to go. That's when he went to Miami. Me and KG was a little older and we wasn't able to carry a team night in and night out anymore. We could have done some things a little differently to extend our run if we had have made the right trades or draft with some younger guys. But we saw the writing on the wall toward the end cuz I think we got we got handled by the Knicks. That was our last series together in the first round, we put up a little fight, but the writing was on the wall all year and we was dealing with injuries. Guys was getting older and Danny Ainge was very honest about the whole process with it. He was like, "If I got to make some moves, I will, but I won't just send you anywhere. It'll be something we'll talk about if there's this opportunity. So, we was just like, all right what's the deal after the season? We talked middle of the season. It's like, I got a deal, I can send y'all to Brooklyn. You got a young core over there with D-Will and Joe Johnson. I was like, man, that's man, K, we could probably win with that.
“Get more elevation,” McBride remembered Allen telling him. “He said, ‘In the 15 minutes pregame, I work out hard. You can’t flip it on and off.’ Those type of things stick with me. Anytime he shoots the ball, whether it’s for fun, he was always locked in. And those were always the things I feel like help me more because I’m more locked in and focused on my jumper.”
Nick DePaula: Stephen Curry pulls up to Brooklyn in the Foamposite Pro — a nod to Ray Allen’s Jesus Shuttlesworth character in “He Got Game”
Stephen Curry pulls up to Brooklyn in the Foamposite Pro — a nod to Ray Allen’s Jesus Shuttlesworth character in “He Got Game” pic.twitter.com/6o5jJxzkpj
— Nick DePaula (@NickDePaula) December 29, 2025
Allan Houston: In the 90s, I still think someone should do something on this — that our position in that decade, I don’t know if there’s ever been another era, at least for the two-guard position. You go down all the names — Mitch Richmond, Michael Jordan, Reggie Miller, AI, Stackhouse, Ray Allen, Steve Smith, Rip Hamilton, Michael Redd — just keep going. Every single night that position was really trying to own their space, and you had to do it in so many different ways. With Reggie you had to guard him differently than Michael Jordan, Mitch Richmond, or J.R. Rider. The individual matchups every night at that position are what I miss — and what basketball misses. It’s just that shooting guard battle. Those matchups, and the way we had to score, that’s what’s missing. The game’s smarter and more efficient now, but I’m not sure it’s as fun to watch.
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These days Allen aims to stretch himself mentally by playing word scramble games like Quartiles. “It [Quartiles] helps me kind of cycle my brain, because you have to think and it sometimes can be uncomfortable, but you have to learn how to be a critical thinker, so that when you do deal with adverse situations, at least your mind starts to work.” Allen likens the process of keeping your mind agile to maths problems you did at school. “When you did math when you were younger, you said, ‘How am I going to use this later in life?’ Well, math starts with a problem. You figure out an equation to solve it, and then you show your work and you come out with the answer, right or wrong. You follow the process and figure out what allows you to get to that solution.”
Foodies who miss the former Middletown eatery “grown” may once again be able to taste its culinary creations here in Connecticut. In May, the organic fast food restaurant announced its launch of a nationwide franchising program. It currently has just one location, in Miami. The eatery is the creation of Shannon Allen and her husband, Ray Allen, an NBA champion and Hall of Fame athlete.
The inspiration for the couple’s business came after their son Walker was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes as a toddler. The family was often on the road while Ray was playing in the NBA, and they were juggling life with five children. Finding quick and healthy meals for Walker and the rest of the family proved challenging, and Shannon realized there were no fast, affordable options for organic and nutritious food.
Which NBA shooters did you grow up admiring? Kon Knueppel: “Ray Allen. I don’t shoot really anything like him. But he was one of my favorite players just because he could shoot the hell out of it. He was one of my favorites.”
Gary Washburn on Jayson Tatum recruiting Damian Lillard: I just was told that they're communicating and Tatum is recruiting. I mean, Tatum is the face of the franchise. So, yeah, you're told he's recruiting. I don't know if they're like FaceTiming every day or they're on Snapchat and sharing videos and you know, ‘look at my uh rehab video. I'm swimming. Yeah, I'm swimming. What about you? What are you up to, Dame?’ Like, I don't know if it's that deep but they are communicating and I think we all know Tatum's going to be here for a long time and I think that the players who have come to Boston, from Kevin Garnett to Ray Allen to Isaiah Thomas, even our friend Marcus Morris, guys who we traditionally thought might not like it here ended up really liking it in Boston and didn't want to leave, all the way now to Jrue Holiday.
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Keerthika Uthayakumar: Most makes to tie or take the lead in the last 90 seconds of the 4th or OT in a single postseason (since 1997): Tyrese Haliburton - 5 this year LeBron James – 5 in 2018 Kevin Durant – 5 in 2012 Dirk Nowitzki – 5 in 2011 Ray Allen - 5 in 2009 Ben Gordon – 5 in 2009 John Stockton – 5 in 1997
StatMuse: Jalen Brunson has more 30-point playoff games than Clyde Drexler Patrick Ewing Julius Erving Moses Malone DeMar DeRozan Paul Pierce Jaylen Brown Magic Johnson Chauncey Billups Shai Gilgeous-Alexander Ray Allen Vince Carter Tracy McGrady Dominique Wilkins Klay Thompson pic.x.com/1o7kWPrjku
Marco Belinelli: "In San Antonio, I found the perfect situation with Gregg Popovich, with a European-style team. They had just lost the NBA Finals to Miami — the famous Ray Allen corner shot. On the first day of training camp, they made us sit and watch the last two quarters where they lost the title. Pop said: 'This is where we start from. We have to build from here and never make those mistakes again.' That was my moment to fully commit."