Just confirmed our tickets. We are going up to Phoenix next Wednesday to watch the Clippers play the Suns.
Wonderful. The Clippers need to control Booker.
Just confirmed our tickets. We are going up to Phoenix next Wednesday to watch the Clippers play the Suns.
I just get the feeling that the Clipps are thinking they are saving the best for the end but they aren’t playing like champs
IMO the team to watch and worry about now is the Raptors. They are hot now. What better retribution than to see the Raptors beat the clipps in the finals
Difficult to understand why unless there is still player resentment towards Kawhi and his LMI don't see the Clippers getting very far in the playoffs at this point. They are not playing like a good basketball team.
Can you feel the love......I hope Ray Allen rises to the occasion and shows up
Doc Rivers wants Ray Allen at Kevin Garnett's Celtics jersey retirement
Ohm Youngmisuk
ESPN Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES -- When the Boston Celtics retire and raise Kevin Garnett's jersey to the rafters next season, Doc Rivers wants Ray Allen to be there in attendance.
The LA Clippers coach said on Saturday that he has a role to play in mending the rift that still exists between Allen and some of his former Celtics teammates like Garnett.
After Allen left Boston to sign with the Miami Heat in 2012, some of those Celtics who won a title together in 2008 haven't forgiven or let go of the beef with the shooting guard.
"I hope not but it's proven to be, yeah," Rivers said when asked whether there's still beef between those Celtics and Allen before the Clippers faced the Sacramento Kings on Saturday. "I think it's ridiculous but it's still there, with some guys, not with every guy.
"KG is getting his jersey retired next year and I'm hoping everyone is there," Rivers continued. "I'll make the right calls -- that doesn't mean the right things will happen."
Allen joined some of his former Heat teammates to celebrate Dwyane Wade's jersey retirement and the Celtics rift came up again when Udonis Haslem said he would fight any former Celtics who still have a problem with Allen if need be.
"Once we knew you were one of us, it was all love," Haslem said. "If they got a problem with you, they still got a problem with us then. Whatever that is. Whatever they want to do. We old, D-Wade retired, CB [Chris Bosh] retired, we got nothing to do but fight. So if they want to fight, we can fight."
In 2017, Paul Pierce posted a picture of himself and Allen on Instagram asking that Garnett and Rajon Rondo let any anger go with the hashtag #burythehatchet. Like Rivers has said before, Pierce said that the bond that they all have from winning the title together in 2008 will never be broken.
Rivers plans on trying to help all sides heal and have Allen be there in Boston when Garnett's No. 5 is retired.
"I have a role in it," Rivers said. "I just think we won a title with Ray and we need to get over it."
I don't see the Clippers getting very far in the playoffs at this point. They are not playing like a good basketball team.
I feel very very bad that time when Ray bolted to an intense rival Heat for LESS money. It was a 'pearl harbor' bomb, the kind that will make you hurt for a long time. And he achieved that, and rubbed it in by hitting the 3 ball that sent the Heat-Spurs game to OT in Game 6 that year. I know KG feels a million times more hurt than me and I personally do not want to see Ray again in the Boston TD Garden. It's up to KG if he wants Ray Allen there.
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