Earlier than the arrival of Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen, the Boston Celtics have been a workforce that received 24 video games within the 2006-07 NBA season.
Of their first yr collectively, the Boston Celtics’ large three led them to 66 wins, the biggest single-season turnaround in NBA historical past.
Within the 2008 NBA Finals, the Celtics defeated the Los Angeles Lakers in six video games, and Paul Pierce was named Finals MVP.
This gave the impression to be the start of a Celtics dynasty, however accidents and age took a toll on the Celtics trio within the years following their title win.
After showing within the NBA Finals once more in 2010, the Celtics have been by no means in a position to attain the highest of the mountain once more.
The Celtics’ Massive Three run successfully led to 2012 when Ray Allen left to hitch the rival Miami Warmth.
Paul Pierce talked about why Allen particularly joined LeBron James and why it damage him and his teammates in Boston.
He would have reasonably despatched Allen to the Celtics’ greatest rival, the Los Angeles Lakers.
“(What upset us) was positively the place he went. You need to perceive we have been battling LeBron for the final 4 or 5 years.
“The Warmth will not be our competitors. LeBron is our competitors. Hey, we simply performed them within the playoffs a yr in the past. We will not play with them.
“I feel he ought to have gone to the Lakers, and he is our greatest rival.
“The largest drawback was the dearth of dialog.”
“If Ray had stayed, we would have received two video games.”
Allen was with the Warmth from 2012 to 2014, throughout which era he received his second NBA championship in 2013.
Allen famously hit a game-tying 3-pointer in Recreation 6 of the 2013 NBA Finals in opposition to the San Antonio Spurs, and the Warmth received Recreation 7.
Ray Allen was inducted into the Basketball Corridor of Fame in 2018.
To this present day, Pierce and Kevin Garnett have been vocal about their displeasure with Allen becoming a member of the Warmth and LeBron.
