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Ray Allen's new book sheds light on Celtics drama, intense battles with Rajon
Rondo


Ray Allen最近將出書《From the Outside: My Journey through Life and the Game I
Love》

內容暢談了他在球員生涯中的經歷，其中也談到了在塞爾提克的過去，這篇披露了KG和Ro
ndo的部分。

KG部分：

As Allen tells it, there were early signs that he and Garnett, who were both i
ntense players and intense personalities, would eventually clash. Allen recall
ed dribbling in front of his locker during the Celtics’ preseason trip to Rom
e in 2007, which was something Allen had done to prepare for games his entire
career. The dribbling annoyed Garnett, though, who told Allen, “No, you’re n
ot going to do that.”



“You can’t tell me what to do,” Allen remembered responding, as teammates l
ooked on. “You do what you do, and I do what I do.”

“你不能告訴我該做什麽，” Allen當時如此回答，“你做你要做的事情，而我做我自己
的。”

As Allen wrote, “Gee, can two grown men be any more juvenile?” And it was a
similar experience when, before the start of the season, Garnett and Allen wen
t out to dinner at a steakhouse in Boston and spoke about their roots together
 as teenage players in the 1990s, and the pain of being on losing teams in the
 past. After dinner, Allen wrote, he asked the waitress for the check.

“兩個已經成長起來的人還能像年少時一樣幼稚嗎？” 隨後Allen繼續寫道，在那個賽季
例行



“No,” Garnett said, “I tip way better than him, so you better give me the c
heck.” It was the first time they’d gone to dinner together, and Allen point
ed out that Garnett had no idea how much Allen tipped. “There was no point in
 arguing with the guy,” Allen writes. “What struck me was that he felt the n
eed to be seen as being superior to me, even in something as petty as this.”


“不，”Garnett當時說道，“我比他給的小費更多，所以把帳單給我吧。”


It came as little surprise, then, that when Allen left Boston to sign with the
 Heat, Garnett refused to shake his hand when the two teams met on opening nig
ht the following season.

之後Allen離開塞爾提克加盟熱火，而2012-13賽季開幕戰恰好是塞爾提克客場挑戰熱火，
但比賽開始前Garnett拒絕了Allen的握手。


“KG would quarrel with his grandmother if she signed with another team,” All
en said.

“如果他的奶奶與其他球隊簽約，KG也會跟她吵架的。”Allen在書中如此寫道。

Still, Allen wrote that of all the teammates he has had, “If I had to choose
only one to play with, it would be Kevin Garnett. No one else comes close.”

不過在寫過了他打球時的大多數隊友之後，Allen又寫道：“如果要我在這些人中選擇一
個人作為隊友的話，那就會是Kevin Garnett，而其他甚至沒有更接近的人。”


Rondo部分：

At the opposite end of that spectrum is Rondo. Allen describes their early rel
ationship as one of young player and mentor. “I couldn’t have gotten along w
ith him any better,” Allen writes. “He was like a little brother to me.”




But the relationship unraveled after the Celtics’ 2008 championship. Even wit
h the passage of time, Allen still seems at a loss to explain why, exactly, th
e dynamic between he and Rondo collapsed.

但兩人的關係在塞爾提克2008年奪冠後發生了改變。儘管經過了這麼久，Allen似乎看起
來還是無法確實的解釋實際上到底兩人之間發生了什麼衝突。

But by 2011, that relationship was in tatters. Allen recalled that in 2009, be
cause the Celtics’ front office had issues with Rondo, there was talk that Al
len and Rondo would be traded to Phoenix for a package built around Amar'e Sto
udemire. Allen told Rondo at the time that he should talk to team president Da
nny Ainge to work out their problems and keep from being traded.



It came up again during the 2010-11 season. In a team meeting, Allen writes, R
ondo told his teammates, “I carried all of you to the championship in 2008.”


而當時間來到2010-11賽季時，Allen寫道，在球隊的一次會議中，Rondo對綠衫軍隊友們
說：“2008年我帶領著你們所有人贏得了總冠軍。”

Allen continued: “The rest of the team, almost in unison, responded, ‘You wh
at?’” Rondo said everyone on the team had problems with him, and when Allen
told him, “None of us had issues with you,” Rondo said to him, “You did, to
o. You told me I was the reason we were going to be traded.”

“當時球隊其他人幾乎都是同時回應‘是你？”


Perhaps that’s where the problem started, then. In the book, Allen seems genu
inely unsure of why Rondo turned on him so completely. Allen describes Rondo a
s a player who expected that he would be treated as a leader without having do
ne the work to deserve the role, and describes the Celtics as an organization
that could not figure out how to handle Rondo. Coach Doc Rivers asked Garnett
and Allen to get [Rondo] into the circle,” but Allen told Rivers, “We can
’t make him a leader, Doc. He has to earn it.”



Allen details the famed incident during the Celtics’ playoff series against M
iami in 2011, when Rivers was going over film with the team and pointing out s
ome of the errors made during their losses in the first two games. Rondo out
 his head down and turned his chair toward the lockers.” Rivers implored him
to watch the film.



“F—that film,” Rondo said, according to Allen, hurling a water bottle at t
he screen and breaking it. Rivers ordered Rondo out. Garnett followed him and
said, “Young fella, you need to get your s— together.”

“看個屁影片。”Rondo當時如此說，隨後他就將一個水瓶扔向了螢幕。之後Rivers要求R
ondo離開，Garnett也喊話：“嘿兄弟，你需要冷靜下來。”

Before the start of the 2011-12 season, during the NBA’s lockout, there were
discussions that Rondo would be traded to New Orleans for Chris Paul, but the
possibility of a deal fell through, according to reports at the time, because
Paul would not commit to signing with Boston when he became a free agent the f
ollowing summer.


在Ray Allen的回憶錄中，他表示當時那筆交易沒成另有原因。

According to Allen, though, the deal fell through for a different reason: “In
 the end, Doc decided he couldn’t do that to their coach, Monty Williams. Doc
 was a mentor to Monty, having coached him in Orlando.”

根據Allen表示，“最終，是Doc（Rivers）決定不想與對方主帥Monty Williams做交易。
Doc與Monty是非常好的朋友，他還在奧蘭多時執教過Monty。”Allen如此寫道。

Once that trade was off the table, Allen wrote that he was shocked to find the
 Celtics move in the opposite direction — instead of trading Rondo, Rivers de
cided to build the offense around him, as if rewarding his bad behavior. Allen
 said the season that followed, “my last under contract, was the most stressf
ul by far. It got to the point that Rondo would not even throw the ball to me.
”



That was when Rivers moved Allen to the bench and started Avery Bradley alongs
ide Rondo, and when Ainge nearly traded Allen to Memphis for O.J. Mayo, a deal
 that was so close to completion that Ainge called Allen and told him it was h
appening. But it fell through just before the deadline.



The tension within the Celtics came to a peak during a game in Indiana in Apri
l 2012. Pierce and forward Brandon Bass had been bickering on the court during
 the game, and the argument spilled over to the locker room. When Rivers inter
vened to talk to the team as a whole, Rondo blurted out something about Allen,
 which led to their own locker-room shouting match.



Rondo claimed Allen was jealous of him, and when Allen responded that Rondo ne
eded to stop bulls—ing veryone on the team,” Rondo told him, “I’m going
 to get your ass out of here this summer.” Later, on the team plane, Allen sa
id he approached Rondo to see if the problem could be handled and the hatchet
buried. Instead, Rondo turned a cold shoulder and said, “I got 11 games to pl
ay with you, and that’s it.”



Of course, Allen did leave that summer, and it was that decision that has left
 such a wide rift between him and Garnett — Allen patched things up with Pier
ce last summer, and the Rondo animosity may never subside. Despite the tension
 of the 2011-12 season, Allen wrote that he plan was to stay in Boston.” B
ut the Celtics, who signed guard Jason Terry, offered two years and $12 millio
n where Allen was seeking three years and $24 million. According to Allen, the
 sum total of events in Boston nudged him to sign elsewhere.



“So let me see if I got this straight,” he wrote. “You want to pay me less
money. You want to bring me off the bench. You want to continue to run the off
ense around Rondo. Now tell me again exactly why I would want to sign this con
tract?”



In the end, Allen took even less money to sign with Miami for two years and $6
 million, because the Heat had the best chance to win a title.

之後，Allen與熱火簽下了一份2年600萬的合同，原因是在那裡Allen有最好的奪冠機會。


“I knew fans in New England wouldn’t be happy with my decision,” Allen wrot
e, “but I never could have imagined the degree of unhappiness. They acted as
if I was Benedict Arnold...my sin was that I had the nerve to leave on my own
.”




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