{"id":11718,"date":"2016-11-01T15:19:55","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T19:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/?p=11718"},"modified":"2016-11-01T15:19:55","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T19:19:55","slug":"ray-allen-retires-nba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2016\/11\/ray-allen-retires-nba.html","title":{"rendered":"Ray Allen Retires from the NBA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/files\/2016\/11\/ray_allen_nope.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11719 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/87\/2016\/11\/ray_allen_nope-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"NBA: Finals-San Antonio Spurs at Miami Heat\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" \/><\/a>Ray Allen, a star for the Bucks, Sonics (now the Thunder), Celtics and Heat, announced his official retirement from the NBA on Tuesday. Allen announced his retirement in a letter to his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theplayerstribune.com\/ray-allen-letter-to-my-younger-self\/\" target=\"_blank\">younger self on the Players&#8217; Tribune<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I write this to you today as a 41-year-old man who is retiring from the game,&#8221; Allen wrote. &#8220;I write to you as a man who is completely at peace with himself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Allen, who is 41-years-old, walked away from basketball after the 2014 Finals, but occasionally surfaced in reports regarding a potential comeback. Specifically, one report suggested that LeBron James wanted to add Allen to the Cavaliers.<\/p>\n<p>Allen retires as a two-time NBA champion, the career leader in regular-season and playoff 3-pointers made, and a 10-time All-Star. He also is remembered fondly by many fans as Jesus Shuttlesworth from the 1998 classic basketball film\u00a0<em>He Got Game.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Allen&#8217;s days with teh Bucks and Sonics were his most productive individually of his 19-year career. However, the 2007 trade from Seattle to Celtics is what put him in the spotlight. Alongside teammates Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce, Allen formed the Big 3 in Boston, winning the 2008 NBA Finals. This was the Celtics&#8217; first title since 1986.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, Allen&#8217;s role was diminished with age and the rise of Avery Bradley. In 2012, Allen surprisingly signed with the Celtics&#8217; rival, the Miami Heat. In Miami, he was part of one of the best teams of the decade, as the 2012-13 Heat went on a 27-game-winning streak and returned to the Finals vs. the Spurs.<\/p>\n<p>In Game 6, Allen hit arguably the most famous shot in Finals history, opening the door for the Heat&#8217;s Game 7 victory and his second title.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tr6XsZVb-ZE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Allen&#8217;s desire waned. after the 2014 Finals with the Heat. He goes down as one of the best shooters in league history.\u00a0Allen is a sure-fire Hall of Famer and joins Garnett, Kobe Bryant and Tim Duncan among legends drafted in the late 1990s to retire this season. Allen averaged 18.9 points and 2.3 made 3-pointers on 40 percent shooting from beyond the arc for his career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ray Allen, a star for the Bucks, Sonics (now the Thunder), Celtics and Heat, announced his official retirement from the NBA on Tuesday. Allen announced his retirement in a letter to his younger self on the Players&#8217; Tribune. &#8220;I write this to you today as a 41-year-old man who is retiring from the game,&#8221; Allen&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":600,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1162,3197,3018,46,3196,2979],"class_list":["post-11718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television","tag-basketball","tag-celtics","tag-miami-heat","tag-nba","tag-ray-allen","tag-retirement"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ray Allen Retires from the NBA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ray Allen, 41, has officially retired from the NBA. 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