Boston no longer became a place he wanted to play. He disagreed with the team’s direction, his relationship with Rondo went astray, and he was even nearly traded in his final year in Boston. “I always explain that we are player that have to decide what’s best for us because the organization moves forward,” Allen said. “They trade you, they get rid of you, they cut you, and so it wasn’t a knock on anybody, it wasn’t disrespectful, I wasn’t mad at anybody when I left, it was simply put. If you’re not moving forward and in the direction that we need as the Allen family then we need to move on and find what we need for ourselves so we can be successful.”