“I left because there were so many unresolved issues that the team wasn’t considering or willing to change,” Allen said. “As a free agent, you want to know the team is going to do the things you know they need to do. So what is it now? It’s 2020, so you’re talking about nine years, now. I’ve gotten so much hate, death threats, vitriol from Boston fans. Obviously these guys have kind of removed me from the Big 3 and said so many negative things about me and I haven’t had one negative thing to say about any of them.”
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Allen says underlying issues built up …
Allen says underlying issues built up to his decision to leave Boston. He was vague in many ways, but clearly he felt disrespected to some degree in the final days as a Celtic. He says he felt his voice wasn’t being heard. “I had to make sure that I stood up and spoke for myself when the time came for them to respect me and what it was that I brought to them on the floor. And I think at times, I didn’t do that,” he said. “So you get into a situation where everybody says things like ‘he will be alright. He’s going to be okay.’ And I always found myself in a situation where yeah I will be okay but how come my thoughts and my feelings don’t matter in certain situations?’”
Boston no longer became a place he …
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.”