In this episode of the Draymond Green Show, host Draymond Green asks former Celtics star Paul Pierce to explain his feelings about Ray Allen’s 2012 departure from Boston to the Miami Heat. Pierce describes the close brotherhood that existed among the Celtics players and their families, and how he expected a direct conversation with Allen when the contract and role issues arose. He expresses disappointment that Allen left without that communication, interpreting it as a lack of respect, which led to a period of silence between them. Pierce recounts later moments of reconciliation: an unexpected meeting during a post‑retirement exhibition game in China, a heartfelt conversation that cleared the air, and a public hug at Kevin Garnett’s jersey retirement (the Celtics’ 75th anniversary celebration). He notes that after these events the relationship was restored, and the former teammates now get along. The episode also includes a brief DraftKings sportsbook sponsorship plug.
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Dray doing that.
Man, so, you know, Ray came in as we a brotherhood. Our families hang out with each other. His kids, my kids, we go to his house for, you know, Halloween parties and Super Bowl and vice versa. So when it hit that he was— we just lost to Miami, by the way. And I'm like, all right, you know, we just need to regroup, get a couple more young dudes. Then we gonna re-sign Ray, we gonna stay aligned up our contracts and finish this thing out together. And by the way, I hope y'all bring Klay back. Y'all need to finish together. You know, hope that's an example of how we went and y'all don't do that. You know, give him what he want, you know, right? And I think, you know, I didn't know he had issues with the contract or starting. But the thing is, I wanted you to holler. Like, if you gonna leave us, like, gimme a call. Like, look, P, it ain't working out. You know, they not gonna gimme the contract I want. They not giving me the role I want. So I'm gonna go this route. Okay, man, I respect that. You make a business decision for you and your family. Cool. But when you never get that call and you leave and go to the team who we pretty much, this is our rival. We just, we playing these cats to see who going to the finals the next few years. Like, come on, man. I just didn't feel like there was a respect thing there. And I don't run into Ray after that until retirement. So I don't talk to him and he don't talk to me. You know, even when you play each other, there's no words really. And I felt a certain kind of way about that. So I had a chance to, I was playing this exhibition game in China in retirement, my first year retired. And I didn't even know Ray was gonna be there. So next thing you know, he's like, "Oh, by the way, Ray is here." Oh. In the locker room next to you. And I'm like, all right, you know what, let me go holler at him. So I was, I went over there like, look, this is how I told him how I felt about the situation. He was like, man, you know what, after I broke it down to him like that, he was like, you right, I should have did it different. After that, I was like, it's all good, we spoke on it, we shook, and it's been love, and it's been love since then.
So why, At the 75th, did you and KG do that when Ray walked past? 'Cause I didn't know it was love now.
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Wait, wait, wait.
Y'all was like laughing. You and— it's 75th anniversary. You and KG was laughing when Ray walked through. And I thought it was still some beef. No, hell no. I was gonna ask you.
Oh, hell no.
Okay, so y'all good now?
Yeah, we good now. Yeah, we good. It wasn't no beef by the time, 'cause the 75 was last year. We was good before that. Because remember if you noticed when KG got his jersey retired, we all hugged at half court, which was like a couple years ago. And so yeah, he was like, shout out to Ray. Plus Tickets, I was good, but Ticket wasn't good until his retirement. You don't even know, we didn't know Ray was coming to his retirement. That was the big thing surrounding KG retirement.
Yeah.
When he was getting his jersey retired, we like, "Is Ray coming?" You know, "You think Ray gonna show up?" Nobody had the idea, I didn't. So when he showed up, I think that was a sign like, "You know what, it's time to squash that." KG, Rondo, let's bring it in. And I think from that point we all squashed it. I already had squashed mine with him. But at KG jersey retirement, I think it was just like, "All right, they spoke." It was cool. Now everybody good now. [FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
