Boston Celtics champion shooting guard Ray Allen is making the leap into a coaching career according to the Connecticut Insider’s Dave Borges, having been named head coach of Pinecrest, Florida’s Gulliver Prep’s men’s basketball team.
The Hall of Fame guard won a title with the Celtics in 2008 before a controversial exit to the Miami Heat where he would win another soured many Celtics fans on the UConn star. He has since made amends with Paul Pierce while remaining estranged from much of the rest of the Banner 17 peers, and now seems to be focused on making a move to the other side of the clipboard.
“He’s a smart guy, there’s no reason why he couldn’t do well,” related legendary Connecticut coach Jim Calhoun on the hire.
UConn great Ray Allen to coach high school basketball. Why Jim Calhoun thinks it’s ‘terrific for him’ https://t.co/xSb2Zak4NJ
— CTInsider (@insider_ct) August 20, 2021
Will Allen ever make the leap to a higher level of coaching? Not according to Calhoun,
“I don’t think he does … when I talk to him, he’s all over the place playing golf, so I’m not sure why he’d want to give up all those kind of things.”
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