Ray Allen holds his own reunion, alone, on Facebook

Last night, key members of the 2008 Boston Celtics title team held an informal reunion on Kevin Garnett’s Area 21 show. Ray Allen was not invited.

Reunions are tough. Sometimes you want to go, sometimes you don’t. Sometimes your 10-year high school meet-up happens right as you’re out of a job, at your most overweight, and all of your suits smell like basil for reasons I don’t want to talk about. There are complicated feelings at play, and personal relationships that may have been severed pretty completely. Such is life. Ray Allen found himself in that situation recently.

If you’re someone who pays attention to anything, you’ve probably caught a bit of talk about how Rajon Rondo organized a reunion of the Celtics superteam of the 2000s. You had Kevin Garnett, noted jerk and talented basketball player. You had Paul Pierce, the quintessential “is he a star or a superstar?” guy. To round out the square, you had “Why is” Kendrick Perkins and the Rajon Rondo of basketball, Rajon Rondo. Allen was not among this group of basketpeople.

Team Bitter But Reasonable cleared things up on TNT last night. Something to the effect of thinking their team was more of a team+. That’s fair. But Ray Allen was still left out all these years later.

Since this is present day life, Ray Allen decided to clap back on Facebook.

*Allen either deleted the post or made it private at some point this afternoon. Above is a screenshot of the original post.

Granted if that’s clap-back, it’s the sound of one hand clapping, but good for him for having the presence of mind to post a picture and five words to social media. Will it fix everything? No. But is it a start? Also no.

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Basically, this is just a bad breakup with very little fireworks and a small amount of TV time. I get the impression I care about this more than they do, and I don’t even care all that much. Eventually things like this get smoothed over. They always seem to. Until then, I’ll continue obsessing over small details, reading far too much into things, and avoiding people from high school. Same as ever, really.