Report: Ray Allen Interested In Comeback With Warriors Or Cavaliers
BOSTON (CBS) -- Through his first 11 professional seasons, Ray Allen experienced just 37 total playoff games, making it as far as the conference finals just once. After being traded to the Celtics in 2007 and later joining the Heat, the sharpshooter added 134 more playoff games to his resume over the course of seven seasons.
He made the playoffs every single year during that stretch, winning titles in 2008 with Boston and 2013 with Miami.
And, well, two years of retirement apparently hasn't dampened the taste for more.
According to ESPN's Chris Broussard, Allen's representatives have reached out to the Golden State Warriors and the Cleveland Cavaliers about a potential NBA comeback.
Cleveland.com's Chris Haynes added the interest between Allen and the Cavs is mutual, while the Warriors are "unsure" of their interest level, according to Broussard. Alex Kennedy of Basketball Insiders, however, noted that the Warriors likely are interested, just as they were last offseason.
Allen, who turns 41 on July 20, is also not 100 percent decided on returning to basketball, but Broussard noted that Allen "is intrigued by the possibility of playing for another championship."
In his postseason career, Allen shot 40.1 percent from 3-point range and 44.4 percent from the field. In the 2008 NBA Finals, Allen set a record for most 3-pointers made in a Finals with 22. (The record has since been broken.) He set another record in the 2010 Finals by hitting seven 3-pointers in the first half of one game. And in 2013, he saved Miami from a season-ending loss in Game 6 of the Finals by burying a last-second game-tying 3-pointer.
The Heat would go on to win in overtime and then win Game 7 for their second straight NBA title.
Allen played the next season, averaging just 9.6 points in 26.5 minutes per game during the regular season and posting similar numbers in the postseason, before unofficially retiring. He was rumored to have received calls from a number of times during his time away.
Allen said last summer that he didn't miss the NBA ... except when he was watching the Finals.
"I probably missed it in the Finals. Watching Cleveland and Golden State play, it just seemed like an epic battle that required a lot of precision on the floor and that's when I felt, that was probably the only time that I felt like, 'Man, I should have been out there,'" Allen told the Hartfourd Courant last August.
After another June spent watching those same teams go at it, and with Kevin Durant joining forces with Steph Curry to combat LeBron James and Kyrie Irving, one of the great shooters of all time might be ready to lace up his shoes and see what kind of impact he can gave on that seemingly inevitable Round 3 next spring.