Ray Allen doesn’t think loyalty in the NBA exists. Nor does he think it should.
“It’s not about loyalty,” he told Trysta Krick of USA Today Sports. “It’s about business. We get traded. As a free agent, you sign a contract to go somewhere, wherever you need to go.”
“Players only have a small window to maximize their dollar, to maximize their ability to win a championship,” he continued. “Each individual player has to decide that for themselves. It’s just the nature of sports. Teams stay, players kind of move on.”
Allen played five seasons with the Celtics, before leaving Boston to sign with the Miami Heat.