Tony Allen wasn’t just any second-unit player against the Thunder in 2014.
In that year’s seven-game first-round series, which the Thunder eventually won, Allen came off the bench in Game 4 to record 13 rebounds. He averaged 12.3 points in five games, a personal playoff best.
Allen told Chris Vernon Tuesday, on Vernon’s Grind City Media show, that his intensity against OKC during Memphis’s “Grit and Grind” era wasn’t just about the two teams’ rivalry. It was because the Thunder didn’t sign as a free agent in 2010.
According to Allen, OKC brought him in for an interview.