For Boston, the Future Is Now

Ray Allen trade signifies rebuilding is over for the now-somewhat-less-hapless Celtics
By Jesse Andrews,  Newser Staff
Posted Jul 3, 2007 5:18 AM CDT
For Boston, the Future Is Now
Boston Celtics Ray Allen holds up his new jersey after being introduced to the media in Waltham, Mass. Monday July 2, 2007. Allen was acquired by the Celtics in a first-round trade in the NBA basketball draft from Seattle. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger)   (Associated Press)

Veteran sharpshooter Ray Allen, one of a select few stars who had expressed interest in playing in Boston, was formally introduced at a Celtics news conference, along with draft picks Glen Davis and Gabe Pruitt. Allen was traded by Seattle for two players and the fifth pick in a loaded 2007 draft.

The trade seems to indicate that Boston hopes to contend for a championship now in what is admittedly a very weak Eastern Conference, with the potentially high-scoring trio of Allen, Paul Pierce, and young up-and-comer Al Jefferson. After surgery in April on both ankles, Allen, 32, says he feels like he has "two new pairs of feet." (More NBA stories.)

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