Despite his own Hall of Fame career, the elder Ray Allen never wanted to push basketball on his sons.
“That has never been my mission,” he said. “All my dreams have already come true.” Instead, he wants to help his children achieve their dreams. That was why early in the younger Allen’s high school tenure, his father asked him what he wanted from the game. Before then, the younger Allen hadn’t expressed much interest in maximizing his basketball talent. He said he didn’t start pushing himself until he was in the eighth grade and his younger brother, Walker, eclipsed him as a basketball player. Ray III calls Walker, who now plays at The Hotchkiss School, “a basketball savant.” “And not just because he’s my brother,” he said. “He was a sixth-grader beating on me. I’m bigger than him, but he has a flashier game. So, I’m like, ‘I’ve got to get all that.’”
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