[RAY ALLEN WENT THROUGH A FEW DIFFERENT ON-COURT REINVENTIONS.]

When he was young in Milwaukee, he just ran off of screens. Later in his stay there and in Seattle, they ran more isolations for him and let him work off of the dribble. Closer to the end, in Boston and Miami, he was back to playing entirely off of the ball and being a shooter.

Ray was deadly. He understood how to run off of screens; he understood timing; he understood how to create a tiny gap to generate the smallest windows of space. He and I had some battles, especially in his Milwaukee and Seattle days. We were in the same draft class—him, me, AI—so we were fighting to establish territory back then.