Ray Allen Speaks to the Troops

Have to love Ray's thought on the Lakers vs Heat!

{After receiving an e-mail earlier in the week from Lt. Commander Paul Brawley of Boston's Navy Community, Ray Allen took some time before practice to take a phone call from Lt. Commander William Marks and speak to the roughly 5,000 troops on the USS Abraham Lincoln, an aircraft carrier patrolling the waters near Southwest Asia.

"We’re over here complaining about playing on Christmas Day," Allen said. "We’re home, on US soil and able to be in close proximity to our families. But these guys probably haven’t seen there family – some years, some six months, three months, whatever it may be. It just always gives us perspective. We get to play this game that we love, we get to do it every single day and so many people fighting for our freedom are away from their family, so that’s the sacrifice they have to make."

Even with all the storylines in the Celtics matchup against the Magic, a few of the troops asked him who he was rooting for in the Lakers-Heat game.

He said, "Is it possible for both of them to lose?"}

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