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Ray Allen, the victim of rampant trade rumors recently, was quoted by Julian Benbow, of the Boston Globe(this week’s guest on the Celtics Late Night Show), as offering advise to Rajon Rondo and his aspirations for the 2010 Celtics squad.

From The Boston Globe:

“I told him, ‘You’ve got 10, 12-plus years left in the NBA, you’re making great money, but this could be yours,” Allen said. “I told him I went to the Eastern Conference Finals in Milwaukee, and the next year, we just assumed we were going to get back and we didn’t make the playoffs. So it’s not guaranteed because you did it once or twice. It’s never guaranteed so we have to be very selfish about really wanting to be good now.”

Before coming to Boston, Allen had been to the playoffs just four times in 10 NBA seasons (three with Milwaukee, one with Seattle). In the last year of an $80 million contract he signed five years ago in Seattle, his future with the Celtics is uncertain after this season, but he said his focus has to be on a championship.

“All these guys in this locker room are my brothers and I’m going to proceed forward thinking this could be it for all of us,” Allen said. “And we’ve got to treat this season is very special and know that whatever comes out of it is what we want to come out of it and that’s winning a championship.”

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