hall of fame Shooting guard for the Boston Celtics Ray Allen added to his sizable list of lifetime accomplishments this week, but it had only a tenuous connection to the basketball career he’s built over the past three decades as a player in Huskies in Connecticutand in the NBA after that.
The champion Celtics winger earned his Bachelor of General Studies degree from UConn 27 years after he left the school to join the league in which he won two titles as a player. “It’s never too late to learn,” Allen told the Hartford Courant. Joe Arruda. “This day isn’t about me, it’s about the people who helped me along the way to finish this job, to be on this journey of graduating from college.”
He added, “And you have to do it yourself, but it’s made up of a lot of people around you, so I didn’t want it to be about me and everyone else.”
“These kids are on their own solo journeys, so it inspired me to sit next to them and talk to them… It’s really hard to describe the feeling associated with it because it’s been a pursuit for such a long time.”
“I loved my time here as a student athlete. Fortunately and unfortunately for me, I had a higher calling at the time and it was sad for me because I left here and really enjoyed being here as an athlete.”
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