Former Boston Celtics power forward and TNT host Kevin Garnett will bring along his 2008 championship teammates Rajon Rondo, Kendrick Perkins, Glen “Big Baby” Davis and soon-to-be-retired Paul Pierce as guests of his show Area 21 for Monday's broadcast of Game 4 between the Golden State Warriors and the Utah Jazz, the network announced.
Notably missing from that ensemble is one of the members of the original “Big Three” — shooting guard Ray Allen.
Since the start of his segment early in the season, Garnett's Area 21 has brought plenty of nostalgic characters of his era, including Baron Davis, Jason Williams, Rasheed Wallace and other basketball fanatics in rappers 2 Chainz and Ludacris.
While his fresh style of engagingly passionate takes on the NBA has quickly made the segment a hit with his enthusiastic commentary and on-hands approach to the game of basketball, Garnett's omission of Allen will be surely noticeable regardless of how the network attempts to mask his absence.
The group that once went by “Ubuntu” — a word the starting five used during its championship season to describe their unique togetherness — hasn’t completely held over into their post-Celtic careers.
Allen left for the Miami Heat in the summer of 2012, winning a championship with the team in his first of two years with the franchise. Rondo, Pierce, Garnett and a few others have since resented him from leaving the team, which had clearly started to age and enter contractual impasses after five seasons together.
Pierce and Garnett would later join the Brooklyn Nets, leaving Rondo on his own, eventually parting for the Dallas Mavericks a few games into the season as president Danny Ainge looked to re-shape the Celtics roster.
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