{"id":621504,"date":"2026-02-24T08:40:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T08:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/621504\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T08:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T08:40:13","slug":"hall-of-fame-boston-celtics-guard-ray-allen-scores-51-vs-derrick-rose-chicago-bulls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/621504\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall of Fame Boston Celtics guard Ray Allen scores 51 vs. Derrick Rose, Chicago Bulls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It might have something to do with how he ended up exiting the franchise, but Hall of Fame Celtics shooting guard Ray Allen sometimes does not get the love one might expect for his many accomplishments with Boston \u2013 the 2008 NBA title in particular \u2013 which has memory holed his 51-point explosion against the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/chicago-bulls\/4\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Chicago Bulls;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Chicago Bulls<\/a> in the 2009 NBA Playoffs for many fans of the storied ball club.<\/p>\n<p>It was an electric outing in a series the Celtics started off very much on the wrong foot, nearly finding themselves booted from the postseason by Derrick Rise back when he was healthier and a much deadlier player. The folks behind the official &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/boston-celtics\/2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Boston Celtics;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Boston Celtics<\/a>&#8221; YouTube channel put together a clip from that fateful game for us to watch and remember.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at the clip embedded below to see it again \u2013 or for some of you younger fans, for the first time!<\/p>\n<p>Listen to &#8220;Havlicek Stole the Pod&#8221; on:<\/p>\n<p>Spotify: <a href=\"https:\/\/tiny.ee\/CdKp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/tiny.ee\/CdKp;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/tiny.ee\/CdKp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>iTunes: <a href=\"https:\/\/tiny.ee\/RK47\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/tiny.ee\/RK47;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/tiny.ee\/RK47<\/a><\/p>\n<p>YouTube:<a href=\"https:\/\/tiny.ee\/cOW3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/tiny.ee\/cOW3;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> https:\/\/tiny.ee\/cOW3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Celtics Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/celticswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/celtics\/2026\/02\/24\/hall-of-fame-celtics-guard-ray-allen-scores-51-vs-derrick-rose-bulls\/86231285007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Hall of Fame Celtics guard Ray Allen scores 51 vs. Derrick Rose, Bulls;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Hall of Fame Celtics guard Ray Allen scores 51 vs. Derrick Rose, Bulls<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It might have something to do with how he ended up exiting the franchise, but Hall of Fame&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3771],"tags":[81856,81857,7,45,920,46,919,329,3824,81855,5245,6,1131,8759],"class_list":{"0":"post-621504","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-bulls","8":"tag-2009-nba-playoffs","9":"tag-accomplishments","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-boston","12":"tag-bulls","13":"tag-celtics","14":"tag-chicago","15":"tag-chicago-bulls","16":"tag-chicagobulls","17":"tag-derrick-rise","18":"tag-hall-of-fame","19":"tag-nba","20":"tag-ray-allen","21":"tag-shooting-guard"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116124714568402179","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}