Found April 24, 2009 on Red's Army: Yardbarker Blogger Network
This Tony Allen death threat story is the final straw for me:...sources say (Allen) has made a very bad enemy in his hometown. Allen had been the target of alleged death threats for several months now, sources told Yahoo! Sports, and the Celtics’ visit to Chicago is now blanketed with around-the-clock protection. “I wouldn’t want this dude after me,” one longtime Chicago friend of Allen’s said Thursday night.“Is that what you want to write about?” Allen snapped when approached to discuss the threats. “Is that what you want to write about?”There are plenty of guys in the NBA with "off-the-court" issues, but it reaches a new level when your issues involve legitimate death threats. Most teammates can temporarily put aside the fact that you drink and drive or "allegedly" pushed around your girlfriend. But death threats? You wanna be walking behind TA onto the team bus when masked gunmen pop out of an alley?Don't laugh. From the repor...
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