Former Celtic Ray Allen has friend who lost leg in bombing.
MIAMI (AP) -- If he was still a member of the Celtics, Ray Allen knows exactly where he would have been when a pair of explosions rocked the Boston Marathon.
He'd have been at the finish line - where the bombings occurred.
In the Miami Heat locker room Wednesday, Allen told reporters that a friend of his family was among those who lost a leg Monday in the deadly explosions at the marathon, and that another friend owned the restaurant that employed the 29-year-old woman who was one of the three people killed in the blasts.
Allen has been a spectator at the marathon several times, going back to his days with the Celtics. He said his mother has run the marathon three times and that his wife has done so twice.
"We would have been sitting at the finish line, me and my whole family, waiting on my mom and my wife. ... They would have been running if we were in Boston," said Allen, in his first season with the Heat. "So that presented some anxiety when I thought about it."
Link: http://www.nba.com/2013/news/04/17/ray-allen-friend-boston-marathon.ap/
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