“I already cried three times today,” he said an hour before the Pistons and Celtics game and the halftime ceremony where his No. 32 was run to the rafters ... and his high school coach ...

BOSTON -- On the day Kevin Garnett saw his No. 5 raised to the rafters at TD Garden ... "It's good to see Ray Allen here," Garnett said. "Real s---. It's good to see you, man.