Celtics champion Ray Allen on how a hotel burglary made March Madness malicious

Making the NCAA Tournament is more often than not the memory of a lifetime for a young basketball player. However, former Boston Celtic Ray Allen’s crack at the “Big Dance” was memorable for all the wrong reasons.

When he was representing UConn in the NCAA Tournament, Connecticut’s hotel rooms were burglarized while the team lost to UCLA.

“We get back to the hotel and somebody broke into our hotel and stole all our stuff,” said Allen in a recent interview with the “Dan Patrick Show.”

“Everything that was of value to me at that time was stolen from me,” explained the South Carolina native.

To hear the tale in full, listen to the clip embedded above to hear how one shining moment can occasionally turn into one major inconvenience.

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Story originally appeared on Celtics Wire