"A number of subjects came up this afternoon as Ray Allen talked to the media after presenting a $30,000 computer lab to the Sarah Greenwood school in Dorchester, from the Bruins' Stanley Cup win to Dallas downing the Heat in the NBA Finals. But Allen expressed serious concern about not just the possibility of a lockout this summer, but the reality that games could be lost because of a work stoppage.

He said:

We're now in a situation where, at this point once the season ends and the draft comes, there won't be any immediate hurry to solve the situation right now. There does seem like there's going to be some games lost. I hope not, but you prepare for the worst. From a team perspective, everybody just try to stay connected with each other so when it breaks we need to hit the ground running. Last time, it sent a lot of guys into retirement. A lot of guys were taken by storm whether they were out of shape or somewhere where they weren't ready to get to training camp. So you have to stay locked in.

Players and owners have until July 1 to hammer out a new collective bargaining agreement. The key issues dividing the two sides are the split of basketball-related revenue (currently 57 percent to the players), a hard salary cap and salary rollbacks of nearly $800 million. The last time the league locked out in 1998 it lasted 204 days and shortened the season to 50 games."