Alvin Williams waves to the Raptors crowd just after his retirement in 2009 (Getty Images)

In a lot of ways, Alvin Williams is Mr. Raptor. That could be construed as a diss sent Toronto’s way, but there just aren’t a whole lot of other candidates. Chris Bosh and Tracy McGrady both sped out of town via the free agent route. Vince Carter forced a trade in 2004, Antonio Davis jumped to Toronto too late to carve out some sort of Antonio Davis Era, Marcus Camby was traded before he could ever develop, and Andrea Bargnani really never panned out.

Williams was traded to the Raps in a deal that sent the initial face of the franchise – 1995-96 NBA Rookie of the Year Damon Stoudamire – to Portland in 1998. He worked through the Vince Carter era, developing into a starting-level point guard and sticking things out for years before being bought out in 2006 to make room for the oh-so famous Fred Jones free agent acquisition. Williams returned to the team in 2009 as an assistant coach, though, and since 2010 he’s worked as the team’s Director of Player Development.

And now, with new Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment CEO Tim Leiweke running the show, Williams has been let go. Not exactly a league-shifting move for the Raptors, but one that seems a little needless, and wrought with poor PR potential. From the Toronto Star’s Doug Smith:

In what I think is a terribly short-sighted move that will rankle as many people as anything he does, Leiweke has told Alvin Williams that his services are no longer required.

On one hand, the nerdy completist in me feels like the NBA might have just made more work for itself here — after all, Danny Green's now actually made 25 3-pointers in 38 tries in the 2013 NBA Finals, and this video only shows off the first 23. Then again, those first 23 set an NBA record for most 3s made during an NBA Finals, so maybe just revisiting those is totally fine without spending too much time worrying about all the additional editing that's going to be necessary before Green finishes up his long-range bombing in Game 6 (or, if you're a hopeful Miami Heat backer, Game 7). Yeah, that's a better way to live. Let's do that.

In a series that's seen wild shifts in momentum, execution, narrative and results from game to game, Green's scintillating shooting has been one constant throughout — he's been so locked in from beyond the arc that his 24-point, 6-for-10-from-deep shooting performance in San Antonio's Game 5 win actually dropped his 3-point percentage for the series, from

The NBA Finals is often decided by one or two huge performances from role players, but San Antonio Spurs wing Danny Green's shooting against the Miami Heat is unprecedented. With 9:39 remaining in the third quarter of Game 5, Green knocked down his 23rd three-pointer of the series, breaking Ray Allen's record for the most threes in an NBA Finals.

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Green ranked seventh in the league this regular season with a 42.9 percent mark from beyond the arc. His shooting in the NBA Finals has been considerably better. Through the first four games of the series, he had made 19-of-28 long-range shots (69.8 percent). At the time of his record-breaking shot, Green had somehow done even better in Game 5, hitting four of his first five three-point attempts. That means Green converted on 23 of his first 33 tries — just better than two-thirds — to get the record.

Allen, the most prolific three-point shooter in NBA history and now Green's opponent as a member of the Heat, set the previous mark of 22 threes in six games in 2008 as a member of the Boston Celtics against the Los Angeles Lakers. Allen needed 42 attempts for his record, which underscores just how amazing Green has been this series.

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Directly after Green set the record, Allen expressed his dismay at losing the record. After the jump, check out a screengrab of Allen's face (via @jose3030):