Ray
Allen's
Story
High School
In high school,Ray Allen played for coach James Smith at Hillcrest HS.
He averaged 25.5 points and 11.5 rebounds as a junior and 28.5 points,13.5
rebounds and 5.3 assists per game as a senior. Finally Hillcrest HS. finished
season 27-4 and won the state championship.
Ray
named the South Carolina's "Mr Basketball" in 1992-93,South Carolina 4A
Player-of-the-Year,
Gatorade State
Player-of-the-Year in 1992-93 and 3 times All-State and team MVP.Selected
by USA Today as one of its "Super 25" scholastic stars and played in Nike
All- Star game in Chicago following senior season.
University
When
Ray at University of Connecticut, he became a first player in UConn men's
basketballhistory to earn All-America status as a sophomore. In his junior
season, he tabbed as a First Team All-American and was a leadingcontender
for National Collegiate Player-of-the-Year honors .And he was listedamong
the nation's Top 10 pre-season finalists for Naismith National Player of
the Year.
He was the first UConn player to pass 1,000-point scoring plateau as a
sophomore and started junior season No. 24 on Husky career scoring list
with 1,104 points. Has a career scoring average of 16.7 while adding 5.8rebounds
per game and scored in double figures in 56 of 66 collegiate Contests.
Stands No. 1 in careerthree-point field goal shooting (43.2%), having converted
118 of 273three-pointers.In Ray Allen's three years as a collegian, Connecticut's
overall record is 79-11 (best three-year record among all 305 NCAA Division
I schools through games of February 6, 1996).
In World
University Games ,he helped the United States to the Gold Medal in
Japan during August of 1995 and finished with a 15.6 scoring average as
USA posted a spotless 7-0 record,shot 61.6% from the field. During the
summer of 1994 broke Shaquille O'Neal's U.S. Olympic Festival scoring record,
netting101 points in four games as a member of the East squad and was the
top scorer (25.3/game) and toprebounder (8.8/game) in the entire U.S. Olympic
Festival.
nBA
An All-America selection and the 1996 Big East Player of the Year at
Connecticut, Ray Allen became an immediate starter for the Milwaukee
Bucks, averaging 13.4 ppg and making the NBA All-Rookie Second Team. He
started all 82 games in his second season and boosted his scoring average
to 19.5 ppg.
Allen was drafted by the Minnesota Timberwolves with the fifth overall
pick of the 1996 NBA Draft and immediately traded, along with center Andrew
Lang, to the Milwaukee Bucks for point guard Stephon Marbury, the fourth
overall choice. Allen played in all 82 games as a rookie, making 81 starts,
the most of any Milwaukee player. His 13.4 ppg ranked third on the team,
and he topped the Bucks with 117 three-point field goals. Allen spent the
summer following his rookie season filming the lead role of Jesus
Shuttlesworth, the top high school basketball player in America, in Spike
Lee's He Got Game, starring Denzel Washington (as Allen's father). His
second season was even better than his first. He ranked second on the
club in scoring and 17th in the NBA at 19.5 ppg and he netted a team-high
134 three-pointers, tied for eighth-most in the NBA....................................... |