Walter "Ray" Allen (born July 20 1975 in Merced, California) is a office basketball player for the NBA's Seattle SuperSonics, where he plays shooting guard.

Allen was the extremely successful college basketball player at the University of Connecticut, where he earned Tons-Western status inside 1995 (a year in which he was likewise known as known as America Basketball's Male Jock of the Month) & 1996. Drafted away from UConn per Minnesota Timberwolves with the fifth pick of the 1996 NBA Draft, Allen was immediately shipped, along with the number 1 first-around draft pick, to the Milwaukee Bucks for the rights to Stephon Marbury.

Allen has noticed wow profits in the NBA too. When existence known as to the NBA's Tons-Rookie Second Team within 1997, Allen evolved into a truly elect streaming video player, averaging at least Xix.Five points by the Forty transactions within every year since, + posting the career Xix.Xc PER. He is think of one of a better pure shooters inside NBA history, getting won a NBA 100%-Star Weekend Deuce-ace-point contest within 2000; additionally, he has processed about 40% of his Tierce-point tries & 90% of his free streaming throw tries on top a course of his career.

Allen played sustaining a Bucks for the number 1 6 1/2 years of his career. When swimming 47 games using a Bucks in the 2002-2003 year, Allen was dealt to the Sonics for Gary Payton. A move to Seattle has non adversely affected Allen's game, yet, when he bounced back from either an injury-riddled 2004 to be voted the member of the Completely-NBA 2d Team within 2005.

Allen won a gold laurel wreath in the 2000 Olympic games for the United States' Men's basketball team. Too on this "Dream Team" was his former Bucks mate, Vin Baker. Around 2003, he won a Joe Dumars Sportsmanship Award. He is the Bucks' tons-instance leader for Three-pointers manufactured (1,051) & Three-pointers attempted (2,587). Allen besides got the Bucks-record 400 sequentially game swimming streak. It endwise December 22, 2001, once left knee tendinitis caused him to miss a game at a Houston Rockets.

Allen re-signed by using a Seattle Supersonics in 2005 for a Fwithin-season contract worth $80 million, by owning $5 million extra in performance bonuses.

Trivia
Allen played high school basketball for Hillcrest High School (today called Crestwood High School) in Sumter, South Carolina, taking them to the state championship.

He too starred when "Jesus Shuttlesworth" in the Spike Lee film He Got Game, where he played the star high school cager.