Ray Allen Biography
Posted by admin on August 7th, 2007
Ray Allen was born on July 20, 1975, in Merced California. He is 6 feet 5 inches tall, and is 205 pounds. His real name is Walter Ray Allen. He is most known as Ray Allen. He was first interested in playing basketball at the early age of ten. He played for Hillcrest in high school. He did well all three years with Hillcrest, he really did good his senior year earning a 27-4 record and the State Championship. His junior year he was averaging 25.5 points and 11.5 rebounds a game. In his senior year he averaged 28.5 points, 13.5 rebounds and 5.3 assist per game. He was named the to the “Super 25″ by USA Today and was named All-Star MVP 3 times.
RAY’S COLLEGE YEARS
Ray Allen was picked by the University of Conneciticut to play there as a point guard. He did a great job as a point guard earning the All-American status his sophomore year which is a huge honor for any future NBA star. He also had many other honors to come in his junior year he was in the top ten running for the Naismith Player of the Year Award. Which is one of the best honors. His Junior year he was the leading contender for the Collegiate Player
of the Year Award also. He was the only UConn player, in UConn history to every score over the 1,000 point mark, in his sophomore year. He was the leading scorer for the Huskies and was nailing three pointers from all over he 118 of his 273 attempted shots. In college as a junior he was on fire. In the University games in 1995 he lead his huskies to the gold medal against Japan who did not put up an easy fight. His team and himself had been rocking the world with their undeafted record of 7-0. He was shooting 61.6% from the field and finished with a 15.6 scoring average for the United States. He decided after his great performance for the Huskies that he would enter the 1996 NBA draft.
RAY ALLEN’S NBA YEARS
Ray Allen was traded to the Seattle SuperSonics on March 5, 2003 for former Seattle point guard Gary Payton.