Saturday, November 27, 2010

Walter Ray Allen or Ray Allen

Walter Ray Allen or Ray Allen (born in Merced, California, July 20, 1975, age 35 years) is an American NBA player who played in the Boston Celtics and the position is as a shooting guard. He is famous for its ability to fire three-pointnya and is one of the best in history. He was educated and play basketball at the University of Connecticut. At that time, he plays in the position of Point Guard. 


Career
Drafted by the Minnesota Timberwolves, but soon sold to the Milwaukee Bucks who also became the first team in his career in the NBA. Since the 1996-97 season until the 2000-01 season, the Bucks always managed to reach the round of the NBA Playoffs and the peak, in the 2000-01 season as well, he was with the Bucks reached the Eastern Conference finals before being defeated by the Philadelphia 76ers Allen Iverson who was still playing for the 76ers.
Mid-season 2002-03, he moved to the Seattle SuperSonics after exchange with Gary Payton. Allen's best achievements with the team is to reach the NBA Playoff 2005, namely the Western Conference semifinals, before being beaten by the San Antonio Spurs with a 4-2. By the 2007-08 season, ie, just before the start of the NBA Draft 2007, he was sent to the Boston Celtics and the Celtics in exchange for some players, namely: Wally Szczerbiak, Delonte West, and Jeff Green (players in the draft of the 5th by the Boston Celtics).
Migration Allen to the Celtics finally make Kevin Garnett, Timberwolves Minnesotta stars also moved into the same team. Allen, Garnett, and Paul Pierce brought his team reached the NBA Playoff 2008 with win-lose record of the best in the NBA regular season (66-16) and headed for the NBA Finals 2008 after defeating the Detroit Pistons to 4-2 in the Eastern Conference Finals. In the NBA Finals, Celtics opponent is the Lakers. Celtics win the NBA Finals and the NBA champion. For Allen this is his first NBA championship title
Career achievements
Up to now, Allen came in second place as a player scored the most three-point shots in NBA history, as many as 2444 times with an average accuracy reaches 39.6% shooting (he became the first position among the players who are still active).
In the 2005-2006 season, Allen broke the NBA record that has survived for 10 years, the highest scoring three-point shots in a season, as many as 269 times. Number of shots three points broke the previous record holder was held by Dennis Scott (now costumed Orlando Magic), which makes the shot as much as 267 times in one season (Raihan Scott printed on the season 1995-1996.
In the NBA Finals game 2 in 2010, he managed to make eight three-point shots to break the previous record in the final. Previous record was seven times, which is held by Scottie Pippen, Kenny Smith, and Allen himself.


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