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Walter Ray Allen (born July 20 1975 in Merced, California) is an All-Star professional basketball player for the NBA's Seattle SuperSonics, for whom he plays shooting guard. Allen is known as one of the best pure shooters in the game, especially from long range.

Career

Allen was a highly successful college basketball player at the University of Connecticut, where he earned All-American status in 1995 (a year in which he was also named USA Basketball's Male Athlete of the Year and Big East Player of the Year) and 1996. Drafted out of UConn by the Minnesota Timberwolves with the fifth pick of the 1996 NBA Draft, Allen was immediately shipped, along with a future first-round draft pick, to the Milwaukee Bucks for the rights to Stephon Marbury.

Allen has found tremendous success in the NBA as well. After being named to the NBA's All-Rookie 2nd Team in 1997, Allen evolved into a truly elite player, averaging at least 19.5 points per 40 minutes in each season since, plus posting a career 19.90 PER. He is regarded as one of the best pure shooters in NBA history, having won the NBA All-Star Weekend 3-point contest in 2001; additionally, he has made nearly 40% of his 3-point attempts and 90% of his free throw attempts over the course of his career.

Allen played with the Bucks for the first 6 1/2 years of his career. After playing 47 games with the Bucks in the 2002–2003 season, Allen, along with guards Kevin Ollie, Ronald Murray and a conditional first-round draft pick, was dealt to the Sonics for Gary Payton and Desmond Mason. The move to Seattle has not adversely affected Allen's game, however, as he bounced back from an injury-riddled 2004 to be voted to the All-NBA Second Team in 2005.

Allen re-signed with the Seattle Supersonics in 2005 for a 5-year contract worth $80 million, with $5 million more in performance bonuses. Through 59 games, he is averaging 24.9 points, 3.4 assists and 4.2 rebounds per game this season, while shooting 45% and 40% from the field and three-point line, respectively.

On March 12, 2006, Allen became the 97th player to reach the 15,000-point plateau in his career.

Awards/honors

All-NBA Second Team: 2005
All-NBA Third Team: 2001
6-time NBA All-Star: 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006
NBA All-Rookie Second Team: 1997
NBA Joe Dumars Sportsmanship Award: 2003
NBA All-Star Weekend 3-Point Shootout champion: 2001
NBA regular-season leader, 3-point field goals made: 2002 (229), 2003 (201)
NBA all-time career 3-point field goals made: 3rd with 1,704 (as of March 26, 2006)
Holds Milwaukee Bucks franchise records for most consecutive games played (400), most career three-point field goals made (1,051), and most career three-point field goals attempted (2,587).
Member of the 2000 United States Men's basketball team, which won gold at the Sydney Olympics.

Trivia

Allen played high school basketball for the former Hillcrest High School (succeeded by Crestwood High School) in Dalzell, South Carolina, taking them to a state championship.
He starred as "Jesus Shuttlesworth" in the Spike Lee film He Got Game, where he played a star high school basketball player.

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