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Game state source: whynba · Retrieved Oct 9, 5:36 pm EDTNBA legend. Named to the NBA 75th Anniversary Team and inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Biography, honors and career statistics below.
Ray Allen
Career at a glance
Ray Allen played 18 NBA regular seasons between 1996 and 2014, appearing in 1,300 games and averaging 18.9 points, 4.1 rebounds and 3.4 assists per game. He played for 4 teams: Milwaukee (1996–03, 494 games), Seattle (2002–07, 296 games), Boston (2007–12, 358 games), Miami (2012–14, 152 games). His best scoring season was 2006–07 with Seattle: 26.4 points per game over 55 games.
Championship seasons: 2007–08 (Boston), 2012–13 (Miami). In the playoffs he appeared in 11 postseason runs (171 games, 16.1 points per game). Multiplying each season’s games by its scoring average gives roughly 24,500 regular-season points (an estimate from per-game figures, not an official total).
whynba analysis of the season-by-season statistics below (Wikipedia revision, CC BY-SA 4.0). Totals are estimates from per-game averages.
About Ray Allen
Walter Ray Allen Jr. (born July 20, 1975) is an American former professional basketball player. Allen played 18 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a player in 2018. He is widely considered one of the greatest three-point shooters of all time. Allen was a ten-time NBA All-Star, and won an Olympic gold medal as a member of the 2000 United States men's basketball team. At the time of his retirement, he was the leading three-point scorer in NBA history until he was surpassed by Stephen Curry in 2021. As of 2025, he ranks third on the NBA's all-time three-pointers list. In 2021, he was selected to the NBA 75th Anniversary Team.
Allen played college basketball for the Connecticut Huskies for three seasons, before he was selected with the fifth overall pick in the 1996 NBA draft, and developed into a prolific scorer for the Milwaukee Bucks, featuring alongside Glenn Robinson and Sam Cassell as the team achieved playoff success. In 2003, he was traded to the Seattle SuperSonics, where he solidified his reputation as a scorer, breaking several league records for three-point and free throw shooting. Allen was later traded to the Boston Celtics, where he formed a "Big Three" with Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce; the team won an NBA championship in 2008. After five seasons with the Celtics, he played with the Miami Heat for two seasons, reaching the NBA Finals both times and winning the title in 2013; his clutch three-pointer to force overtime in Game 6 of the 2013 Finals is regarded as one of the most iconic and memorable plays in NBA history. Allen retired on November 1, 2016, after playing for four different teams.
During his NBA career, Allen acted in some films, such as his role as basketball prodigy Jesus Shuttlesworth in Spike Lee's basketball drama He Got Game (1998). Allen's performance as Shuttlesworth was praised by critics, and the name was borrowed as Allen's basketball nickname.
- Born
- July 20, 1975 (age 51) Merced, California, U.S.
- Listed height
- 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)
- Listed weight
- 205 lb (93 kg)
- Position
- Shooting guard
- High school
- Hillcrest (Dalzell, South Carolina)
- College
- UConn (1993–1996)
- NBA draft
- 1996: 1st round, 5th overall pick
- Playing career
- 1996–2014
Career highlights and awards
- 2× NBA champion (2008, 2013)
- 10× NBA All-Star (2000–2002, 2004–2009, 2011)
- All-NBA Second Team (2005)
- All-NBA Third Team (2001)
- NBA Three-Point Contest champion (2001)
- NBA All-Rookie Second Team (1997)
- NBA 75th Anniversary Team
- UPI Player of the Year (1996)
- Consensus first-team All-American (1996)
- Big East Player of the Year (1996)
- 2× First-team All-Big East (1995, 1996)
- USA Basketball Male Athlete of the Year (1995)
- No. 34 retired by UConn Huskies
- South Carolina Mr. Basketball (1993)
Career statistics
| Year | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996–97 | Milwaukee | 82 | 81 | 30.9 | .430 | .393 | .823 | 4.0 | 2.6 | .9 | .1 | 13.4 |
| 1997–98 | Milwaukee | 82* | 82* | 40.1 | .428 | .364 | .875 | 4.9 | 4.3 | 1.4 | .1 | 19.5 |
| 1998–99 | Milwaukee | 50* | 50* | 34.4 | .450 | .356 | .903 | 4.2 | 3.6 | 1.1 | .1 | 17.1 |
| 1999–00 | Milwaukee | 82 | 82* | 37.4 | .455 | .423 | .887 | 4.4 | 3.8 | 1.3 | .2 | 22.1 |
| 2000–01 | Milwaukee | 82 | 82* | 38.2 | .480 | .433 | .888 | 5.2 | 4.6 | 1.5 | .2 | 22.0 |
| 2001–02 | Milwaukee | 69 | 67 | 36.6 | .462 | .434 | .873 | 4.5 | 3.9 | 1.3 | .3 | 21.8 |
| 2002–03 | Milwaukee | 47 | 46 | 35.8 | .437 | .395 | .913 | 4.6 | 3.5 | 1.2 | .2 | 21.3 |
| 2002–03 | Seattle | 29 | 29 | 41.3 | .441 | .351 | .920 | 5.6 | 5.9 | 1.6 | .1 | 24.5 |
| 2003–04 | Seattle | 56 | 56 | 38.4 | .440 | .392 | .904 | 5.1 | 4.8 | 1.3 | .2 | 23.0 |
| 2004–05 | Seattle | 78 | 78 | 39.3 | .428 | .376 | .883 | 4.4 | 3.7 | 1.1 | .1 | 23.9 |
| 2005–06 | Seattle | 78 | 78 | 38.7 | .454 | .412 | .903 | 4.3 | 3.7 | 1.3 | .2 | 25.1 |
| 2006–07 | Seattle | 55 | 55 | 40.3 | .438 | .372 | .903 | 4.5 | 4.1 | 1.5 | .2 | 26.4 |
| 2007–08† | Boston | 73 | 73 | 35.9 | .445 | .398 | .907 | 3.7 | 3.1 | .9 | .2 | 17.4 |
| 2008–09 | Boston | 79 | 79 | 36.4 | .480 | .409 | .952 | 3.5 | 2.8 | .9 | .2 | 18.2 |
| 2009–10 | Boston | 80 | 80 | 35.2 | .477 | .363 | .913 | 3.2 | 2.6 | .8 | .3 | 16.3 |
| 2010–11 | Boston | 80 | 80 | 36.1 | .491 | .444 | .881 | 3.4 | 2.7 | 1.0 | .2 | 16.5 |
| 2011–12 | Boston | 46 | 42 | 34.0 | .458 | .453 | .915 | 3.1 | 2.4 | 1.1 | .2 | 14.2 |
| 2012–13† | Miami | 79 | 0 | 25.8 | .449 | .419 | .886 | 2.7 | 1.7 | .8 | .2 | 10.9 |
| 2013–14 | Miami | 73 | 9 | 26.5 | .442 | .375 | .905 | 2.8 | 2.0 | .7 | .1 | 9.6 |
| Career | 1,300 | 1,149 | 35.6 | .452 | .400 | .894 | 4.1 | 3.4 | 1.1 | .2 | 18.9 | |
| All-Star | 10 | 0 | 20.1 | .423 | .310 | .765 | 2.6 | 2.2 | 1.1 | .2 | 14.5 |
| Year | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Milwaukee | 3 | 3 | 40.0 | .532 | .474 | .615 | 7.3 | 4.3 | 1.0 | .3 | 22.3 |
| 2000 | Milwaukee | 5 | 5 | 37.2 | .444 | .385 | .909 | 6.6 | 2.6 | 1.6 | .0 | 22.0 |
| 2001 | Milwaukee | 18 | 18 | 42.7 | .477 | .479 | .919 | 4.1 | 6.0 | 1.3 | .6 | 25.1 |
| 2005 | Seattle | 11 | 11 | 39.6 | .474 | .378 | .889 | 4.3 | 3.9 | 1.3 | .4 | 26.5 |
| 2008† | Boston | 26‡ | 26‡ | 38.0 | .428 | .396 | .913 | 3.8 | 2.7 | .9 | .3 | 15.6 |
| 2009 | Boston | 14 | 14 | 40.4 | .403 | .350 | .948 | 3.9 | 2.6 | 1.1 | .4 | 18.3 |
| 2010 | Boston | 24 | 24 | 38.5 | .431 | .386 | .863 | 3.3 | 2.6 | .9 | .1 | 16.1 |
| 2011 | Boston | 9 | 9 | 40.1 | .523 | .571 | .960 | 3.8 | 2.4 | 1.2 | .1 | 18.9 |
| 2012 | Boston | 18 | 10 | 34.2 | .395 | .304 | .711 | 4.1 | 1.0 | .9 | .1 | 10.7 |
| 2013† | Miami | 23 | 0 | 24.9 | .430 | .406 | .870 | 2.8 | 1.3 | .5 | .1 | 10.2 |
| 2014 | Miami | 20 | 1 | 26.4 | .413 | .388 | .919 | 3.4 | 1.6 | .7 | .2 | 9.3 |
| Career | 171 | 121 | 35.5 | .443 | .401 | .883 | 3.8 | 2.6 | 1.0 | .2 | 16.1 |
| Year | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993–94 | Connecticut | 34 | 0 | 21.6 | .510 | .402 | .792 | 4.6 | 1.4 | 1.1 | .2 | 12.6 |
| 1994–95 | Connecticut | 32 | 31 | 32.8 | .489 | .445 | .727 | 6.8 | 2.3 | 1.9 | .5 | 21.1 |
| 1995–96 | Connecticut | 35 | 35 | 34.7 | .472 | .466 | .810 | 6.5 | 3.3 | 1.7 | .5 | 23.4 |
| Career | 101 | 66 | 29.7 | .487 | .448 | .779 | 6.0 | 2.4 | 1.6 | .4 | 19.0 |
Per-game averages. † won an NBA championship · * led the league · ‡ NBA record (as marked).
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- Height
- 6′ 5″
- Weight
- 205 lb
- Position
- Shooting guard
- Jersey
- Not listed
- Country
- USA
- School / last affiliation
- Not listed
- Draft year
- 1996
- Draft pick
- Round 1 · Pick 5
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