Walter Ray Allen Jr., born on July 20, 1975, is an American former professional basketball player who played eighteen seasons in the National Basketball Association and was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2018. He is widely considered one of the greatest three-point shooters of all time and was a ten-time All-Star. After three seasons of college basketball with the Connecticut Huskies he was drafted fifth overall in 1996 and played for the Milwaukee Bucks, the Seattle SuperSonics, the Boston Celtics and the Miami Heat. With Boston he formed a Big Three with Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce and won the 2008 championship, and with Miami he won the 2013 title after a famous clutch three-pointer in Game 6 of the Finals. He won Olympic gold with the United States in 2000, retired in 2016 and also acted in films, notably He Got Game.
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is an American former professional basketball player
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American former professional basketball player
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Allen played 18 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA)
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won an Olympic gold medal as a member of the 2000 United States
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