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Article: Nice game ... Senator? Blessed with all-around skills and an impeccable image, Ray Allen has the Bucks shooting for an NBA title on the court and his own lofty aspirations off it. (Interview: Ray Allen).(National Basketball Association)(Statistical Data Included)(Interview)
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- Basketball Digest
- Article date:
- January 1, 2002
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ONE THING IS CLEAR: RAY Allen has changed. Maybe not in his own eyes, but in the eyes of anyone who follows the game. Before May 2001, Allen was a star with a sweet shot off a super-quick release, and ... hey, wasn't he in that Spike Lee movie with Denzel Washington?
May 2001 was when the Milwaukee Bucks played the balance of their 18 exhilarating and agonizing postseason games. For Allen, the playoffs were a once-in-a-lifetime explosion that catapulted him from star to game-breaker. 25.1 ppg, 6.0 apg, and 4.1 rpg in 42.7 mpg, capped off by stellar 48% shooting from the arc. And in his 17th game of the postseason, Milwaukee's crucial win-or-take-your-ball-home ...