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Boston Celtics legend Ray Allen shares his all-time starting five (plus one)

Take a look at the Shuttlesworth Six, as we have decided to call them.

As one of the greatest to shoot the rock in the history of the NBA, Hall of Fame Boston Celtics shooting guard Ray Allen knows a thing or two about the sort of excellence that sets great players apart from the very, very good ones on his way toward winning titles with the Celtics and the Miami Heat.

And the University of Connecticut alum recently used that discernment to share the players who comprise his all-time starting five, even throwing in his sixth man for good measure while speaking at a meet-and-greet attended by Fadeaway World’s Ishaan Bhattacharya (h/t Bleacher Report’s Doric Sam).

Let’s take a look at the Shuttlesworth Six, as we have decided to call them.

Celtics Hall of Famer Ray Allen adds to his CV with a BA from UConn

“It’s never too late to learn,” Allen said.

Hall of Fame Boston Celtics shooting guard Ray Allen added to his considerable list of lifetime achievements this week, but it had only a tenuous connection to the basketball career he has built over the last three decades as a player for the Connecticut Huskies, and in the NBA afterward.

The champion Celtics wing earned his bachelor’s degree in general studies from UConn 27 years after he left the school to join the league he would win two titles in as a player. “It’s never too late to learn,” Allen told the Hartford Courant’s Joe Arruda. “This day isn’t about me, it’s about the people that helped me along the way to finish this mission, be on this journey to graduate from college.”

“And you (have) got to do it by yourself but it’s made up of a lot of people around you, so I didn’t want it to be about me walking in and everybody,” he added.

“These kids are on their individual journeys, so I was so inspired to be sitting next to them and talking to them … It’s hard to really describe the feeling connected to it because it’s been a pursuit of mine for such a long time.”

“I loved my time here as a student-athlete. Fortunately and unfortunately for me, I had a higher calling at the time and it was sad for me because I left here and I really enjoyed being here as an athlete.”

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Celtics champion Ray Allen on his battles with Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant

Take a long look with us at the intense rivalry between two of the NBA’s most iconic shooting guards, Allen and Bryant.

As two of the most talented and fierce competitors of their era, Hall of Fame Boston Celtics shooting guard Ray Allen and Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant had a rivalry for the ages. In this video, the folks behind the CLNS Media “NBA history and legends” YouTube channel break down the origins of their feud, the iconic head-to-head matchups, and how their rivalry helped shape their legacies in the basketball world.

Take a long look with us at the intense rivalry between two of the NBA’s most iconic shooting guards, Allen and Bryant. This video explores the heated battles, jaw-dropping moments and mutual respect that defined this epic on-court clash.

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Ray Allen on his time with the Seattle SuperSonics, UConn Huskies

The Celtics alum recently spoke on his time on the court before he got to Boston.

Many of us basketball fans in southern New England remember Hall of Fame Boston Celtics shooting guard Ray Allen for his time playing basketball at the University of Connecticut or for winning titles in green and white near the end of his career.

A not-small contingent of Celtics fans are not over his decampment to the Miami Heat, but others think fondly of his arrival from the (then) Seattle SuperSonics to complete the star-studded cast that hung Banner 17 back in 2008. Jesus Shuttlesworth had game long before he got to Boston, even if that’s where he won his first ring.

The South Carolina native recently appeared on the “Dan Patrick Show” to talk about his time with the Huskies and playing ball in the Pacific Northwest as UConn worked toward winning the program’s fifth national title.

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Celtics champion Ray Allen on how a hotel burglary made March Madness malicious

The former Celtics shooting guard shares a story of how a UConn postseason run went awry off of the court.

Making the NCAA Tournament is more often than not the memory of a lifetime for a young basketball player. However, former Boston Celtic Ray Allen’s crack at the “Big Dance” was memorable for all the wrong reasons.

When he was representing UConn in the NCAA Tournament, Connecticut’s hotel rooms were burglarized while the team lost to UCLA.

“We get back to the hotel and somebody broke into our hotel and stole all our stuff,” said Allen in a recent interview with the “Dan Patrick Show.”

“Everything that was of value to me at that time was stolen from me,” explained the South Carolina native.

To hear the tale in full, listen to the clip embedded above to hear how one shining moment can occasionally turn into one major inconvenience.

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Trio of Boston Celtics land among best-supported stars in title seasons

How willing were the Celtics to spend on their team in the last era of title contention?

NBA analyst Frank Urbina of our sister site Hoops Hype recently put together a comprehensive analysis of how much each team possessing the contract of some of the NBA’s biggest stars over the past three decades was supported by the willingness to spend to surround those stars with the talent needed to compete for titles, with a trio of Boston Celtics making the cut.

Per Urbina, H/H ranked players who debuted after 1990 “based on much their teams spent relative to the league average during their time in the league” given that “it’s a bit harder to win titles when your team’s owner is not spending big bucks” to get the supporting cast such ventures require.

Let’s take a look at where the three Celtics alumni who would qualify as stars in the era they played for Boston (sorry, Shaquille O’Neal, had your health been better, you might have made this list for Boston as well).

What Boston Celtics are the highest earners from their NCAA schools?

As the 2023 NCAA Tourney unfolds, we look back on which Celtics alumni made the most money in the NBA from their respective schools.

With the entirety of college basketball fandom and then some focused on the 2023 NCAA Tournament as we inch closer to crowning a national champion at that level of the sport, attention to the college roots of the players of today and yesteryear also comes into momentary focus.

We can look back at the collegiate history of the Boston Celtics‘ top players, for example, and find a number of the storied ball club’s alumni are also among the highest earners for their respective schools at the NBA level. At blue blood schools like UConn, Duke, and Kansas to lesser-decorated but still well-represented universities like LSU, Arkansas, and Oklahoma, Celtics alumni have made a pretty penny at the NBA level.

Let’s take a look at which Celtics alumni are the top earners in the NBA for their respective colleges in the modern era.

On this day: Bird goes for 31 vs. Mavs, and Antoine Walker 22 vs. Raptors

On this day in Celtics history, Larry Bird scored 31 points vs. the Mavericks, and Antoine Walker 22 points, and 11 boards vs. the Raptors.

On this day in Boston Celtics history, three games of note were won by the storied ball club during recent decades. The first of the trio was a 111-98 home win that took place at the old Boston Garden against the Dallas Mavericks in 1990.

Hall of Fame Celtics small forward Larry Joe Bird led all scorers with 31 points. The Hick From French Lick (as Bird was sometimes called as a nickname) added 12 rebounds and 5 assists on 13-of-22 shooting, including going 2-of-4 from beyond the arc, and power forward Michael Smith added 21 points and 5 boards.

Wing Reggie Lewis chipped in 16 points, 9 rebounds, and 5 assists to help secure the win for Boston.

On this day: Ray Allen breaks 3-point record; Walter A. Brown born

On this day in Celtics history, Ray Allen broke the all-time NBA record for made 3-pointers, and team founder Walter A. Brown was born.

On this day in Boston Celtics history, champion Celtic shooting guard Ray Allen broke Reggie Miller’s all-time made 3-point shot record in 2011.

It came in a 92-86 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers, which took some of the shine off the event, but Miller – who held the previous record of 2,560 3-pointers made – was in the audience to congratulate Allen. Ray held the record (2,973 career made 3-pointers), and while several active players are above 2,000 career makes, it remains to be seen whether anyone will pass the current owner of the accomplishment in the short term, Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry.

At present, he broke the record on Dec. 14, 2021, and holds the record as of this writing.

Hall of Fame Celtics guard Ray Allen on how he fell in love with the game of basketball

The 2008 Boston champ had plenty to say about his formative years with the sport.

Only fans of the Boston Celtics who are too young to remember that 2008 NBA champion Ray Allen‘s career in film may not be aware that he has game. But the former UConn standout also has a love for the game — and one that started early in his life, at that.

The South Carolina native shared how he fell in love with the game of basketball in an interview with Celtics title teammate James Posey on the latter’s “Posecast” pod. And as these stories often go, a girl was involved in Jesus Shuttlesworth becoming a hoops addict on his way to a Hall of Fame career.

The duo also chat about their time together with the Celtics, Allen’s time with the Huskies, his first shoe deal, and more.

To hear what they had to say in this extended interview, check out the clip embedded above.

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