{"id":280838,"date":"2021-08-20T12:50:18","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T12:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/ray-allen-named-basketball-coach-at-miami-prep-school\/"},"modified":"2021-08-20T12:50:18","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T12:50:18","slug":"ray-allen-named-basketball-coach-at-miami-prep-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/ray-allen-named-basketball-coach-at-miami-prep-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Ray Allen named basketball coach at Miami prep school"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Hall of Fame guard Ray Allen has been named to lead the basketball programs at Gulliver Preparatory School in Miami.<\/h1>\n<h2>&#8220;We are excited to announce that we have selected Ray Allen as our new Director of Boys and Girls Basketball,&#8221; the school posted to its Twitter account Friday. &#8220;He will also serve as our Varsity Boys Basketball Head Coach. Coach Allen brings unparalleled expertise to the helm of our basketball programs. Join us in welcoming him!&#8221;<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Allen, 46, played three seasons at UConn before becoming the No. 5 overall pick in the 1996 NBA Draft. He played in 1,300 games (1,149 starts) over 18 seasons in the NBA with the Milwaukee Bucks (1996-2003), Seattle SuperSonics (2003-07), Boston Celtics (2007-12) and Miami Heat (2012-14). <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>A 10-time All-Star, he won NBA titles with the Celtics in 2008 and Heat in 2013, as well as a gold medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. He was enshrined into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2018.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>As coach, Allen undoubtedly will help the team&#8217;s long-range shooting. A career 40 percent shooter from 3-point range, Allen is the NBA&#8217;s all-time leader in 3-point field goals with 2,973, though the Golden State Warriors&#8217; Stephen Curry (2,832) is poised to pass him.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Gulliver Prep is scheduled to begin its season Nov. 30 against Sports Leadership &amp; Management, a public charter school in Miami.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Field Level Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hall of Fame guard Ray Allen has been named to lead the basketball programs at Gulliver Preparatory School in Miami. &#8220;We are excited to announce that we have selected Ray Allen as our new Director of Boys and Girls Basketball,&#8221; the school posted to its Twitter account Friday. &#8220;He will also serve as our Varsity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}