🏀 Autographed Ray Allen 35x39 Framed Seattle SuperSonics Green Basketball Jersey Beckett BAS COA — The Authenticated Framed Signed Seattle SuperSonics Green Jersey of the Two-Time NBA Champion, the UConn Bulldog Who Held the All-Time NBA Three-Point Record, and the Man Whose Corner Three in Game 6 of the 2013 NBA Finals Sent the Season into Overtime and Changed the Championship Story of Modern Basketball

🏀 Ray Allen made a shot on June 18, 2013, in Miami, that basketball people will be describing for the rest of their lives. The San Antonio Spurs were five seconds away from their fifth NBA championship. The Miami Heat were down by three, the shot clock had expired on the key possession, LeBron James had put up a three that missed and the crowd was already moving, and then Ray Allen — reading the entire offensive sequence while simultaneously sliding his feet to the corner of the three-point arc — caught the ball, set his feet in a space that should have already been a celebration, and released the shot that tied the game. The ball went in. Overtime. Miami won in overtime. They won Game 7 the next night. And the shot that made it possible is now simply called "The Shot," because every basketball fan alive in June 2013 knows exactly which shot you mean when you say those two words.

🏀 But before that shot in Miami, and before the 2008 championship in Boston, and before the 2007 trade that sent him to the Celtics, Ray Allen was a Seattle SuperSonic. He arrived in the Pacific Northwest in 2003 in a trade from the Milwaukee Bucks — a 6-foot-5 shooting guard with one of the most mechanically pure three-point releases in the history of the game, a player who had been developing his craft since his UConn days and had spent his Milwaukee career establishing himself as one of the best offensive players in the Eastern Conference without ever getting the supporting cast that championship contention requires. In Seattle, Allen was the franchise player for four seasons: averaging over 23 points per game in the 2005-06 season, creating offense in a Sonics system built entirely around his ability to get open and make the shot, and wearing the green and gold of the SuperSonics with the kind of professional excellence that the Seattle fan base still remembers in the years since the franchise departed for Oklahoma City.

🏀 Allen was born on July 20, 1975, in Merced, California — born on a military base where his father was stationed, which set the pattern for a childhood that moved around the country and eventually settled in a basketball environment that produced one of the most accomplished careers the shooting guard position has ever seen. He played his college basketball at the University of Connecticut under head coach Jim Calhoun, winning the 1999 NCAA championship and establishing himself as the player who had been recruited to UConn as part of the program's transformation into a national powerhouse. The Minnesota Timberwolves selected him 5th overall in the 1996 NBA Draft before trading him to Milwaukee — and what followed across Milwaukee, Seattle, Boston, and Miami was a Hall of Fame career that accumulated 2,973 three-pointers and two championship rings and ended with Allen as the most accurate and prolific three-point shooter in the history of the game until Steph Curry eventually rewrote the record.

🏀 The Seattle SuperSonics green jersey in this framed 35x39 presentation is the uniform of Allen's prime years in the Northwest — the green and gold that the Sonics wore before they became the Oklahoma City Thunder, the jersey that a city still misses and a generation of Pacific Northwest basketball fans still remembers with the kind of affection that departed franchises leave behind them. Beckett Authentication Services (BAS) COA provides independent third-party certification of the signature's authenticity. Condition: NOS.

🏀 Ray Allen. Merced, California. University of Connecticut Huskies. Milwaukee Bucks. Seattle SuperSonics. Boston Celtics. Miami Heat. 2x NBA Champion (2008, 2013). All-Time NBA Three-Point Record Holder. 10x NBA All-Star. The Corner Three — 2013 NBA Finals Game 6. Signed Seattle SuperSonics Green Basketball Jersey. Beckett BAS COA. Framed 35x39. Hall of Fame Sports Memorabilia. Condition: NOS.