The Celtics’ Ray Allen (20) maneuvers around the Pistons’ Richard Hamilton, both UConn alums, in Game Six last night.

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DETROIT — Ray Allen is widely considered the best NBA player to ever come out of the University of Connecticut.

He’s an eight-time All Star, and he averaged more than 21 points per game in nine seasons with Milwaukee and Seattle before joining Boston this season with the hopes of winning his first NBA title.

He has gone toe-to-toe with Detroit All-Star and fellow UConn alum Richard Hamilton in the Eastern Conference finals. Hamilton has scored more postseason points and played in more playoff games than any player in Pistons history.

He has been selected an NBA All-Star three times, and earned an NBA championship ring. Hamilton is considered UConn’s second best NBA player.

Entering last night’s game Hamilton has averaged 22.2 points, and Allen has put up 17.6 points per outing when the two have faced off in the series.

Allen became the first Husky to earn back-to-back All-American honors. He led the school to at least the NCAA regional semifinals in each of his three seasons.

Allen left school after his junior year but was the third-leading scorer in UConn history (1,922 points) and the Minnesota drafted him No. 5 overall, then immediately traded him to Milwaukee.

Hamilton, who has averaged 17.9 points over his career in the regular season and 20.8 in the playoffs, led Connecticut to the NCAA championship in 1999 and he was named the Most Outstanding Player of the Final Four. Washington drafted him with the seventh pick after his junior year.

Allen served as Hamilton’s “chaperone” during his recruiting trip to UConn.

“There’s a hidden agenda between those two,” Pistons coach Flip Saunders said last week. “Who’s the best from Connecticut?”

“I don’t think any of that gets in the way of the game,” Boston coach Doc Rivers said last week of the Allen/Hamilton rivalry. “But Rip is a great player, and Ray is a great player.”

Injured Tony Allen sits again

Boston defensive specialist Tony Allen tested his injured right ankle during yesterday’s morning shoot-around, but it didn’t take long for his injured Achilles to tell him to call it quits.

“I just didn’t have any lift on my jump shot,” Allen said. “It still hurt when I pushed off.”

Allen injured his ankle at Tuesday’s practice. For the second straight game, Boston forward Brian Scalabrine was activated in his place.

“It’s very frustrating,” Allen said. “They say it’s the Achilles. I feel it a lot on the ankle, too.”

Wallace remains on shaky ground

Detroit Pistons forward Rasheed Wallace refused to talk to the media before last night’s game, but at the morning shoot-around, one reporter yelled out to Wallace while he was walking into the Pistons training room, “What do you think about the fine.”

“I knew I was going to get fined when I said it,” Wallace responded.

Wallace was penalized $25,000 by the NBA for his use of profanity and his criticism of the officiating following Wednesday night’s game.

Wallace has received six technical fouls in the playoffs. If he gets one more he will be suspended for a game.

Saunders said before last night’s game that he wasn’t concerned about the possibility of Wallace getting another technical and having to miss a game.

“He’s had a lot of people talk to him, just he knows where he’s at,” Saunders said. “He tries to watch himself, but he’s got to kind of watch the fine line of knowing that he still has to play with emotion but he can’t get carried away.

“Like I said, he understands the importance of him to the team and that he’s needed.”

Perkins perks up Rivers

Rivers wasn’t surprised that forward Kendrick Perkins had a career game Wednesday night, finishing with a career playoff-high 18 points and a career playoff-high 16 rebounds.

“When he’s aggressive and assertive the way he was the other night, he can do that every night,” Rivers said.

“Perkins is eating us up,” Saunders said. “The games that they’ve won, he’s had big games. He’s played well for them as far as on the glass.”

No love between the lines please

Detroit veteran backup guard Lindsay Hunter called out teammate Wallace in an interview with ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith, saying that Wallace should not be hugging Boston All-Star Kevin Garnett before and after games, especially after a loss.

“I dare you go up to this guy after we lost and hug and kiss him like [James] Posey does to every single [one of his teammates],” Hunter said. “[Wallace] was like, ‘Well, you know I’m paying homage.’ Homage nothing. We’re at battle right now.”

Saunders said that Hunter was joking when he made that comment and there is no bad blood among teammates in the Pistons locker room.

“Yeah, it was kind of more in jest and joking than anything else,” Saunders said. “I think they’re saying, you can maybe hug a little bit, but let’s make sure you don’t forget about hitting, getting in the post and hitting and doing those things.”

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