{"id":86627,"date":"2026-01-01T16:08:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T16:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/86627\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T16:08:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T16:08:46","slug":"how-a-tip-from-ray-allen-unleashed-miles-mcbrides-3-point-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/86627\/","title":{"rendered":"How a tip from Ray Allen unleashed Miles McBride&#8217;s 3-point game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN ANTONIO \u2014 Four years later, Miles McBride remembers the conversation with Ray Allen as a catalyst for leaps in his jump shooting, figuratively and literally.<\/p>\n<p>Allen, a permanent resident on the Mount Rushmore of long-distance shooters, was at MSG to pass the torch to Steph Curry, who broke Allen\u2019s all-time 3-point record on Dec. 14, 2021, against the Knicks.<\/p>\n<p>McBride logged 21 minutes in that game, a career high to that point. But back then, as a rookie, he was more of a G Leaguer <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/03\/21\/sports\/how-miles-deuce-mcbride-worked-to-make-most-of-his-knicks-shot\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">who may or may not crack an NBA rotation<\/a>. Three-point efficiency was McBride\u2019s bugaboo, and that evening he came to Allen with questions and a readiness to absorb whatever a legend was selling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe probably didn\u2019t realize I was going to lock in on whatever he was saying,\u201d McBride told Post Sports+.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2014 Four years later, Miles McBride remembers the conversation with Ray Allen as a catalyst for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4776,28586,4779,21,9,11,1104,10,4780,41919,319,428],"class_list":["post-86627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-inside-the-knicks","tag-jordan-clarkson","tag-miles-mcbride","tag-nba","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-new-york-news","tag-post-sports-newsletters","tag-ray-allen","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}