Q:James Randall (Randy) Allen (born January 26 1965 in Milton Florida) is a retired American professional basketball player. A 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) forward from Florida State University Allen was never drafted by an NBA team but did manage to play two years in the league from 1988 to 1990 with the Sacramento Kings. In his NBA career Allen played in 70 games and scored a total of 252 points. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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Athlete