Reggie Miller

Biography

Reggie Miller was born with osseous problems with the hip. The doctors diagnosed that it could never go correctly. It belongs to a family of sportsmen: his/her sister Cheryl is also a player of basketball become since journalist sporting and his/her brother was a professional player of Base-ball. It is in the matches against his/her sister that Reggie learned the competition and the rudiments from the tennis shoe.

Reggie was selected in the draft 1987 by the Indiana Pacers after a university career with the the University of California to Los Angeles (UCLA). There remained faithful to the Pacers throughout its 18 years of career.

Miller is known to be one of the best gunners at three points of the history of tennis shoe NBA and in particular in the decisive situations. At the end of the season 2004, Miller had marked and tried more shootings at three points in her career than any other player NBA (turning with 39,5 % on the whole of its career). Reggie Miller was the " a long time; bourreau" New York Knicks: at the time of the fifth match of the finale of Conference Is 1994 it marks 39 points including 25 in last quarter-time to allow Pacers to beat Knicks in residence and to take the advantage 3 handles with 2 in the series.

In 1994, for the Championship of the world FIBA, it was the last selected and appointed captain of the team. It finished the championship as second marker of the team of the United States with 16,3 points of average (first is Shaquille O'Neal with 17,1)

The May 7th 1995, at the time of the first sleeve of the semi-finals of Conference Is vis-a-vis New York, Reggie Miller marks 8 points in the 9 last seconds of the match: the Pacers gain the meeting of two items 109 to 107.

In 1995, Reggie is the first member of the Indiana Pacers with being selected in the five major one of a All-Star Range NBA.

Selected in 1996 for the Olympic Games where it gained the gold medal, it marked 10,1 points of average.

At the time of the season 1998, bulldozers of Chicago taken along by Michael Jordan gain 72 matches out of the 82 of the regular season. Pacers of Miller however succeed in beating the bulldozers in two of their four meetings.

In 2000, it arrives, finally, with its first and only final NBA, which it loses with its team vis-a-vis the Los Angeles Lakers of Shaquille O'Neal 4 matches with 2.

In 2002, for the Championships of the world, or of many star refused the selection of the United States, it was called in the last to bring its experiment in a young team. It joined there its fellow-member Jermaine O' Neal.

The February 15th 2005, Reggie Miller announces that it will stop its career of player of basketball at the end of the season in progress. The All-Star takes finally its retirement without title NBA, after the elimination of Pacers to the second turn of the playoffs 2005 by the Detroit Pistons. Reggie Miller will remain like a symbol of fidelity to the Pacers but also at the town of Indianapolis.

Its shirt number 31 was withdrawn from the numbers granted the players of Indiana at the time of a ceremony on March 30th, 2006.

Club

1987 - 2005:

Prize list

5 selections for the AlStar Range (1990, 1995,1996,1998,2000)
3 selections in the AlNBA Third TEAM (3rd standard team of the NBA) in 1995,1996 and 1998
Gold medal with the championship of the world 1994
Gold medal with the Olympic Games of summer of Atlanta in 1996
Player having tried and successful the most shootings at 3 points in the history of the NBA (2560 succeeded for 6486 tried)

Statistics in career: 18.2 points/3 rebounds/3 master keys/1.1 interceptions in 1389 matches of regular season (+ 144 in playoffs)

External bonds

Card on Statistical nba.com
detailed on basketball-reference.com

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