Brad Miller (basketball)

Brad Miller

No. 52 – Sacramento Kings
Position	Center
Personal information
Born	(1976-04-12) April 12, 1976 Fort Wayne, Indiana
Nationality	USA
Listed height	7 ft 0 in (2.13 m)
Listed weight	236 lb (107 kg)
Career information
High school	East Noble, Maine Central Institute
College	Purdue
NBA draft	1998: Undrafted
Playing career	1998–present
Career highlights and awards
Two-time NBA All-Star
Stats at NBA.com
Stats at Basketball Reference

Brad Miller

Medal record
Representing United States
World Championships
	1998 Greece	USA
	2006 Japan	USA

Bradley Alan Miller (born April 12 1976) is an American professional basketball player, currently starting at center for the Sacramento Kings. He is also a member of the USA national basketball team. Miller was selected two times for the NBA All-Star Game.

NBA career

After college, because of the NBA lockout, Miller started his career at the club level in Italy playing for Bini Viaggi Livorno for three months before he was signed by the Charlotte Hornets as an undrafted free agent. He played for the Hornets for two seasons before signing with the Chicago Bulls as a free agent. In January 2002 he was involved in a spectacular on-court brawl with center Shaquille O'Neal of the Los Angeles Lakers. In February 2002, he was traded by the Bulls with Ron Mercer, Ron Artest and Kevin Ollie to the Indiana Pacers for Jalen Rose, Travis Best, Norman Richardson, and a second-round draft pick. In Indiana he made his first NBA All-Star Team during the 2002-2003 season.

During the 2003 offseason, he was involved in a sign-and-trade with the Sacramento Kings. He was signed to a multi-year deal by Indiana and then traded to the Kings in exchange for Scot Pollard. In the same trade, the Kings sent Hidayet Turkoglu to San Antonio Spurs, San Antonio traded Danny Ferry to Indiana and Indiana traded Ron Mercer to San Antonio. Miller made his second All-Star Game appearance during his first season with the Kings. While signing with the Kings Miller stated "I wanted to stay with Indiana but my agent said that the money I could make with Sacramento was just too good to pass up and I would never get this kind of contract again."

International career

He played for the US national team in the 1998 FIBA World Championship, winning the bronze medal, when no NBA players were involved due to the lockout.. Miller was also a member of the U.S. squad that competed in the 2006 FIBA World Championship. After much hype over the improvement of the team, the tournament ended in disappointment with a loss to Greece in the semifinal game. The team finished with the bronze medal by defeating Argentina. Despite pre-tournament assertions that the U.S. needed a good-shooting big man like Miller, he rarely played in the tournament and did not log any playing time in the decisive semifinal loss.

Player profile

Despite his size, Miller is not in the mold of a traditional center. He has only averaged double-digit rebounds once in his career and has never averaged more than 1.2 blocks per season. He prefers shooting midrange jump shots instead. But he is a very efficient scorer and one of the top-shooting big men in the league. For his career, he has averaged 49.7% from the field and 79.4% from the free throw line. The main thing that sets him apart from other centers is his passing. In 2005-2006, he averaged 4.7 assists per game, good for 29th in the league but far above what other centers averaged (Ben Wallace was second among centers with 1.9 APG.) The Princeton offense run by the Kings both allows and demands Miller to be a good passer, and he is typically recognized as one of the best-passing big men in the league. Miller has also recently added a three-point shot to his game. In 2005-2006, he attempted an average of 1.1 three pointers per game and made 38.6% of them. One of the main negatives about Miller is his durability, as he has never completed a full season. On July 10, 2008, Miller was suspended by the NBA for 5 games at the beginning of the 2008-2009 season for violations of the league's substance abuse policy. It was reported that he tested positive for marijuana for a third time.[1][2]

NBA career statistics

Legend

GP	Games played	GS	Games started	MPG	Minutes per game
FG%	Field goal percentage	3P%	3-point field goal percentage	FT%	Free throw percentage
RPG	Rebounds per game	APG	Assists per game	SPG	Steals per game
BPG	Blocks per game	PPG	Points per game	Bold	Career high

Regular season

Year	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
1998–99	Charlotte	38	0	12.3	.565	.500	.794	3.1	.6	.2	.5	6.3
1999–00	Charlotte	55	4	17.5	.461	.000	.785	5.3	.8	.4	.6	7.7
2000–01	Chicago	57	45	25.2	.435	.200	.743	7.4	1.9	.6	.7	8.9
2001–02	Chicago	48	47	29.0	.460	.500	.751	8.4	2.1	1.1	.6	12.7
2001–02	Indiana	28	28	31.1	.562	.333	.823	7.9	1.8	.9	.4	15.1
2002–03	Indiana	73	72	31.1	.493	.313	.818	8.3	2.6	.9	.6	13.1
2003–04	Sacramento	72	53	36.4	.510	.316	.778	10.3	4.3	.9	1.2	14.1
2004–05	Sacramento	56	56	37.3	.524	.263	.812	9.3	3.9	1.2	1.2	15.6
2005–06	Sacramento	79	79	37.0	.495	.386	.828	7.8	4.7	.8	.8	15.0
2006–07	Sacramento	63	56	28.3	.453	.152	.772	6.4	3.6	.6	.6	9.0
2007–08	Sacramento	72	72	34.9	.463	.311	.848	9.5	3.7	1.0	1.0	13.4
Career		641	512	30.1	.489	.313	.799	7.8	3.0	.8	.7	12.1
All-Star		2	0	13.5	.667	.000	.500	4.5	1.5	.0	.0	6.5

Playoffs

Year	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
1999–00	Charlotte	4	0	15.5	.529	.000	.800	3.3	.8	.0	.8	7.5
2001–02	Indiana	5	5	36.0	.455	.000	.800	9.8	1.4	.8	.4	11.2
2002–03	Indiana	6	6	22.5	.450	.000	.727	5.5	2.5	.8	.0	8.7
2003–04	Sacramento	12	0	30.5	.527	.143	.604	8.7	3.2	.8	.9	10.5
2004–05	Sacramento	5	4	27.8	.575	.000	.714	3.8	3.2	.2	.6	11.2
2005–06	Sacramento	6	6	27.7	.404	.143	.923	3.0	2.5	1.2	.8	9.2
Career		38	21	27.6	.489	.125	.720	6.2	2.5	.7	.6	9.9

External links

• Template:Basketball-reference
• NBA.com Profile - Brad Miller