NBA Has Amnesia When It Comes to Mike Miller

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Mike Miller has become an improbably hot name among 2010 NBA free agents. The Lakers were weighing the addition of Miller before landing Steve Blake. Miller has now popped up as a potential co-star for Amar'e Stoudemire in New York City, or LeBron James in Cleveland, or Dwyane Wade in Miami, should those stars land in those locations. Some reporters have pegged Miller's demand as so high he could sign a deal larger than the mid-level exception, which comes with a starting salary above $5 million.



Apparently, all these teams have been asleep for two years. That much money for this Mike Miller?



Miller was once great. He's one of the sharpest shooters in NBA history, ranking 17th all-time in three-point field goal percentage (40.5 percent). For the first eight seasons of his NBA career, he was a great scorer, able to fill the bucket from range consistently. If you had a guard taking 10 or 15 shots a night, you wanted it to be someone as deadly efficient as Miller.



But that was, essentially, Miller's only elite skill. He was an average rebounder, an efforted but often overmatched defender and an only slightly effective passer. He shot, and well, and that's all you really wanted.

 

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