Trash Talk is the time for NBA players to start swearing before the game, which not only improves the attention of NBA games.
And it has also become the talk of people in the future, as well as the personal characteristics of some NBA players.
Three-pointer, one of the most important offensive means in NBA at present, is also a powerful weapon to chase points and kill the game at a critical moment.
But if all these three elements are brought together in one player, I will immediately see that he is not strong.
But at the same time, he has a very powerful heart.
He is a thorn in Jordan's side. Jordan said, "If I don't beat him, I won't feel peaceful." Not just because of the Trash Talk in the NBA rookie season.
Moreover, in the Eastern Conference finals, he pushed Jordan away, threw a three-point winner, succeeded in killing himself with 0.7 seconds left in the game, and chased the big score to 2-2.
He is also well-known at Madison Garden at home and abroad, using 8.9 seconds in the fourth quarter to score 8 points in a row, leading the team to turn defeat into victory, leaving the opponent desperate.
This NBA superstar, who devoted all his NBA career 18 years to the Pacers, has become the basketball symbol of the whole city, and even the outside media named him Indiana Totem.
Today, let's walk into the story of this NBA legend.
Height 2m 1, from Indiana Pacers, reggie miller,1born in California, USA on August 24th, 965.
The four children in Miller's family are all athletes when they grow up. My brother plays for Major League Baseball, and my two sisters are a volleyball player and a member of the national basketball team at the Olympic Games.
However, Miller's growth process is somewhat different from that of his brothers and sisters at home. Because when he was born, he was born with congenital hip deformity.
Don't talk about playing ball. Miller can't even walk like a normal child. He has to rely on assistive devices. After many years, Miller's legs finally got rid of the assistive devices.
Encouraged and supported by her sister who loves basketball, reggie miller gradually fell in love with basketball.
Sister has naturally become the object of his constant learning, but in front of her stronger sister, he can hardly take advantage of it.
Miller's every shot will be covered. In order to avoid his sister's attack, he decided to practice three-pointers.
At the same time, in order to become an NBA basketball player, Miller set himself a goal of shooting 700 three-pointers every day.
After graduating from local high school, Miller entered UCLA, a famous basketball school, and began to play in NCAA. In his sophomore year, his nature of winning the game began to appear.
Once in the game of 1987 1 24th, he hit a three-pointer 7.3m away from the basket. Miller helped the team beat the opponent 6 1-59, and even set a record of 33 points in the first half a month later.
When he decided to leave the NCAA for the NBA challenge, reggie miller had already written his name in the second place in UCLA's school history scoring list.
Ranked first is Tiangou Jabbar, an old senior in reggie miller.
No one thinks that such a thin young man, who was born with a disability, can achieve something in the world of basketball, but his hard work and strong self-discipline in NCAA.
Reggie miller still holds UCLA's record of scoring the most points in a single season, scoring the highest points per game and hitting the most free throws in a single season.
Miller said in an interview: Because when I was young, 1v 1 was often beaten by my sister, I was very thin and my face looked very Nice.
So he must have a weapon that can defend himself, so that thing is his mouth. reggie miller began to talk Trash Talk in high school.
After arriving in NCAA, in addition to his wonderful performance on the court, his Trash Talk skill is getting stronger and stronger.
After 1 1 in the first round of1in 1987 was selected by the walking horse, Miller and Pacers in the rookie game played a training match with Jordan and Bulls somewhere. Players who have a certain position in the NBA like Jordan will not play very seriously in the warm-up match.
At the same time, there is another player on reggie miller's team, Chuck Persson, who likes Trash Talk. He said to Miller, Can you believe it? Michael Jordan, the guy everyone has been talking about? It's like Jordan has a flying skill. You just electrocuted him! You should choke him.
Miller felt very reasonable after listening to it. He went up to Jordan and said, Michael Jordan, who do you think you are? The great Michael Jordan? Yes, but now there is a new boss!
Jordan didn't say anything but shook his head. At the end of the first half, reggie miller scored 10 while Jordan scored only 4 points.
During this period, he also kept talking about Jordan. As a result, by the end of the game, Jordan scored 44 points and Miller scored 12 points.
In the second half, Jordan completed the counterattack with a score of 40:2. When the Bulls were about to leave the stadium, Jordan said to him: reggie miller, you should be careful. Don't talk to Michael Jordan Black Jesus like this in the future.
In the rookie season of NBA, reggie miller can score 10 points as a substitute for the Pacers. In the second NBA season, reggie miller became the main player and successfully led the Pacers into the NBA playoffs in the third year.
In 1992, Persson, who provoked reggie miller to choke Jordan, left the team, and reggie miller became the Pacers' main scorer.
In the NBA match against Charlotte Hornets on 1992 1 1 28th, Miller scored 57 points, which was not only the highest score in his NBA career, but also the highest score in an NBA game and the Pacers.
In just five years, from the replacement of the NBA rookie season to the absolute main force of the Pacers, this also has a lot to do with his self-discipline, because reggie miller's father is the US Air Force
Influenced by his father since childhood, as long as he has made his own plans and goals, he will carry them out to the end. reggie miller manages his time even better than Show Lo.
It is said that he only has six pieces of toast, two fried eggs and sausages and two glasses of orange juice for lunch every day, and has kept it for many years.
I started to handle personal affairs at 12: 45, took a nap after half an hour, left for the arena at 13:45, started training at 4:30, and stretched my ligament at 5: 00.
Reggie miller persisted in this boring habit day after day.
But it is also often said by the outside world that the outstanding performance on the court has nothing to do with miracle or luck, but only the result of long-term persistence.
However, reggie miller, who is extremely self-disciplined, only gave up the warm-up plan and went to the hospital to see her good friend before the game on March 4, 1997/KLOC-0. Her name is Bianca.
Is a little girl infected with children's AIDS, she said to reggie miller at the last moment of her life: Reggie, I'm fine, because the angel is with me. "
He met the little girl in 1994. In the same year, reggie miller was also tied by the red line of fate with a team on the court, new york Knicks.
1 June, 9941,G5 of the Eastern Conference Finals was being held in Madison Garden. new york Nick led the horse walker by 20 points when he was at his best in the first three quarters, and entered the fourth quarter with a lead of 12 points.
During the game, the famous American director is also a big fan of the Knicks. Spike Lee shouted at Miller in the audience: Hey, Reggie, what's wrong with you today?
And in the process, he constantly outputs his powerful Trash Talk, and as the benchmark of the NBA Trash Talk, reggie miller seems to have been given a shot in the arm.
He has never quarreled with the fans of the other side, but it will start this night. After the game, the players on the field commented that reggie miller's performance at that time was the same as Jordan's.
In the fourth quarter, he didn't miss a shot, fired wildly, made all five three-pointers, and stormed off with 25 points. In the first three quarters, he only got 14 points. When he saw the scoreboard, the Pacers overtook the score.
Reggie Miller, the king of mouth guns, and Spike Lee, the great director, swore at each other madly on the court. Even after he scored one after another, he made a gesture of pinching his neck at Spike Lee.
In this way, Miller got angry with the opposing fans and scored wildly on the court. He led the Pacers to win 93-86 in front of Patrick Ewing.
A year later, in the same venue and opponent, reggie miller and Pacers once again met new york Nick in the semi-final of NBA East, still familiar with G5, and new york people have been preparing for revenge for a long time.
But new york Nick didn't think that on this day, they will become a part of history, but new york Nick's position belongs to the background board.
And that first hero is the man who created the "Miller Time" Miller moment. When reggie miller had only 18.7 seconds left in the fourth quarter, Nick was still 6 points ahead of the Pacers.
New york Nick is very wary of reggie miller doing the same thing as a year ago. It turns out that new york Nick's worry is correct.
Because he is creating greater moments.
After receiving the player's pass, Miller jumped directly from the three-point line and hit it. Then the Pacers pressed the whole court, and he successfully intercepted it in front of his opponent, dribbling the ball outside the three-point line and hitting it again.
At that time of the game, only 5.5 seconds passed from 18.7 seconds to 13.2 seconds, and it took Miller 5.5 seconds to hit two three-pointers to equalize the score, and then Nick's own players missed the free throw.
Miller was fouled after rebounding, and made a steady penalty at the free throw line, followed by new york's last attack, accompanied by a whistle.
Reggie miller once again made a great reversal in new york and Madison Garden, creating his own Miller moment of 8.9 seconds and 8 points.
Although the first contest between Miller and new york Nick completed an epic reversal, the Pacers still lost the remaining two games and missed the NBA Finals.
The second time, reggie miller created his own Miller moment.
New york was defeated in the NBA semi-final, but Miller and O 'Neill fought magic for seven games in the NBA Eastern Conference final, and it was a pity that they lost.
The Pacers' next entry into the NBA Eastern Conference finals will have to wait until the 1997-98 season three years later, and the Pacers' opponent is that one, who was blasted after the mouth shot in Miller's rookie season.
In 1993, Trash Talk fought with his men, Michael Jordan and Chicago Bulls, and this year, the tenacious Miller and Pacers were also called by Jordan, who were the opponents who brought the most trouble to themselves except the pistons of the bad boys' corps.
Miller scored 13 in the last 4 minutes 10 second of G3, and at the last moment of G4, he pushed aside Jordan to hit the winner's three-pointer, leading the score to 96:94.
When the timer adjusted the time from 0.4 seconds back to 0.7 seconds, Miller and his party did not completely relax after the celebration, because the opponent was the bull that aimed to win three consecutive championships twice.
Jordan also received a pass from his teammates at the three-point line, leaped into the air and threw a buzzer for three points, but the ball did not enter the net, but bounced out after rolling around.
The Bulls regretted losing, although in the end, the Bulls laughed 4-3 in this NBA series.
And the Bulls won the final NBA championship, but reggie miller's 0.7-second lore is undoubtedly another shot that can go down in NBA history.
And after many, many years, he said in a very relaxed tone in his speech in the Hall of Fame:
Yes, I pushed it. I have never explained it publicly, but I pushed it. The referee didn't punish me, but I have also seen Michael Jordan push many people.
Although the two players had an argument on the court and both created great moments for each other, after many years, Miller and Jordan had already cleared up their differences.
Some people say that he is both a devil and an angel. He is not stingy with his Trash Talk to anger his opponents on the court, and even had a fight with Jordan and Kobe because of this incident.
However, he gave his youth and blood for 18 years to the pedestrians, and after getting to know Bianca, who suffered from childhood AIDS, he went to accompany her every weekend for several years until the last moment of her life.
By the end of his career, many players were suspended because of the fight at auburn hills Palace, and he stood up to help the Pacers score, and he was a respected predecessor in the Pacers.
On April 4th, 2005/kloc-0, Jermaine ONeal scored 55 points with 1 minute 43 seconds left in the game, but he chose to take a rest.
Because reggie miller's scoring record was 57 points before this, he got a long suspension from his opponent's head coach in the last game of his career.
Let the pacers' home audience cheer and thank the legend.
They all held up "thank you" signs in their hands.
And he scored 25279 points in his career.
Indiana totem elected to the NBA Hall of Fame in 20 12.
Height 2m 1, from Indiana Pacers, reggie miller.