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NBA: 1990s All-Decade second team

By Gerald Bourguet

Feb 15, 2014; New Orleans, LA, USA; A view of the NBA logo at the NBA All Star Jam Session at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. Mandatory Credit: Bob Donnan-USA TODAY Sports
Feb 15, 2014; New Orleans, LA, USA; A view of the NBA logo at the NBA All Star Jam Session at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. Mandatory Credit: Bob Donnan-USA TODAY Sports /
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Apr 8, 2014; Los Angeles, CA, USA; TNT broadcaster Reggie Miller during the NBA game between the Houston Rockets and the Los Angeles Lakers at Staples Center. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports /

Second Team: G – Reggie Miller:

1990s Resume: 10 seasons, three-time All-NBA Third Team, four-time NBA All-Star, one-time member of the 50-40-90 club, 20.9 PPG, 3.2 APG and 3.1 RPG, 19.8 average PER

Before he was irritating Basketball Twitter with his NBA commentary, Reggie Miller enjoyed having a pretty similar effect on the rest of the league as the star of the Indiana Pacers. Though he was never able to break through and win a championship or even crack the All-NBA Second Team, Miller was one of the deadliest shooters of the decade and regularly came through as Mr. Clutch for Indiana. Add that to his affinity for smack talk and his blue collar work ethic and it’s no wonder the people of Indiana eventually grew to love him after booing his selection on draft day.

Miller was a pretty one-dimensional player in that he was pretty much relied upon to just score buckets, but boy was he one of the best at doing so from beyond the arc. Miller shot better than 41 percent from three-point range in six of 10 seasons for the decade and in the other four, he never shot lower than 37.8 percent. Considering he took nearly five three-point attempts per game in the 90s, it’s no wonder this Hall of Famer was the NBA’s all-time leader in three-pointers until Ray Allen broke his record in 2011.

Miller fell short of the Finals when his Pacers couldn’t best Jordan’s Bulls in the 1998 Eastern Conference Finals, but his career could be described perfectly by his Game 4 game-winner: a probably illegal push-off on Jordan, followed by a clutch fadeaway three-pointer for the win. It was a total “F-U” moment and the perfect example of how Miller led his teams, though his only championship series ended in defeat at the hands of the Los Angeles Lakers a few years later. However, his incredible “eight points in nine seconds” is one of the greatest playoff performances in NBA history, and although it would draw a large fine today, his choke sign to Spike Lee is an all-time classic moment of NBA s**t talk.

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