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Jon Rothstein: Jeremy Fears Jr. is withdrawing from the 2026 NBA Draft and will return to Michigan State next season, per his agent Mike Miller. Will be an All-American entering the 2026-27 season. Fears had second-round options, but opted to return to East Lansing.
Brendan Haywood: "I tell you another thing in Miami that was a microaggression that Pat Riley did. LeBron, I didn't realize it at the time until I played with LeBron in Cleveland. I was like, oh, that's what happened. LeBron wanted Rich Paul, Maverick, Randy, and Lynn Merritt. He wanted their season tickets to be right beside the Heat bench. Oh, yeah. And you remember where were their tickets? They were right beside the bench, but it was the other team's bench. See, these are the little petty things that go on and little things become big things. Pat Riley was like, nah, we don't want you to have your crew right beside the bench that you can talk to. He could have put them anywhere, but he's going to be a funny guy. So he puts them all the way at the other. They used to sit beside our bench. I always thought that was weird in real time and then when I got to talk to LeBron and Mike Miller and all those guys, I realized, oh, Pat Riley was taking a microaggression. That is just my example to show you that these type of little things happen all the time. And LeBron James felt like Pat Riley took a shot, and I guarantee you he felt Rob Pelinka took a shot by not giving that game ball to him."
Ball and Knueppel have formed a Hornets 3-point shooting duo of the future that has a new-age Splash Brothers feel to it. Charlotte has been perhaps the best story of the NBA season and authored the most surprising turnaround with a potent starting five that includes the emerging Brandon Miller, Miles Bridges and Moussa Diabate. The Hornets won 44 games after totaling just 19 wins a season ago. Only the Spurs have had a bigger turnaround this season. "Nobody's thinking that playing Charlotte is going to be an easy walkover game," Knueppel told ESPN. "Which it has been the last couple years."
Nikola Jokic: "Even then I had great veterans: Jameer Nelson, Mike Miller, Wilson Chandler, Darrell Arthur, who’s with us now. I know, I know ... Every day in the weight room. They were in the weight room every day.Every day they were in the gym. Jameer, he was dragging me around nonstop: a lunch, a dinner … I won’t name names now, but there were times in my organization where young players didn’t have the right role models and the right people to show them... to guide them. Mike Miller every time in a suit. It’s little things, but you see... that stuck with me: Mike Miller wore a suit every day.”
On Time began when Sessions’ 11-year NBA career came to an end and, during the COVID-19 pandemic, he began to reflect on his impact on the next generation of professional basketball players. Eventually, he went into his basement and began drawing the blueprints of an agency on notebooks and loose paper with a core concept: to create a player-driven firm run by someone who had actually lived the life. In 2022, after a two-year-stint as the Pelicans Director of Basketball Operations, Sessions joined a short list of former NBAers who went on to become NBPA certified and officially became an agent. The only other former NBAers to become agents are LIFT Sports Management’s Mike Miller and Seven1 Sports & Entertainment Group’s Tracy McGrady and Jermaine O’Neal. Of the quartet, only Miller and Sessions are NBPA certified.
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Jorge Sierra: Russell Westbrook passed Jason Kidd in rebounds for No. 63 all-time. Also: Jrue Holiday moved ahead of Mike Miller and D'Angelo Russell in three-pointers for No. 43 in NBA history.
Shams Charania: Breaking: Orlando Magic star Paolo Banchero has agreed to a five-year maximum rookie contract extension that could reach $287 million, Mike Miller of LIFT Sports Management tells ESPN. Deal includes a player option; the first for a rookie max since 2021 (Luka Doncic, Trae Young).
"T-Mac, I'm telling you dog, listen — T-Mac was another level," Pierce said on Paul George's podcast. As terrific as McGrady was, he couldn't do it alone. In Orlando, the best players he played with were an oft-injured Grant Hill and a young Mike Miller. In Houston, he had the pleasure of playing with Chinese phenom Yao Ming. However, the 7'6" behemoth also dealt with a litany of injuries and was already out of the NBA after just eight seasons. "He needed that one other superstar. If you had to put T-Mac with KG, if you had to put T-Mac with Shaq, you know, yeah," Paul stressed. "People be like, 'Oh he played with Yao.' Yao was kind of hurt. He was in and out. And like, you put T-Mac with LeBron, man come on."
KC Johnson: Fun fact about Bulls’ first-round pick Noa Essengue: He’s represented by LIFT Sports Management, the agency co-founded by Billy Donovan’s prize recruit at Florida, Mike Miller
Sean Cunningham: Doug Christie's Sacramento Kings coaching staff is official: Associate head coach Mike Woodson, Bobby Jackson, Mike Miller, Chris Darnell & Leandro Barbosa are assistants. Dipesh Mistry elevated to asst. coach/player development. Paul Jesperson (head of player development) joined by Jimmy Alapag & Garrius Adams. Will Scott (coaching asst/advance scout), Shandon "Biggie" Goldman as head video coordinator & Steph Ingo as asst. video coordinator.
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Mike Miller on Kobe Bryant elbowing him: Unfortunately, he's in heaven. He's missed, man. Like, he was the best. But he knows if I'm lying right now, so I can't lie. It was an unintentional elbow I hit him with. It was unintentional. But I'll be honest, I loved his competitiveness. I didn't like the fact that my team didn't really have my back when he freaking took my jugular out. But like that's what he's supposed to do. And the NBA called me after that and they talked about I said that it's a a basketball play like you know I but we had good conversation. I actually almost went there in my free agency year when I went to Miami. I talked to Kobe multiple times. I talked to Phil [Jackson] and I almost went there because he was one of my favorites, because I love that competitive stuff, he was unbelievable.
ClutchPoints: "I gave him the nickname 'The Joker' because I couldn't say, 'Jokic past the f*cking ball.' So I said, 'Joker pass the ball.'" Mike Miller on how he came up with the nickname for former Nuggets teammate Nikola Jokic 🃏 (via @PodcastPShow )
Michael A. Scotto: The Sacramento Kings are expected to add Mike Miller as an assistant coach to Doug Christie’s staff, league sources told @hoopshype. Miller was a former Knicks interim head coach and G League Coach of the Year. Since then, he’s been an assistant coach with the Thunder and Wizards
In her Monday ruling, Chumney said Holloway's testimony about the incident was not credible and contradicts testimony from other witnesses. Among those was former NBA player Mike Miller, who was at the house when the fight occurred. Miller testified that Holloway hitting Morant "in the face with a basketball 'kind of started everything,'" the judge wrote in her April 2024 ruling.