The first person with "fake call" was the first player, and an ordinary player scored 52 points on the All-Stars, but he was not the starter!

is the earliest "old six" in the league, and Andre Miller never speaks by bounce. He will suddenly cancel the backswing and make a layup with a quick step when you think he is going to call a timeout, which will make his teammates stunned and the opponent dumbfounded. The referee has no choice but to spread his hands. He relied on this "fake timeout" move and was once elected as the most ugly player in the NBA. It’s not that he looks ugly, but that his playing style is almost “zero editing value” in the short video era today. But it was this man who wanted to fast forward with a glance. He once scored a career-high 52 points on the head of the league's top point guard Kidd. In the winter of 2010, 34-year-old Miller made the front page headlines in major sports media across the United States. In that game, he made 22 of 25 shots, with a shooting percentage of up to 71%, only making one three-pointer, and the rest was all based on mid-range shots and low-post backs, which made the Mavericks' defense line go bad. And the target of this scoring explosion was Kidd, who was known for his defense. What's even more slutty is that Miller still has the leisure to finish the game after the game: "I would have known that I would have taken 60 or 70 times, but this time I took a little light." Can you imagine a "common point guard" who averaged 12 points per game. After slashing 52 points on the All-Star point guard, he said with regret, "Can I actually get more"?

But in such a big scene, Mr. He has lived a start in hell since he was a child. He grew up in the Luowas community in southern Los Angeles, and also adhered to the most primitive jungle rule on the basketball court: the loser will be smashed by the winning side with a basketball from a few meters away. Whoever dares to hide will have to replace him. People who grew up in this environment are either beaten or hardened. Miller belongs to the latter. Only on the days when he saved up enough $8 occasionally can he buy a mountaintop ticket at Staples Stay and watch his idol magician Johnson play from a distance.

But Miller didn't learn the romance and flower life of the magician. He does not dunk for layups, does not shoot elegantly, and only pays attention to "safeiest" in passing. He looks like an out of date no matter how he looks. But it was this alien who was taken aback by the famous Utah coach Rick Majerus at first sight and brought into the NCAA. There, he left behind many famous scenes at the level of unofficial history. In the 1998 NCAA quarterfinals, he scored a large triple-double and led the team to eliminate the top point guard "White Devil" Mike Bibby in the United States; then in the semi-finals, he scored 16 points, 14 rebounds and 7 assists in the head-on position with Vince Carter, bringing the seventh seed Utah University into the finals. This courage also made him selected by the Cleveland Cavaliers with the 8th overall pick in the 1999 draft.

But the problem is coming. Miller is the kind of player who takes him as the protagonist and the audience will refund the tickets on the spot. He is not fancy, not dunked, not funny, and not talkative. In the 2000 All-Star Rookie, White Chocolate was showing off her elbow pass, and what was Miller doing? He was performing layups for the common people, and the scene was as quiet as a library. That time was the only time in his career that he had an intersection with the word "all-star". Although he averaged 16.5 points and 10.8 assists per game with the Cavaliers, his disdain for viewing made the team's senior management furious. So as soon as the rookie contract arrived, he was sent away. After that, he went to multiple teams, including the Clippers, Nuggets, 76ers, Trail Blazers, Wizards, and Kings. None of them could keep him for too long. Some people say he is like a homeless man, and some people say he is like a knight's retribution. But don't forget that in the first round of the 2005 playoffs, he scored 30+ in a single game, fighting the young Tony Parker; the battle to shame Kidmond in 2010 was even a textbook-level "old-school basketball counterattack"; even the arrogant Splash Brothers and the Thunder Three Young Masters who came to meet Miller in the future have suffered a lot. Without three points, no knocks, no physical talent, he just has a way to do things on the heads of superstars in the form of "the essence of human common people".

You may think he is so durable, and he must be a mouse in the training hall? Quite the opposite. He hates gyms, eats burgers and hot dogs during the offseason, and doesn't know what calories are. His teammates told him what to do about carbohydrate control, muscle gain and fat loss, and he listened to Martian language. The only training method is to feel fat before the start of the season every year, and then starve for three or five days, relying on "fasting" to lose weight. Although his dietary style seems outrageous, his attendance is like a robot. He played 632 consecutive games and was suspended for a technical foul. He was helplessly interrupted. A training expert in the league said that his flexibility and body structure seemed to be born for exercise.

Of course, he also has obvious shortcomings, such as never really developing a stable three-pointer in his career, which also limits his playoff limit to a certain extent. The point guard without projection ability can never last long in today's league. But in that era, Miller lived in a unique style in the least gorgeous way. He is like a blunt weapon on the basketball court, not sharp enough, but calm, solid and fatal.

He has never reached the division finals in his career, nor has he been the protagonist of any season, but in his own way, he has achieved a kind of non-mainstream excitement. Not everyone can become James. Some people are like Miller, unknown but never absent; they have no traffic, but always online; they don’t steal the limelight, but they never make background boards.

24 Andre Miller, a man you may not remember but will never forget the way you play.