SEPTEMBER 22: The Nuggets have officially announced the hiring of Miller in a press release.
AUGUST 31: Former NBA point guard Andre Miller is finalizing a contract with the Nuggets to become the new head coach of their G League affiliate, the Grand Rapids Gold, sources tell Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN.
As Wojnarowski notes, Miller will replace another former NBA player, Jason Terry, as the Gold’s head coach. Terry is reportedly joining the Jazz as an assistant coach.
A 17-year NBA veteran, Miller played parts of seven seasons with the Nuggets. He ranks 12th on the list of all-time assists leaders, per Basketball-Reference, and last played in 2015/16 with the Spurs.
Miller, 46, led the league in assists (10.9 APG) back in ’01/02 with the Cavaliers. In 1304 regular season games (30.9 MPG), he averaged 12.5 PPG, 3.7 RPG, 6.5 APG and 1.2 SPG while shooting 46.1% from the floor and 80.7% from the line (his range didn’t extend to the three-point line, as he averaged less than one attempt per night and shot just 21.7% from deep).
This guy was 1 of my favorite players ever & will be a natural as a head coach
Yup, guessing the Kids won’t even remember him or bash him for his 21% career 3%
Not just the kids, most ppl here seem to only value 3pt shooters. The fact that his 3pt % was mentioned in the article at all says a lot tbh. Dre was a legend tho, real 1s known that since before he was even in the league
Whew brings me back to the old “floor general” Avery Johnson days ….Once CP3 leaves an era of basketball does as well sadly
Tyrese Haliburton, Tyus Jones, Kyle Lowry, Lonzo Ball, Ricky Rubio, Josh Giddey, Monte Morris, Jose Alvarado & more seem like they’re more than capable of carrying the torch for floor general types tbh
Very cool hire, always been a fan of his.
Before people fell In love with the 3 ball and think that everything now. There were great basketball players like him.
Yes and No to me, my above post wasn’t really a knock on the youth just a sign of the times changing
Just seems there’s too many 6’9 dudes that can create these days to put soo much usage in just 1 persons hands game to game
@Sank above, posted in wrong area
I dig that, way more ballhandlers nowadays
Brevin Knight is reading this somewhere and saying “damn right”
Will this guy communicate in sign language?
Why finalize now. I hear there is an opportunity in Boston opening up soon
This is a great hire. I really like Andre Miller. He was a really good teammate and professional that will make for a good head coach.
So many alcolades n yet never jumped
Very lucky to never be an all star. He will be an excellent coach. Knicks should look at him or Sam Cassel to replace Thibs when the time comes. Which will be soon. Todays players really respect a coach who has been there and done it on the court. The old days of the hard butt yelling coach is over