Brad Miller
| Full Name : | Bradley Alan Miller |
| Public : | Brad Miller |
| Nickname : | |
| Country : | United States (USA)  |
| DOB : | April 12, 1976 (Age 34) |
| Place : | Fort Wayne, Indiana |
| Height : | 7' 0" |
| Weight : | 236 lbs. |
| Sport : | Basketball - NBA |
| Team : | Chicago Bulls |
| Level : | Professional |
| Status : | Great |
| Chicago Bulls |
| Center |
| Jersey # 52 |
NBA Teams :
Chicago Bulls (2009 - present)
Sacramento Kings (2003 - 2009)
Indiana Pacers (2002 - 2003)
Chicago Bulls (2000 - 2002)
Charlotte Hornets (1998 - 2000)
Italian League :
Bini Viaggi Livorno (1998)
College : Purdue University
Drafted : Undrafted in 1998
| World Championships |
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| Bronze | 2006 Japan | Men's Basketball |
| Bronze | 1998 Greece | Men's Basketball |
Achievements :
2x NBA All-Star (2003, 2004)
Bradley Alan Miller (born April 12, 1976 in Fort Wayne, Indiana) is an American professional basketball player, currently a center for the Chicago Bulls. He is also a member of the USA national basketball team. Miller was selected two times for the NBA All-Star Game.
East Noble, Maine Central Institute 1990 - 1994
Brad Miller attended East Noble High School, located in Kendallville, Indiana. He later attended the Maine Central Institute, a private High School in Maine, where notable NBA players, such as Sam Cassell and Caron Butler, also attended before entering the college game.
Purdue
Brad Miller returned to his home state to attend Purdue University, located in West Lafayette, Indiana, where he played under head coach Gene Keady and assistant coaches Bruce Weber and Frank Kendrick. During his Freshmen season, along with Senior Cuonzo Martin, he led the Boilermakers to a 25-7 record. Along the way, he was part of a Big Ten Conference Title and an NCAA Second Round appearance. He averaged 6.5 points and 5.4 rebounds a game.
During his Sophomore season, he helped lead Purdue, along with fellow Sophomore Chad Austin, to a three-peat conference title and a consecutive NCAA Second Round appearance. The Boilers finished the season with a 26-6 overall record. Miller averaged 9.6 points and 5.5 rebounds on the season.
His Junior season showed more progress than the prior season, averaging 8.3 rebounds and 14.3 points a game. Finishing second in the conference, Miller, along with teammate and current NBA player Brian Cardinal, helped the Boilers to a third straight NCAA Second Round finish. They beat Rhode Island in overtime, where Brad scored 31 points, grabbed eight rebounds and set a school tournament record with made/attempted free throws, going 15-21 from the line. He finished his Junior season with an 18-12 record. Throughout his Junior year, he became the only center in Purdue history to lead the team in assists.Brad Miller had his best college season during his Senior year, helping with a 28-8 record. Averaging 17.2 points and 8.8 rebounds in his last season at Purdue, He led the Boilermakers to a Sweet Sixteen appearance and a 2nd seed overall in the NCAA Tournament.
Miller set a school tournament record with 6 steals in a win against Delaware. His last collegiate game was a loss to Stanford. Near the end of the game, Brad busted his chin multiple times and kept going out on the floor.
Miller's biggest game of his Senior season came against Michigan State, where he scored 30 points and pulled down 12 rebounds to force Michigan State to share their Big Ten crown. During his career at Purdue, he became one of only four players to record 800 rebounds and the only player in school history to have 1,500 points, 800 rebounds and 250 assists.
Charlotte Hornets
After college, because of the NBA lockout, Miller started his career at the club level in Italy playing for Bini Viaggi Livorno for three months before he was signed by the Charlotte Hornets as an undrafted free agent. He played for the Hornets for two seasons. On March 24, 1999, he had his season high 25 points, going 9-9 shooting and 7-7 from the line.
Chicago Bulls
After two seasons with the Hornets, he signed with the Chicago Bulls as a free agent. In January 2002, he was involved in an on-court altercation with center Shaquille O'Neal of the Los Angeles Lakers. Fouling O'Neal on a put-back, Miller walked away as O'Neal swung at the back of his head. Nearly doubling his playing time with the Bulls, he averaged 12.7 points a game, shooting .46 percent during the 2001-02 season.
Indiana Pacers
In February 2002, he was traded by the Bulls with Ron Mercer, Ron Artest and Kevin Ollie to the Indiana Pacers for Jalen Rose, Travis Best, Norman Richardson, and a second-round draft pick. He wrapped the 2001-02 season with a 15.1 points and 8.2 rebounds per game average. During his first and only complete season with the Pacers, he made his first NBA All-Star Team during the 2002-2003 season, becoming one of the first undrafted players to be named an All-Star along with the Detroit Piston's Ben Wallace in the same year.
Sacramento Kings
During the 2003 offseason, he was involved in a sign-and-trade with the Sacramento Kings. He was signed to a multi-year deal by Indiana and then traded to the Kings in exchange for Scot Pollard. In the same trade, the Kings sent Hidayet Turkoglu to San Antonio Spurs, San Antonio traded Danny Ferry to Indiana and Indiana traded Ron Mercer to San Antonio.
While signing with the Kings, Miller stated, "I wanted to stay with Indiana but my agent said that the money I could make with Sacramento was just too good to pass up and I would never get this kind of contract again." Averaging 14.1 points and 10.3 rebounds in his first season with the Kings, he was voted to back-to-back NBA All-Star Game appearances.
Brad finished his five-season career with the Kings, averaging just over 13 points, 8 rebounds and 4 assists a game.
Chicago Bulls
On February 18, 2009, the Kings reached a tentative agreement to trade Miller and John Salmons to the Chicago Bulls for Drew Gooden, Andres Nocioni, and Cedric Simmons. As a veteran presence on a young team, Brad competed in the 2009 NBA Playoffs after a two-year absense of post-season play while with the Kings.
Despite his size, Miller is not in the mold of a traditional center. He has only averaged double-digit rebounds once in his career and has never averaged more than 1.2 blocks per season. Preferring shooting midrange jump shots, he is a very efficient scorer and one of the top-shooting big men in the league. For his career, he has averaged 49.7% from the field and 79.4% from the free throw line. The main thing that sets him apart from other centers is his passing. In 2005-2006, he averaged 4.7 assists per game, good for 29th in the league but far above what other centers averaged (Ben Wallace was second among centers with 1.9 APG). The Princeton offense run by the Kings both allows and demands Miller to be a good passer and he is typically recognized as one of the best-passing big men in the league. Miller has also recently added a three-point shot to his game. In 2005-2006, he attempted an average of 1.1 three pointers per game and made 38.6% of them. One of the main negatives about Miller is his durability, as he has never completed a full season. On July 10, 2008, Miller was suspended by the NBA for 5 games at the beginning of the 2008-2009 season for violations of the league's substance abuse policy.
