Kevin Love and Ricky Rubio honored teammate Brad Miller in there own special way last night.
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Minnesota Timberwolves center Brad Miller plans to go from shooting baskets to shooting ducks after this season. He’ll be retiring at the end of this season to concentrate on his Sportsman Channel television show “Country Boys Outdoors.”
DX!
Bradley is caught in the middle of a crotch-chop.
(Source: twitter.com)
Wolves Fans, meet Brad Miller.
1/29/11 (via 1500 ESPN)
“The infamous microfracture procedure is always a major threat to a player’s leaping ability, speed and longevity. That was the case for Miller’s former teammate in Sacramento, forward Chris Webber, whose career was never the same after he had the surgery in 2003.
Yet as Miller joked, his situation is quite different. The veteran who went undrafted out of Purdue has long been known as one of the league’s least-athletic and slowest players, making the most of his basketball IQ, passing ability and offensive versatility.
‘I ain’t got much vertical to get back [and] it’s really not going to slow me down,’ he said. ‘[The doctors] said, “You’re the ideal candidate for this. A non-jumping, slow white guy. You shouldn’t really lose much.” No explosiveness is going to be lost here.’”
— Rockets center Brad Miller reveals he had microfracture surgery - Sam Amick - SI.com
Bradley is now, at least for the time being, a Timberwolf. And that sound you heard was indeed, you guessed it, me passing out. These season tickets just got more valuable than ever! Thanks, NBA gods! Now let’s just avoid a lockout, or a retirement, or another trade, or …
In happier times: Dwyane Wade, Carmelo Anthony, LeBron James, Brad Miller (!), and coach Mike D’Antoni about to order some food. I think Dwyane is really happy about those corn dogs.
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