For Reggie Miller, it is already a miracle that he can enter the NBA.

Born in a family of athletes, Reggie Miller has a great sister, Cheryl Miller, a basketball superwoman who once scored 105 points in the game, and a young genius who was selected into the national team at the age of 16.

Reggie Miller is a thin child with congenital buttock disease. He even needed a stent to help him walk in childhood. When he got rid of the stent, he came to the basketball court, but he was only able to be abused by his sister.

Finally one day, as a boy, he was able to defeat his sister on the court in his backyard. He also had his own higher goals. In California, full of talent, he wanted to stand out and become the best one.

Of course, no one who saw Reggie Miller for the first time believed that this thin boy who was as thin as a pole could become a great player. After entering high school, Miller's initial idea was to follow his brother and engage in baseball, but his thin body made him unable to make a quick enough shot, and the baseball coach eventually rejected him.

So, Reggie Miller chose basketball as his most important sport, and the dream he pursued throughout his life will be placed on this small ball.

His first high school honor came quickly. In the famous California basketball grading battle, he led the team to the finals, representing Southern California, and qualifying for the championship game in Los Angeles.

Until the NBA, that high school final was one of Miller's best memories of his basketball career, perhaps second only to being selected by the Indiana Pacers at the 1987 draft - oh, no, the question Miller thought the most about when he was selected by the Pacers was "Where the hell am I going?"

In that final, Miller made a fatal mid-range quasi-final shot. In the end, his team used this goal to kill the opponent Paro Alto Vikings' dream of winning and Gan Guoyang's first dream of winning.

At that time, Miller did not realize the seriousness of the problem. He was just immersed in great joy. He hoped that in the days to come, he could relive such joy again and again, which is what all those who love basketball desire.

So, he didn't notice the Chinese player who attracted a lot of attention before the game. No. 11, he was indeed very talented. The Vikings completely revolved around him. His maturity on both ends of the offense and defense exceeded the level of a high school student, let alone he was still a yellow skin.

But his teammates were indeed too ordinary. Miller's team had the upper hand in the overall competition, but the tenacious No. 11 dragged the game into the last moment. At this time, Miller's long shot that he had trained in his backyard to defeat his sister finally played a role. He ran out of the open position at the bottom corner, received the ball at 18 feet away, and threw it out before No. 11 came to block himself, hitting the ball, and winning the final shot.

After the game, through post-match reports, Miller learned that the No. 11 name was "Sunny-Gump" and the Chinese name was "Guo-yang, Gan". The "Gump" printed on the back of his clothes did not mean a fool.

Of course he was not a fool. Later, Gan Guoyang was admitted to the UCLA that Miller dreamed of and became the successor of Jabbar and Walton, which made Miller crazy jealously. After he learned the news, he practiced long shots in the stadium, and he wanted to allow himself to join UCLA.

In fact, Miller still had some small visions in the inside at that time, hoping to cooperate with this outstanding inside player in UCLA, compete with him in the NCAA field, and reproduce the glory of UCLA.

However, soon, Gan Guoyang and UCLA fell in love with each other, and the news that they applied to withdraw and finally joined Gonzaga University once again shocked Miller. Like many people in the university basketball industry, he could not believe that his eyes and ears actually had a center forward and gave up going to UCLA.

Miller's fantasy of working with Gan Guoyang to fight the NCAA was also shattered, and this shattering seemed to have become a portrayal of his entire basketball career.

However, as a fighter, Miller still insisted on his dream. He once again joined UCLA without being seen. There, he finally understood why Gan Guoyang couldn't stay because of the incompetent and stubborn coach Larry Famar.

During Miller's freshman year, his talent was not valued enough, and finally he got room to play when he visited Gonzaga University, proving that he could be the core of the team.

But that game belongs to Gan Guoyang, the revenge of Gan Guoyang, and the anger of Gan Guoyang. He destroyed UCLA in the most familiar way for the UCLA people, and then left, leaving only the scars and regrets of the past. This place no longer belongs to him.

From then on, Miller gradually became the backbone here. This thin defender who was never favored by others, carried forward with his persistence and toughness.

Of course, for UCLA, the blow came quickly. In the 1984 NCAA competition, Gan Guoyang led the Gonzaga Bulldogs to beat the team all the way, winning the NCAA championship trophy with a brilliant record of winning the season, leaving a strong mark in the history of the NCAA.

In the next three years, Miller's UCLA was not even qualified to enter the national competition, let alone win the championship.

Finally, in Miller's last year, in 1987, senior Reggie Miller burst out with his greatest energy in college, leading UCLA to the national competition and passing the first round.

That season, Miller averaged 22 points per game and was the scoring champion of UCLA. His helper was just a player who averaged 10 points per game. It was such a team. He also led them to defeat the University of Central Michigan and lost to the University of Wyoming in the second round.

Such a result has been the best UCLA score that has fallen into a trough in recent years, but UCLA people are not satisfied, not only because of their glorious past history, but also because the guy who came and left, who brought an NCAA champion to the remote and without any background, has begun to pursue another championship for the Oregonian in the NBA.

And they, the second round, was already the greatest comfort, and this may also be the greatest irony.

In any case, Miller has tried his best. It is difficult for a shooting guard who is criticized for only receiving jump shots to be able to take UCLA to this point for four years. Perhaps it is this tenacity that has touched the Indiana people. The hometown of corn has chosen a thin defender from California. Neither side knows how long and great cooperation it will be.

At least in 1987, both sides did not expect it. That year, Miller was just a substitute guard who averaged 10 points per game. His shooting posture was very strange. He liked to run endlessly on the court, and his shooting was also very accurate. In his rookie season, he unexpectedly shot the team's most three-pointers, 61, which was more than the team's top scorer Chuck Pesson.

That year, Gan Guoyang had just returned from injury and was at its peak. He became the most powerful center in the NBA and destroyed the inside of every team. Miller was simply not worth mentioning compared to him.

In the two games with the Pacers, Gan Guoyang, who was revenge, seemed to have not forgotten Miller. He transferred his "hate" against Miller to the Pacers. The Indiana man was broken through inside. Gan Guoyang kept saying to Pacers' head coach George Irving during the game, "Swap that No. 31! Swap him...I want to talk to him!"

Every time Gan Guoyang scores a goal, he will talk to George Irving on the sidelines. Then Irving finally replaced Miller on the court, but he ended up taking two big hats from Gan Guoyang, and then locked up by Drexler, without a single point in the game.

Like Gan Guoyang, Miller is also a person who will avenge his revenge. He has never forgotten the humiliation that Gan Guoyang used to treat him on the court, which has allowed him to train hard during the offseason.

But off the court, the relationship between Miller and Gan Guoyang was not so bad. Xia Tian Gan Guoyang even invited Miller to train together. The two of them were squirting trash talks with each other in the gymnasium while making three-pointers. Miller's three-pointers were naturally better, but Gan Guoyang's three-pointers were not much inferior.

And with the help or stimulation of Gan Guoyang, Miller's football skills have also grown rapidly. After the start of the new season, Miller has become the No. 2 scorer in the Pacers, with an astonishing 40% three-point shooting percentage, becoming a typical representative of the long-range shooting range of the shooting guard in the new era.

However, the Pacers' record has not improved much. After the start of the new season, they encountered an embarrassing nine consecutive losses. The team also chose to change coaches. They only won the first victory of the season against the Bucks on November 22.

Until they waited for the Trail Blazers to attack at home, they only won two games in total. No one was optimistic that they could stop the Portland Trail Blazers who had rolled over. Moreover, the Trail Blazers and Gan Guoyang also had to abuse every time they met Miller to vent their hatred eight years ago.

"What do you think about the next game? Reggie, the Trail Blazers are coming. No one can stop them so far. Can the Pacers?" Miller was asked by a reporter when he was interviewed by a reporter after the pre-match training.
Chapter completed!