Patrick Miller (basketball)

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Patrick Miller
Patrick Miller 2021.jpg
Miller with Juventus Utena in 2021
PBC Lokomotiv Kuban
Position Point guard
League VTB United League
Personal information
Born (1992-05-22) May 22, 1992 (age 31)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Listed height6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Listed weight200 lb (91 kg)
Career information
High school Hales Franciscan
(Chicago, Illinois)
College Tennessee State (2010–2014)
NBA draft 2014: undrafted
Playing career2014–present
Career history
2014–2015 Beşiktaş
2015 Yeşilgiresun
2015–2016 Texas Legends
2016–2017 Sioux Falls Skyforce
2017 Leones de Santo Domingo
2017–2018 Partizan
2018 Gaziantep
2018–2019 ratiopharm Ulm
2019–2020 Boulazac
2020–2021 Ironi Nes Ziona
2021–2022 Juventus Utena
2022–2023 Brose Bamberg
2023–2024 Cairns Taipans
2024–present Lokomotiv Kuban
Career highlights and awards

Patrick Dominick Miller (born May 22, 1992) is an American professional basketball player for the Cairns Taipans of the National Basketball League (NBL). He played college basketball for Tennessee State.

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High school career

Miller played basketball at Chicago's Hales Franciscan High School, averaging 22.6 points and 3.8 assists per game in 32 games as a senior, leading his team to a 28–4 record, winning the Regional and Sectional Championships. He was named Chicago All-Area two times and was voted 2009–10 Chicago Catholic League Player of the Year. [1]

College career

Miller joined the Tennessee State Tigers as a freshman in 2010–11. In 2012–13, he led the Ohio Valley Conference with 5.8 assists per game and was named to the All-OVC first team. [1] The following season, he scored 23.7 points per game to rank fifth in NCAA Division I. [2]

Professional career

On July 8, 2014, Miller signed with Beşiktaş of Turkey for the 2014–15 season. [3] In January 2015, he left Beşiktaş after appearing in just three Eurocup games and joined Yeşilgiresun of the Turkish Basketball Second League for the rest of the season. In 25 games for Yeşilgiresun, he averaged 13.8 points, 3.0 rebounds, 3.6 assists and 1.2 steals per game while helping the team win the championship. On June 29, 2015, he extended his contract with Yeşilgiresun for the 2015–16 season. [4] However, he later parted ways with the club on August 31. [5]

On October 31, 2015, Miller was selected by the Oklahoma City Blue in the second round of the 2015 NBA Development League Draft, [6] only to be traded to the Texas Legends on draft night. [7] In 52 games, he averaged 11.9 points, 4.1 assists, 3.3 rebounds and 1.3 steals in 27 minutes per game. [8]

On November 30, 2016, Miller was traded to the Sioux Falls Skyforce in exchange for the player rights to Byron Wesley and a 2017 third-round draft pick. [8] On December 3, he made his debut for the Skyforce in a 117–101 win over the Iowa Energy, recording 14 points, one rebound, four assists and one block in 19 minutes off the bench. [9]

On September 20, 2017, Miller signed a two-year deal with Serbian club Partizan. [10] On January 14, 2018, he left Partizan and signed with Turkish club Gaziantep for the rest of the 2017–18 season. [11]

For the 2018–19 season, Miller joined German team ratiopharm Ulm. [12]

On October 29, 2019, Miller signed with Boulazac Basket Dordogne of LNB Pro A. [13] He averaged 12.9 points, 2.6 rebounds and 5.1 assists per game.

On August 17, 2020, Miller signed with Ironi Nes Ziona of the Israeli Premier League. [14]

On August 23, 2021, Miller signed with the Juventus Utena of the Lithuanian Basketball League (LKL). [15] [16] He led the league in scoring with 17.9 points per game.

On November 7, 2022, Miller signed with Brose Bamberg of the Basketball Bundesliga (BBL). [17]

On June 16, 2023, Miller signed with the Cairns Taipans in Australia for the 2023–24 NBL season. [18]

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