For Reggie Miller, it's already a miracle that he's been able to get into the NBA.

Born into 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 teenage talent who was selected for the national team at the age of 16.

Reggie Miller, on the other hand, is a skinny kid with a congenital hip disorder, and he even needed a brace to help him walk in his childhood, and when he got rid of the brace, he came to the basketball court, only to be abused by his sister.

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

Of course, people who met Reggie Miller for the first time didn't believe that this skinny and hemp boy could be a great player, and after entering high school, Miller's initial idea was to follow his brother and pursue baseball, but his thin frame prevented him from throwing fast enough, and eventually the baseball coach's coach rejected him.

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

His first accolades in high school came quickly, and he led his team all the way to the finals in the famous California Basketball Smash Bros., representing Southern California and qualifying for the championship game in Los Angeles.

That high school finals was one of the best memories of Miller's basketball career until he entered the NBA, perhaps second only to being drafted by the Indiana Pacers in the 1987 draft — oh no, the one question that came to Miller's mind the most, "Where the fuck am I going?" ”

In that final, Miller hit a lethal mid-range semi-final that ended his team with a goal that killed the title dream of the rival Palo Alto Vikings and Gan Guoyang's first title.

Miller didn't realize the seriousness of the problem at the time, he was just immersed in great joy, and he hoped that in the days to come, he would be able to relive this joy again and again, which is what all those who love basketball crave.

So, he didn't notice the Chinese player who was in the spotlight of many before the game, the No. 11, he was really talented, the Vikings were completely around him, and his maturity on both ends of the floor was beyond the level of a high school student, not to mention that he was still yellow-skinned.

But his teammates were really too average, and Miller's team had the upper hand in the overall competition, but the tenacious No. 11 still dragged the game into the final moments, and at this time, Miller's long-range shot that he practiced in his backyard to beat his sister finally worked, he ran out of the bottom corner, received the ball at 18 feet and made a jumper, and threw the ball before No. 11 pounced to cover himself, hit, and kill.

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

Of course, he was not stupid, and then Gan Guoyang was accepted into the UCLA of Miller's dreams, and became the successor of Abdul-Jabbar and Wharton, which made Miller go crazy with jealousy, and after he learned the news, he practiced his long shooting in the stadium like crazy, and he wanted to make himself join UCLA as well.

In fact, at that time, Miller still had some small hopes on the inside, looking forward to being able to work with this outstanding interior player at UCLA, play with him in the NCAA arena, and reproduce the glory of UCLA.

However, soon, Gan Guoyang fell out with UCLA, submitted a withdrawal application and finally joined Gunzaga University, and the news once again shocked Miller, like many people in college basketball, he couldn't believe that he had a center and gave up going to UCLA.

Miller's illusions of competing in the NCAA together were dashed, and this disillusionment seemed to be a reflection of his entire basketball career.

Still, as a fighter, Miller held on to his dreams, and once again joined UCLA unseen, where he finally understood why Gan couldn't stay because of the incompetent and stubborn Coach Larry Farmar.

His talent wasn't appreciated enough during Miller's freshman year, and when he finally visited Gunzaga University, he was given the space to play and prove that he can be the heart of this team.

But that game belonged to Gan Guoyang, to Gan Guoyang's revenge, to Gan Guoyang's anger, he destroyed UCLA in the most familiar way to UCLA, and then walked away, leaving only the devastation and regret for the past, which no longer belonged to him.

Since then, Miller has gradually become the backbone here, this thin, never favored defender, with his own persistence, toughness, and carrying UCLA forward.

Of course, for UCLA, the blow came quickly, and in the 1984 NCAA competition, Gan Guoyang led the Gonzaga Bulldogs all the way through the competition, and won the NCAA championship trophy with a brilliant record of winning all seasons, leaving a strong mark in the history of the NCAA.

In the next three years, Miller's UCLA did not even qualify for the national competition, let alone win the championship.

Finally, in 1987, in his final year at Miller University, senior Reggie Miller burst out of his greatest energy in college, leading UCLA to the national competition and passing the first round.

Miller, who averaged 22 points per game that season, was UCLA's leading scorer, and his helper was just a player who averaged 10 points per game, and he also led them to defeat Central Michigan University and lose to the University of Wyoming in the second round.

This result is already the best result of UCLA, which has fallen into a trough in recent years, but UCLA people are not satisfied, not only because of their glorious past, but also because the guy who came and left, after bringing an NCAA championship to the remote and untraced Gunzaga, has begun to pursue another championship for the Oregonians in the NBA.

And for them, the second round is already the greatest consolation, which is perhaps the greatest irony.

In any case, Miller has done his best, and it is not easy for a scoring guard who has been criticized for only catching and jumpers to hold UCLA for four years, and perhaps it is this tenacity and tenacity that has impressed the Indiana, the homeland of corn, who chose a skinny guard from California, and neither side knew what a long and great collaboration it would be.

At least in 1987, Miller was just a backup guard who averaged 10 points per game, he shot strangely, liked to run endlessly around the court, and his shooting was accurate, and he unexpectedly hit the most three-pointers on the team in his rookie season, 61, more than the team's leading scorer, Chuck Payson.

That year, Gan Guoyang had just returned from injury, and he became the strongest center in the NBA, destroying every team's interior line, and Miller was nothing compared to him.

In the two games with the Pacers, the grudge-holding Gan Guoyang still didn't seem to forget Miller, he transferred his "hatred" for Miller to the Pacers, the Indiana insider was penetrated, Gan Guoyang kept saying to the Pacers' head coach George Irving during the game, "Change that No. 31!" Replace him with him...... I want to talk to him! ”

Every time Gan Guoyang scored a goal, he had to chat with George Owen on the sidelines, and then Owen finally replaced Miller on the court, and the result was to eat Gan Guoyang's two big hats, and then he was locked by Drexler and didn't score a point in the whole game.

Like Gan, Miller is a vengeful man, and he never forgets the humiliation he inflicted on him on the court, which made him train hard in the offseason.

But off the court, the relationship between Miller and Gan Guoyang is not so bad, in the summer Gan Guoyang even invited Miller to train together, the two of them sprayed trash talk to each other in the gymnasium, and at the same time scored three points for each other, Miller's three points are naturally superior, but Gan Guoyang's three points are not far behind.

And with the help or stimulation of Gan Guoyang, Miller's ball skills have also grown rapidly, and after the start of the new season, Miller has grown into the No. 2 scorer on the Pacers' team, with a three-point shooting rate of an astonishing 40 percent, becoming a typical representative of the long-range shooting range of scoring guards in the new era.

However, the Pacers' record has not improved, and they have suffered an embarrassing nine-game losing streak since the start of the new season, and the team also opted for a change of coach, and they only won their first game of the season against the Bucks on November 22.

Until they waited at home for the Trail Blazers to attack, they only won two games in total, and no one was optimistic that they would be able to stop the rolling Portland Trail Blazers, not to mention that the Trail Blazers and Gan Guoyang, every time he met Miller, he had to abuse him to vent the hatred he had eight years ago.

"What do you think about the next game, Reggie, the Trail Blazers are coming, no one has been able to stop them so far, can the Pacers?" In an interview with reporters at the end of pre-game training, Miller was asked by reporters.

"Oh, it's not started yet, so we're 0-0, it's too early to say anything, but I'm going to say something. We're going to be able to end the Trail Blazers' winning streak at home, I swear, definitely. ”