Post by Boyd on Apr 28, 2006 16:21:46 GMT -4
Memphis, Tennessee, April 28, 2006 – Memphis Grizzlies guard Mike Miller was today named the NBA’s 2005-06 Sixth Man of the Year, honoring the league’s top player in a reserve role for the season.
Coming off the bench in 65 of 74 games played this season, Miller averaged 13.7 points and 5.4 rebounds per game. He recorded double figures in scoring in 54 games, including 16 games of 20 points or more and two games of 30 or more (season-high 41 vs. Denver on March 17).
Miller joined Dallas’ Dirk Nowitzki as the only two players in the league to finish in the top 20 in three-point percentage while also averaging better than five rebounds and 2.5 assists. Miller was second on the team in rebounding and tied for third in assists (2.7 apg).
Now in his sixth NBA season, Miller scored a career-high and tied a then franchise record with 41 points on Mar. 17 vs. Denver, the third-highest single game scoring output in the league by a reserve in the last 10 years. He also recorded the first triple-double of his career and the first since the team’s move to Memphis prior to the 2001-02 season with 21 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists on Jan. 10 vs. Sacramento. With his performance, he became just the third player in the last 10 years to post a triple-double in a game that he did not start (Shawn Bradley, DAL; Magic Johnson, LAL).
Miller received 501 out of a possible 615 points, including 88 of a possible 123 first-place votes, from a panel of 123 sportswriters and broadcasters throughout the United States and Canada. Speedy Claxton of the New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets finished second with 205 points and Jerry Stackhouse of the Dallas Mavericks finished third with 162 points. Players were awarded five points for each first-place vote, three points for each second-place vote and one point for each third-place vote.
A former Rookie of the Year in 2000-01 as a member of the Orlando Magic, Miller becomes the first Grizzly in franchise history to be honored as Sixth Man of the Year. A first round selection by Orlando in the 2000 NBA Draft (fifth overall), Miller was traded by the Magic with Ryan Humphrey, a future first-round draft pick and a future second-round draft pick to the Memphis Grizzlies for Drew Gooden and Gordan Giricek on Feb. 19, 2003
Coming off the bench in 65 of 74 games played this season, Miller averaged 13.7 points and 5.4 rebounds per game. He recorded double figures in scoring in 54 games, including 16 games of 20 points or more and two games of 30 or more (season-high 41 vs. Denver on March 17).
Miller joined Dallas’ Dirk Nowitzki as the only two players in the league to finish in the top 20 in three-point percentage while also averaging better than five rebounds and 2.5 assists. Miller was second on the team in rebounding and tied for third in assists (2.7 apg).
Now in his sixth NBA season, Miller scored a career-high and tied a then franchise record with 41 points on Mar. 17 vs. Denver, the third-highest single game scoring output in the league by a reserve in the last 10 years. He also recorded the first triple-double of his career and the first since the team’s move to Memphis prior to the 2001-02 season with 21 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists on Jan. 10 vs. Sacramento. With his performance, he became just the third player in the last 10 years to post a triple-double in a game that he did not start (Shawn Bradley, DAL; Magic Johnson, LAL).
Miller received 501 out of a possible 615 points, including 88 of a possible 123 first-place votes, from a panel of 123 sportswriters and broadcasters throughout the United States and Canada. Speedy Claxton of the New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets finished second with 205 points and Jerry Stackhouse of the Dallas Mavericks finished third with 162 points. Players were awarded five points for each first-place vote, three points for each second-place vote and one point for each third-place vote.
A former Rookie of the Year in 2000-01 as a member of the Orlando Magic, Miller becomes the first Grizzly in franchise history to be honored as Sixth Man of the Year. A first round selection by Orlando in the 2000 NBA Draft (fifth overall), Miller was traded by the Magic with Ryan Humphrey, a future first-round draft pick and a future second-round draft pick to the Memphis Grizzlies for Drew Gooden and Gordan Giricek on Feb. 19, 2003