I'm like, "Kenny, are you crazy? After a nearly 15-year coaching hiatus, Miller returned to the sidelines in 2014. [Laughs.]. Brand: I was just trying to hype [Steve] up, like, "Let's go." Similarly, the American received the Honda-Broderick Cup winner for all sports. When I took off and turned around, the rim was right here [at eye level]. Francis: I was quiet. ? Cheryl grew up in an athletic family, the middle child of five. Haggith, the Raptors' top PR man, was assigned to stay on his players' hips the entire All-Star Weekend. The issue was if Tracy was gonna be in it. Cheryl Miller was given the tag of the first person to be named an All-American by Parade Magazine four times and set the California State records for total points scored in a single season. Reggie Miller is famously competitive. Cheryl Miller serves as a sideline reporter for the NBA on TNTs Thursday night doubleheader coverage for TNT Sports. In her 90 matches at Riverside Polytechnic High School, Cheryl Miller scored 3,026 points, an average of 32.8 per game, grabbed 1,353 reboundsand had 368 assists. The slam dunk competition is back.". Coming to her height, She has an astounding height of 6 feet 2 inches. Cheryl Miller is covering the NBA Season for TNT (Source: TNT). Cheryl was a broadcaster at the 96 Atlanta Games, where Reggie won the gold. Copyright 2021, All Right Reserved MARRIEDCELEB. Few moments from that weekend could match the luxury in which they reached the Bay Area. Miller, who stands 6-2 and is the sister of longtime Indiana Pacers guard Reggie Miller, won two NCAA titles at USC and a gold medal for the United States. In the National Basketball Association, Miller played his entire career with theIndiana Pacers. Additionally, the inspirational woman has beautiful brown eyes and curly black hair. In the first round of the finals, Francis earned a 43 for a leaning windmill jam while McGrady was given a 45 for a two-hand alley-oop windmill of his own. Cheryl surely accumulated a fortune from her successful basketball, coaching, and sportscasting career. Francis: Even coming into the [2000] dunk contest they said [Vince] was going to win. The firstborn daughter ofSaul and Carrie Miller, Cheryl D. Miller set the example in athletics for her younger brothers from a young age. He launched into a 360-degree turn, only he was spinning the wrong way, rotating the unnatural direction for a right-handed dunker. Antawn Jamison (forward, Golden State Warriors): Me and Vince was best buds, so I was definitely pulling for him. You can ask the coach, the GM, anybody. The net worth of Cheryl Miller is estimated to be over $5 million. Born: January 3, 1964. Haggith: For both Vince and Tracy, but Vince especially, it was like traveling with the Beatles. To visualize the dunk, he first paced it out on the court. "I was just someone who loved the game so very much and had a passion for sport and life." She got in the Hall of Fame in 95. We knew he was athletic. Cheryl Miller collaborating with ABC reporter (Source: ABC Sports). Paul Jones (analyst, TSN): Because the older guys had pride. Woooooaaaahhhhhhhhh!". It was like, "Yeah, yeah -- oh by the way, you gonna be in the contest? I told them, "They're my rims. Trying to get [to the arena] and everything else -- it was damp and wet and muddy, and traffic was crazy coming from San Francisco. Dirk Nowitzki (forward, Dallas Mavericks): It was my first dunk contest, so I wanted to soak up as much as I could. We're so accustomed at those events to see the players -- it's kind of a jocular-type atmosphere at those Saturday night festivities. Iverson: I was a part of it, and that's the greatest part of it. The same year she also achieved the Wade Trophy winner and became the WBCA Player of the Year. And then I rubbed my arm 'cause I'm like, "OK, this is gonna hurt.". In the semifinal game against Canada, the Miller team was declared victorious after achieving 8259. Vince Carter (forward, Toronto Raptors): He wanted no part of it. It's one of those -- almost like the Jack Buck call: "I don't believe what I just saw.". Carter took to the court for his first dunk that night with no true plan. The slam he had prepared to open with he instead decided to use second in his routine. "I suspect it would have been brought back during the lockout year if we hadn't had the lockout," Granik says. A lot of haters. Vince Carter: Probably a lot of guys [did]. I was young then; I could dunk. I was like, "Really? He was like, "Cheryl, trust me. In Stanfords first-round rout of Montana State, Belibi had a sequence that will go down in history. My son one time said to me, "Dad, do you have any old film of you playing in the NBA?" She still has not found a perfect partner for her yet. Posey: Everybody was like, "All right, that's just a basic dunk." That was my goal, and he spoiled it for me. Nowitzki: On a good day I could have probably put my wrist in. It is well known that Cheryl Miller is better at basketball than Reggie. His thoughts turn to the half-dozen or so slams he has planned for the competition, a stacked affair that will feature four All-Stars, either present or future, including Carter's cousin and teammate. Height: 6-2/1,87m. And he was in high school. For the people who weathered that -- they and I, we felt very rewarded. Jerome Williams (forward, Detroit Pistons): I grew up in the same area as Steve Francis, so I knew him very well and I had played with him for summers leading up to him being drafted. Cheryl(middle) after winning the NCAA National Championship (Source: NBA). Additionally, she also worked as a sportscaster. Their jaws were on the floor. It wasn't, "I spent 30 minutes a day trying." [1]. For some travelers, Alaska is wilderness, at least compared to what they may know from back home. Don't miss a story! For his debut, he thought back to a dunk he had done only two or three times before in his life. I just remember sitting courtside there with Shaq, KG. ", Thorn: There were conversations [within the league] from time to time, talking about, you know, "Maybe we could do it a little differently," and, "Now we've got some pretty good dunkers out there who might be willing to do it," and, "Maybe we ought to bring it back. . Cheryl Miller While attending Riverside High School in 1982, Miller is believed to be the first woman to dunk in a high school game a game in which she scored 105 points. People tend to forget -- I mean, Vince was unbelievable -- but Steve Francis and Tracy McGrady did incredible dunks. As a high school senior, she pulled off the first alley-oop dunk by a female in a game in the United States at any level, including the WNBA. This is you. A 6'3, 150-pound guard and forward, Cheryl Miller excelled in nearly every facet of basketball. He'd come over and be like, "I got something they ain't seen before." During her four years and 128 games at Southern Cal, she scored 3,018 points, grabbed 1,534 rebounds, and had 462 steals in 128 games. Yet before Carter could become "Vinsanity," before he could deliver one of the most talked-about, most celebrated All-Star moments ever, there was no dunk contest at all. Theres speculation that she is interested in girls and thus is a lesbian. So the players are loose and they all react and overreact to it, but that was genuine reaction. Ask the casual male basketball fan about Lisa Leslie and they will probably say she was the first lady to dunk in a WNBA game. And from what we know, the people of this sign are known to be ambitious, organized, practical, and goal-oriented simultaneously. And you're definitely going to have Vince's arm in the rim. It took a lot of convincing. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators . There was a part of us that it was all sort of like we were in front of televisions as kids watching Julius Erving take off from the free throw line again. It had gone from Dr. J to Michael to Spud Webb to Dee Brown's flying dunk, and at this point it was just played out. Not that night. Thomas: It's that moment of silence when everyone is in awe that takes your breath away. Still, that injury did not prevent her from receiving one of. Cheryl was the coach of two NCAA championship teams at USC. He is an actor, with roles in the movies, "Goodbye to Language," "Culture Clash," and "Munchie Strikes Back." Eric is also a conceptual artist, and historian. Reggie Theus (sideline reporter, TNT): When he got up, he was already way in the air, but as he threw the ball between his legs, it was almost like doing the wave. Height: 187cm (6'1") Position: Forward. Besides Cheryl's brother, Reggie Miller is an American former professional basketball player who played his entire basketball career for the Indiana Pacers and is also considered one of The Pacers' greatest players. It would take a generational moment, his performance in Oakland, to reach his grandest level of fame. He's my idol, the guy who I looked up to. Cheryl D. Miller is an American former basketball player and former TNT Sports sideline reporter, currently the womens basketball coach at Cal State LA after working as a sportscaster for ABC Sports, TBS Sports, and ESPN. in one game. Cheryl Miller (sideline reporter, TNT): Everybody was a little bit nervous but optimistic that this would be the slam dunk [contest] that would bring back the prestige. I was looking to gain about 10 pounds on the trip. A 6'3", 150-pound guard and forward, Cheryl Miller excelled in nearly every facet of basketball. Something we'd never seen before, never been done before, as your first one? Jason Kidd (guard, Phoenix Suns): It's something you dream about when you're a little kid, but then to see someone actually do it was amazing. With no real dunk planned, he scanned the court, drew inspiration and improvised. * All titles reflect those that were held on Feb. 12, 2000. Some of the most cynical, jaded sports writers who had covered 10 of these are sitting there looking at each other and falling over each other. Everyone that was involved kind of knew that something spectacular was going to happen with Vince. He had barely completed the slam when he practiced it. Isiah Thomas (judge, 2000 NBA Slam Dunk Contest): I don't know what made me jump up like that. Butch Carter: I don't think you've ever seen a dunk contest where a guy did a dunk and it stunned everybody to figure out mentally what he had just done. This is over now.". Dee Brown (guard, Toronto Raptors): That was just going to embarrass the older guys. Cheryl Miller Born: Jan. 3, 1964, Riverside, Calif. (age 50) WNBA team: None. She could also dunk!! Vince Carter: Right before it was my turn, I remember sitting and thinking, "What am I gonna do?" Origin: Riverside, California, USA. Best thing ever. While McGrady missed his final dunk, in essence eliminating him from the contest, Francis earned a 48 for his favorite dunk of the night: an alley-oop reverse leapfrog where he coiled his body high in the air and seemed to bring his knees to the bottom of the net for the stuff. Part of the dunk contest's rules in 2000 stated that at least one of each participant's first-round slams had to come with the aid of a teammate. So they wanted to see these youngsters really go out and prove that the NBA had not just completely died because Michael Jordan was gone. Miller: I asked [Stackhouse] who he's got in this, and he said, "I'm going with Vince. Cheryl D. Miller (born January 3, 1964) [1] is an American former basketball player. Cheryl was a legend when I was in middle school. She went on to anchor the U.S. Olympic team that captured the 1984 . Should we bring it back or not?". Listen or read the top speeches from African Americans. Haggith: Shaquille O'Neal and Kevin Garnett, their eyes were just miles wide. For a remarkable nine years, nine months and nine days, Edwin Moses remained invincible in the 400 meter hurdles, being unbeaten in 122 consecutive races. Reggie is also a basketball player in the NBA. Cheryl Miller is more than the greatest USC basketball player of all time. She taught him everything he knows about basketball by habitually beating young Reggie over and over again when they were children. As he walked back toward center court, Carter waved his arms and, to the camera, mouthed his most famous words of the night: "It's over. Cheryls team won against all eight teams with an average of 50 points each game. She took over the head coaching position five years later. Cheryl Miller: African American basketball legend Click on the links below for detailed information and photos on African American athletes who rose to the top of their field Boxers Boxing great Henry Armstrong hammered away at discrimination in the 1930s and 1940s by refusing to fight in segregated arenas. Jed Jacobsohn (photographer, Getty Images): It was a pretty dynamic moment photographically. "My dream was to hold that dunk contest trophy.". Jason Buckland is a writer based in Toronto. 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