From the NBA Finals to prison, Oliver Miller faces a new "wait" problem

This isn’t how Oliver Miller pictured life after basketball. The “Big O” is officially the “Big Inmate” after he was recently sentenced in Maryland to a year in jail for pistol-whipping his girlfriend's brother last April. Apologetic, Miller claims he was protecting his family, but those who grew familiar with watching the bigger than life 6-foot-9 center during his six seasons in the NBA are left wondering how it even got to this point. Miller wasn’t an all-star by any means, but in the early to mid ‘90’s his name carried weight around the league as much as the man himself. Back during the 1992 NBA Draft, the likes of Shaquille O'Neal, Alonzo Mourning, Christian Laettner owned the marquee as the next crop of talent in the league while the 280 pound Miller went 22nd overall to the Phoenix Suns after a fine college career at the University of Arkansas playing alongside Todd Day and Lee Mayberry. His rookie season in Phoenix, Oliver teamed with Charles Barkley in cloggin...