Yardbarker: Mike Miller

Briefing: Down Goes Public Enemy No. 3

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 08:12:00 -0500

More photos » by Lynne Sladky - AP Browse more photos » Game Hub | Boxscore | Game Flow LeBron James has been the bane of the Wizards' existence in the playoffs for several years. The travels, the whining, the game-winners, the intense competition each time these two take the court; it's enough to stir some powerful emotion each time LeBron steps on the court. Although LeBron get...

Miller and Butler hurting, Young starting, Arenas talking

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:55:50 -0500

The Wizards will possibly be without two starters when they welcome back Eddie Jordan on Tuesday. The team is still waiting on the results of MRIs on Mike Miller's right calf and Caron Butler's right foot. Butler didn't practice on Monday and is questionable after playing with through the injury the past two weeks. Coach Flip Saunders said the pain became unbearable in the past week. "He decided go to an MRI to see where it's at. It swelled up a little bit yesterday so we...

It's Monday in Washington, let the spinning begin...

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:09:42 -0500

The Wizards are 3-9, people are not happy. Writers, fans, and coaches a like have to be scrambling to try and figure out whats going wrong in the Nations capital. Let's see what they are saying: Bullets Forever, Mike Prada : If Mike Miller is out for a month it's a really, really bad thing: "Right now, the Wizards' offense is struggling with a lack of ball movement. There's no flow to anything that's going on. Guys are shooting too many contested two-point jumpers...

DMV: Gilbert and Brendan Start Chirping

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:21:31 -0500

Haywood blames the Wizards’ 3-9 start on “ego.” Gilbert leads the team in shots while also having the team’s lowest shooting percentage. Arenas blames the 3-9 start on “hidden agendas” of free agents to be. Brendan is the team’s only prominent pending free agent. This is not good. [Wiz Insider] Mike Miller may be hurt, which [...]

Knott: Rusty Arenas is far from agent of change

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:45:00 -0500

Mike Miller is down to an arm and a leg. That means he probably will try to give it a go Tuesday night unless Flip Saunders ties him to a seat on the bench. Miller has been one of the two reliable ones on the Wizards - Brendan Haywood being the other. The sight of Miller being helped to the locker room in San Antonio is emblematic of a team wallowing in hurt, physical as well as mental. Everyone can point a finger to the cause of the team's 3-9 start, some of those fingers belonging to ...

If Mike Miller is out for a month, that's a really, really bad thing

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:45:05 -0500

More photos » by Bahram Mark Sobhani - AP Browse more photos » So apparently Mike Miller now has a calf injury in addition to the shoulder problem that clearly hasn't fully healed. Mike Jones tweeted last night that he will be evaluated tomorrow, but if his calf muscle "popped," as Flip Saunders said, he could miss up to 4-5 weeks. If so, that's really bad. Really, really bad. Right now, ...

Thunder beat Wizards in OKC: Final wrap and the inability to execute basic defensive concepts

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:24:18 -0500

More photos » by Alonzo Adams - AP Browse more photos » I've preached patience all year because, let's face it, there is an unbelievable amount of newness to this team. New coach, new superstar (essentially), two new players, new system, new injuries to overcome, a new tough schedule, etc. Without a transcendant player on the roster, and with a system that preaches ball movement and making the extra ...

Briefing: The Thunder Kept on Rolling and Rolling

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:10:58 -0500

More photos » by Alonzo Adams - AP Browse more photos » Game Hub | Boxscore | Game Flow I'm not all that good at picking momentum-changing moments, but I do know that when play like this happens, odds are that team is going to win. Sometimes, you just have games where it just doesn't come together and tonight was one of those nights. There are a lot of places blame can be a...

Wizards top the Cavaliers in DC: Final wrap and the two turning points

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:05:13 -0500

by Susan Walsh - AP View full size photo » So what's the operative word of the day, one day after the Wizards routed the Cavaliers? Excitement? Sure, anytime you beat Cleveland, you're excited. LeBron James bugs me more and more every time these two teams play. From all the whining to the officials, the self-promotion, the way he freezes out his teammates (ok, that's a good thing for us, but it's...

Briefing: This Probably Isn't Going The Way Flip Saunders Planned It

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:27:23 -0500

More photos » by Evan Vucci - AP I knew Earl Boykins and Will Bynum were short, I had no idea they only came up to Brendan Haywood's waist. Browse more photos » Game Hub | Boxscore | Game Flow Poor Flip. Do you still think he would've taken the job in Washington if he had known nine games in that he would 2-7 and that Earl Boykins and Mike Miller would be the team's l...

Injury Bug Bites Wizards Again: Mike Miller Out 7-10 Days With A Sprained Shoulder

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:34:11 -0500

Well, it’s not the end of the world, but it isn’t exactly what Wizards fans want to hear either … especially after a loss. Miller originally injured his left, non-shooting shoulder less than a minute into the third quarter and looked to be in a lot of pain. He sat on the bench for a couple [...]

Mike Miller's Choice Of Sneaker Won't Be Tolerated In Washington

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:30:00 -0500

During the off-season there were many trades made just for the sake of making a trade. One of which brought Mike Miller to the Washington Wizards. All reports point to the Wizards really loving the addition of Miller because of his unselfish play. Which makes perfect sense because there isn't much room for another player to come in and jack up shots. Arenas, Butler, and Jamison have that market cornered. But enough of what the Wizards have liked about Mike Miller. Let's talk about...

The significance of Mike Miller's strange 2008/09 season

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:26:12 -0500

More photos » by Tony Gutierrez - AP Browse more photos » Webster's dictionary defines an "outlier" as "a statistical observation that is markedly different in value from the others of the sample." In layman's terms, an outlier is a subject's data point or moment that is very different than the general trend. Webster's provides no example sentence to place the word in its prope...

The Washington Wizards and The White Man

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:08:23 -0500

When the DC Sports Bog’s Dan Steinberg was in Vegas, he tweeted the question: “Is mike miller the wizards’ best white player since….gugliotta?“ Dan later followed up in a Sports Bog post saying: I was asking some of the other media members who would be the answer to this question: “Mike Miller is the Wizards/Bullets best white player [...]

Is Mike Miller a long-term keeper?

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:22:19 -0500

More photos » by Chris Pizzello - AP Keep him? Browse more photos » I'm at work, so this post won't have the ordinary depth that most of the front-page posts have on here, but a nagging question has been bugging me all day. Did we acquire Mike Miller to trade him, or does he have a long-term future with this team? I'm pretty confident that Ernie Grunfeld traded for Randy Foye to keep him.&nbs...