Michael E. Miller (born August 14, 1964) is an American

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coach who is an assistant coach for the

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of the

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(NBA).

Early life

Miller was born on August 14, 1964, in

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, and graduated from Monmouth High School. He played

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at Burlington Junior College (now Southeastern Community College) in

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and East Texas State University (now

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). At East Texas State, he was a member of the team that won the

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championship in 1984. He graduated from East Texas State in 1987.

Coaching career

Early coaching career (1987–1994)

Miller began his coaching career as an assistant coach Cistercian Prep School in Irving, Texas in 1987. He was an assistant Football and Baseball coach, and the Head Coach of the JV Basketball team his first year. The next year, he was head coach of the Varsity Basketball team, and left the following year to join the college ranks as an assistant at

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, where he coached from 1989–90. The following season, Miller was an assistant coach at

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. From 1991 to 1994, Miller was an assistant coach at Southwest Texas State (now

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) under

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, where he helped Southwest Texas State achieve an NCAA tournament appearance and school record 25 wins in the 1993–94 season.

Southwest Texas State (1994–2000)

At age 29, Miller was promoted as head coach at Southwest Texas State in 1994 and was the second youngest NCAA Division I head coach that year. As head coach, Miller led Southwest Texas State to the

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regular season and conference tournament titles and an NCAA tournament appearance in 1996–97, for which he won Coach of the Year honors from the Southland. Southwest Texas State finished second in the Southland standings in 1997–98 and won another regular season title in 1998–99. Miller also coached center/power forward Jeff Foster, who would be a first round 1999 NBA draft selection and play his entire 13-season career with the

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. In six seasons as head coach at Southwest Texas State, Miller had an 87–79 record.

Later college coaching career (2000–2013)

In 2000, Miller reunited with Wooldridge, this time as associate head coach at

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, where he would remain for five seasons. Miller had his second head coaching job at

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from 2005 to 2012, during which he went 75–130. His only winning season there was in 2009–10 when Eastern Illinois went 19–12. Following a 12–17 season, Eastern Illinois decided on February 27, 2012 not to renew Miller's contract that was to expire April 30. In 2012–13, Miller was an assistant at

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, for his third assistant coaching job under Wooldridge.

Professional coaching career (2013–present)

In October 2013, Miller was named an assistant coach at the

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of the NBA D-League (now

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). On October 7, 2015, the D-League's

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hired him to be their head coach. While with the Knicks, Miller won the NBA G League Coach of the Year for the 2017–18 season. After four seasons in Westchester, during which he went 108–92, Miller was promoted to the

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as an assistant coach. Miller was named the Knicks interim head coach on December 6, 2019. He joined the

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as an assistant coach for the 2020–21 season, later joining the

in the same role the following season.

Head coaching record

College

NBA D-League/G League

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References

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