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The Draymond Green Show

Andre Miller on the Evolution of NBA Point Guards, Coaching, & Top Young NBA Players

The Draymond Green Show

The New Media

Sports, Society & Culture, Basketball

4.22.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Longtime NBA point guard Andre Miller joins Draymond to discuss the evolution of the point guard, his opinions on load managment and his games-played streak, missing out on all star selections, a unique offseason approach, his time as the head coach of the NBA G League's Grand Rapids Gold, his favorite players in the NBA today, and much more. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Man, such an honor to have this next guest on.

0:03.2

It means so much to me.

0:04.7

When I look back on my journey, I'm a year 14 of my career.

0:08.5

And right at the beginning of the 14 years that I've been blessed to play in the NBA

0:14.5

will run up into this opponent with the Denver Nuggets.

0:20.6

And the reality is the way he played the game at that point in his career.

0:28.0

He'd take you to the post.

0:29.2

He's getting everything around the rim.

0:31.2

You know, he's, you know, we call it Nash and it, you know, where you dribble the ball underneath the rim

0:38.6

and keep your dribble, Jimmy Buller does a lot.

0:41.0

He was famous for that.

0:42.2

The moment you relax, he get a layup, he get an M1, just herky jerky, smart as hell.

0:49.9

And so he was my ticket to get on the court because game was so unorthodox that you wouldn't necessarily put guards on him.

0:59.4

But Coach Jackson thought I could guard guards.

1:01.7

And so he put me in the game to guard this next guess.

1:05.7

And he hit the first game winner I've had hit on me.

1:14.6

You know, he do stuff like go stand out of bounds underneath the rim.

1:20.6

You go help. He come in, get a quick layup, just witty, smart. And really showed me, like I've always been a high IQ basketball player,

1:26.6

but he showed me right at the beginning of my career of what it meant to been a high IQ basketball player, but he showed me right at the beginning

1:28.3

of my career of what it meant to be a high IQ basketball player in the NBA.

1:33.2

And I quickly learned that, oh, if I want to, like, hang my hat on my basketball IQ, there's so

1:40.5

much more that I need to learn.

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