What's up everybody and welcome to another boardroom out of office.

And once again, we're recording it in the office.

And today I have with me not only a very old friend, but a very, very, very successful

entrepreneur and a 17 year vet in the NBA.

Let me try to get this all off the top of the head.

Two-time champ, rookie of the year, six man of the year, shot a big time three with one shoe on, right? Yeah, yeah. Mr. Mike Miller. Fools him for a long time. Fooled him for a long time. Welcome to the show, bro. Appreciate it. Thank you for having me. Also, what I should have said was the heart and soul of Mitchell, South Dakota.

And I'm going to ask you something. I'm going to quiz you. What's the population in Mitchell? 13,000. 16,000. Dang, we're growing, huh? It's grown since you left. Wow, wild. Been a lot of little Mike Miller since you got. That's right. That's right. That's good.

Was it ball from day one as a kid?

Yes. I mean, where I grew up, my dad played my That's right. That's right. That's good. Was it ball from day one as a kid?

Yes. I mean, where I grew up, my dad played, my uncles played, my two older brothers played.

Like you walk outside in the wintertime, it's minus 30 windshield.

The only place you had, your comfort was in the gym.

And my entire family hooped. So it's like, that was the next thing. And we had a legendary high school coach who won tons of state championships, boys and girls. So like, that was it. You know, I mean, 16,000 people was 13 when I was there. I just know. But that's all you had, right? Like you had a hoop and when your family does it, you want to be a part of that and it just was, that was my life, really. So when you hear me read back 17 years in the league, two-time champions, six men of the years, it's still weird for you? It's wild. You know, because, you know, you know, you grew up, you watch, you know, for me, I caught the tail end to Larry and then MJ and like you're watching on Saturdays, right? Like, that's the games you're watching. NBC. Yeah. And so, you know,

you know, that's the games you're

watching yeah and so you know you know that's what you always wanted to do obviously but that's not

that's not the path for a lot of people coming from South Dakota at the time you know it was pretty

way pre social media and building brands and like it was hard to get teams to recruit you you

had to do something different for them to fly over all these states and do what they did you know you had a really set up tone and

so there was no shoe circuits there was just certain tournaments you had to go out there and do

your thing and you know I never thought I'd be there so to say those accolades and even

play 17 years or to make it was was wild so I've been blessed for sure. So I always noticed that like it's 50-50. When you ask an NBA player who their favorite players were growing up, a lot of times you'll get like, I ain't really watch ball like that. I was out all day. A lot of times New York City like streetball legends will tell you. I ain't watched the NBA like that. Then K.D. will hit you with like Vince Carter, Tracy McGready was on my wall.

It was a new player every month.

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