Miller made an impression because, especially relative to the distorted world of the pro athlete, he was remarkably grounded. He drove a small, salt-stained GMC Envoy SUV -- the model year of which he couldn't remember -- that had a Tweety-Bird air freshener hanging from the rearview mirror. His preferred fashion was sweat pants and an old University of Utah team jacket, and his nickname, "Young Richard," was not exactly the stuff of marketing campaigns. It derived from Miller's uncanny resemblance to a certain bushy-haired '70s comedian, a likeness all his teammates, even Lithuanian-born center Zydrunas Ilgauskas, took great joy in pointing out. "I didn't know who this Richard Pryor was until I saw an HBO comedy," Ilgauskas told me at the time. "But It looks just like him!"
