Miller, Albert team up on TV

INDIANAPOLIS – Reggie Miller won’t be chasing the NBA championship that eluded him during his 18-year career.

He decided against a comeback bid at 42 years old with the Boston Celtics. Instead, the former Indiana Pacers star might announce some of their games.

He is teaming exclusively with Hall-of-Famer Marv Albert this season to form one of Turner Network Television’s top basketball announcing teams.

The Albert-Miller pairing makes sense because many of their signature moments the past two decades are connected.

“For so many years, he was the voice of my career and so many of my big games against the Knicks and the Bulls,” Miller told the Associated Press. “To be working side by side with him – I’m very humbled and very honored because a lot of people don’t get put in this position.”

Their debut will be Oct. 30, when Portland visits San Antonio.

Miller joined TNT after retiring from the NBA two seasons ago. He split time between studio and color work before being moved strictly to game analysis this season.

“He got it so quickly from a broadcasting point of view,” Albert said. “He just had it. I always feel you have it or you don’t.”

Miller felt he still had it as a basketball player and wanted to find out after he got a call from Danny Ainge, Boston’s executive director of basketball operations. Miller said he went through three weeks of two-a-days and gave it his best shot before returning to TNT.

“Once I got through that first week, I was fine, and my body probably could have held up for eight months,” he said. “I don’t think for eight months, mentally, I could have done it. The first two months, I would have been so excited, but December, January and February, those dog days of the NBA, I’d be like, ‘What the hell am I doing? I could have been chilling in Malibu.’ “