NBA: 20 Past Players That Would Have Owned Twitter

By Bill Speros | May 16, 2016

Nov 11, 2014; Toronto, Ontario, CAN; The NBA Canada Twitter logo is displayed on a signboard and reflected in the floor before the Toronto Raptors game against the Orlando Magic at Air Canada Centre. The Raptors beat the Magic 104-100. Mandatory Credit: Tom Szczerbowski-USA TODAY Sports /

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Reggie Miller and John Starks during second half of the first-round playoffs. New York Knicks vs. Indiana Pacers, March 3, 1998. (Photo by Keith Torrie/NY Daily News via Getty Images) /

17. Reggie Miller

Today, Reggie Miller is active on social media, Tweeting at @ReggieMillerTNT. He has amassed more than 747,000 followers and hasn’t played in since 2005. He doesn’t hold back on his opinion when it comes to various issues surrounding the NBA.

As a player in the pre-Twitter age, his trash-talking abilities were legendary. When he hit one of his 2,560 career three-pointers, he usually let the closest opponent know all about it. When he hit a pull-up jumper, he was in your ear before the ball was inbounded.

And the “choke” sign was flashed with consistency whenever an opponent missed. He was deceptively vicious because his kid-like smile and calm personality off the court. His trash-talking antics were at the crux of the ESPN 30-for-30 film Winning Time that chronicled his back-and-forth with film director and Knicks fan extraordinaire Spike Lee.

If Miller was willing to throw down with a fan – albeit an A-List director – during the middle of a playoff series, imagine the Tweet fusillades that would have been deployed on his iPhone after a game? Miller backed up his trash talk with ruthless efficiency as a scorer and the aim of Hawkeye from behind the arc.

In that 1994 playoff series, he began his verbal assault on the opposition by wrecking the head of John Starks. Miller taunted Lee with choke signs and shoulder shrugs after nearly each basket. It returned the next year when the teams met again in the postseason.