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Toronto Raptors: 25 Best Players To Play For The Raptors

By Phil Watson

May 23, 2016; Toronto, Ontario, CAN; A general view of the Air Canada Centre with t-shirts laid out on seats in a Canadian flag pattern prior to Toronto Raptors hosting Cleveland Cavaliers in game four of the Eastern conference finals of the NBA Playoffs at Air Canada Centre. Mandatory Credit: Dan Hamilton-USA TODAY Sports
May 23, 2016; Toronto, Ontario, CAN; A general view of the Air Canada Centre with t-shirts laid out on seats in a Canadian flag pattern prior to Toronto Raptors hosting Cleveland Cavaliers in game four of the Eastern conference finals of the NBA Playoffs at Air Canada Centre. Mandatory Credit: Dan Hamilton-USA TODAY Sports /
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28 Feb 1997: Center Oliver Miller of the Toronto Raptors tries to fend off forward Lorenzen Wright of the Los Angeles Clippers at the Los Angeles Sports Arena in Los Angeles, California. The Clippers won the game 94-92. Mandatory Credit: Jed Jacobsohn /Allsport
28 Feb 1997: Center Oliver Miller of the Toronto Raptors tries to fend off forward Lorenzen Wright of the Los Angeles Clippers at the Los Angeles Sports Arena in Los Angeles, California. The Clippers won the game 94-92. Mandatory Credit: Jed Jacobsohn /Allsport /

C-PF. 1995-96, 1997-98. Oliver Miller. 25. player. 81. <strong>How acquired:</strong> Expansion draft pick from Detroit Pistons, June 24, 1995; Free agent, Feb. 13, 1997.

With their final pick in the expansion draft in June 1995, the Toronto Raptors took a shot on Detroit Pistons big man Oliver Miller.

He came in and was a starter at power forward for the first-year Raptors before the team renounced his rights in July 1996.

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Miller came back to Toronto as a free agent in February 1997 and re-signed with them in November of the same year.

After the lockout ended in 1999, Miller signed as a free agent with the Sacramento Kings.

In parts of three seasons in Toronto, Miller averaged 9.4 points, 6.5 rebounds, 2.8 assists, 1.4 blocks and 1.1 steals in 28.1 minutes per game, shooting .509/0-for-16/.652.

Taken 22nd overall out of Arkansas by the Phoenix Suns in the 1992 NBA Draft, Miller signed as a restricted free agent with the Pistons in September 1994.

After his rights were renounced, Miller signed with the Dallas Mavericks in October 1996 before he was waived in February 1997.

In August 1999, he was released by Sacramento and returned to the Suns as a free agent.

Unsigned after the 1999-2000 season, Miller played in Poland, the new American Basketball Association, the International Basketball League, the Continental Basketball Association and in Puerto Rico and China before returning to the NBA with the Minnesota Timberwolves in December 2003.

Again unsigned as a free agent, Miller played in the CBA, ABA and Premier Basketball League before retiring in 2010 at the age of 40.

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