Sixers' Miller a quiet force

0 Comments | Philadelphia Inquirer, The, March, 2008 | by David Aldridge Inquirer Staff Writer

The first assumption they always make about the quiet ones is that they aren't paying attention. But Andre Miller is always paying attention. Just when you think he isn't aware, he slides you a look - not a smile or a frown so much as a gleam of recognition.  I got you,  it says, for good or ill.

Maybe he agrees with you. Or maybe he knows what you're up to. He was paying attention as his stepfather, Albert Robinson, convinced a skeptical Andre, day after day, that he was a good man who loved Miller's mother. He was listening when his college coach, Rick Majerus, yelled at him for two years at the University of Utah - and then, after the third, when Majerus told him he had NBA potential. He heard, many years later, when Denver Nuggets management kept telling him it was not...