\n\t\t\t\t\t\tFormer Cincinnati Bearcats forward Baba Miller is on his way to the NBA.Miller was selected by the Los Angeles Clippers with the No. 36 overall pick of the NBA Draft, in the second round on Wednesday night.A 6-11 forward, Miller played the final season of his college career with the Bearcats after playing two seasons at Florida State and one season at Florida Atlantic. Miller led the Bearcats with 13.0 points and 10.3 rebounds per game, both of which represented career-highs for the native of Spain.ESPN rated Miller as the No. 34 overall player in the draft class, praising his skills as a near-seven-foot post player with defensive versatility and ballhandling skills.Miller struggled to shoot from distance in college, at times, making only 29 percent of his three-point attempts, including 19.2 percent in 2025-26 with Cincinnati. He shot better from inside the arc, shooting over 52 percent from the field during his time with the Bearcats. In three seasons before playing at Cincinnati, Miller averaged 8.5 points and 5.5 rebounds per game, aided by a strong junior season at Florida Atlantic, when he scored 11.3 points per game.Miller became the 58th Bearcat selected in the NBA Draft and the first since Jacob Evans III was picked by the Golden State Warriors in 2018.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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Former Cincinnati Bearcats forward Baba Miller is on his way to the NBA.<\/p>\n
Miller was selected by the Los Angeles Clippers with the No. 36 overall pick of the NBA Draft, in the second round on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
A 6-11 forward, Miller played the final season of his college career with the Bearcats after playing two seasons at Florida State and one season at Florida Atlantic. <\/p>\n
Miller led the Bearcats with 13.0 points and 10.3 rebounds per game, both of which represented career-highs for the native of Spain.<\/p>\n
ESPN rated Miller as the No. 34 overall player in the draft class, praising his skills as a near-seven-foot post player with defensive versatility and ballhandling skills.<\/p>\n
Miller struggled to shoot from distance in college, at times, making only 29 percent of his three-point attempts, including 19.2 percent in 2025-26 with Cincinnati. He shot better from inside the arc, shooting over 52 percent from the field during his time with the Bearcats. <\/p>\n
In three seasons before playing at Cincinnati, Miller averaged 8.5 points and 5.5 rebounds per game, aided by a strong junior season at Florida Atlantic, when he scored 11.3 points per game.<\/p>\n
Miller became the 58th Bearcat selected in the NBA Draft and the first since Jacob Evans III was picked by the Golden State Warriors in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Cincinnati Bearcats forward Baba Miller is on his way to the NBA.Miller was selected by the Los…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":724234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[15056,27048,311478,10301,12700,5460,61522,355,13329,472,60488,13544,17589,49163,36449,99,2384],"class_list":["post-724233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-cincinnati","tag-college-career","tag-defensive-versatility","tag-final-season","tag-florida-atlantic","tag-game","tag-miller","tag-nba","tag-nba-draft","tag-no","tag-percent","tag-point","tag-rebound","tag-second-round","tag-skill","tag-sports","tag-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}