Miller's comeback shot snuffed by lengthy season <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Ultimately it was the calendar that killed Reggie Miller's thoughts of coming back to the NBA. It was Thursday, the day before his 42nd birthday, and Miller tried to project six to seven months in the future. How would it feel to wake up in a Memphis hotel room in March and prepare for the Boston Celtics' 61st game, with the playoffs still six weeks away? The grind got him. Not the physical toll, not the whole "tarnished legacy" thing, not slipping skills. "I can still shoot with the best of them," the NBA's all-time 3-point leader said. <font color=""Blue""> "Mentally, I don't know if I can do eight months," he said. "February, March, I would have been dead."</font></div> <div align="center"></div> ESPN
