Aaron Miles (basketball)

Infobox Euroleague Player
name = Aaron Miles
nickname =


caption =
height_ft = 6
height_in = 1.25
weight_lbs = 175
position = Point guard
league = Greek League
Euroleague
team = Panionios Athens
nationality = American
birth_date = birth date and age|1983|4|13
birth_place = Portland, Oregon
highschool = Jefferson (Portland)
college = Kansas
draft = Undrafted
draft_year = 2005
career_start = 2005
career_end =
former_teams = Golden State Warriors (2005-2006)
Fort Worth Flyers (2005-2006)
Élan Béarnais Pau-Orthez (2006-2007)
Cajasol Sevilla (2007-08)
awards =

Aaron Marquez Miles (born April 13 1983 in Portland, Oregon) is an American professional basketball player. He is a point guard. He is 1.86 m (6 ft 1 ¼ in) in height. He has played previously in the NBA. He is currently playing with the Greek Euroleague club Panionios Athens.

College career

After being named the High School basketball player of the year in the state of Oregon, Miles attended the University of Kansas, where he starred at the point guard position for the Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team. He helped lead the Jayhawks to two consecutive Final Four appearances in 2002 and 2003 and an appearance in the 2003 national championship game. He is the all-time assists leader (with 954 career assists) of both Kansas and the Big 12 Conference. He was named to the All-Big 12 Team in both 2004 and 2005.

He was also named to the All-Big 12 Defensive Team 3 times and he finished his college career in 8th place in NCAA history in assists and also in 2nd place all time in Kansas history in steals.

Professional career

NBA

Miles signed as an undrafted rookie free agent with the NBA's Golden State Warriors for the 2005-06 season, being released in January, 2006, before his contract became guaranteed. He played for the Fort Worth Flyers in the NBA Development League for the remainder of that season. There, he teamed with his Kansas class of 2005 teammate, Keith Langford.

In 2005, Miles played with the New York Knicks Summer League team and in 2006 he played with the Chicago Bulls Summer League team. In 2007, he played with the Summer League team of the Washington Wizards and he also played with the Summer League team of the Seattle SuperSonics in 2008, but he did not receive a contract from any of those teams.

Europe

He signed for the 2006-2007 season with the French League club Élan Béarnais Pau-Orthez, a team that played in the Euroleague that season and with PAU he won the French National Cup championship that year. He played with the Spanish League club Cajasol Sevilla in the 2007-08 season. In the 2008 off season, Miles joined one of the three Euroleague teams from the Greek League for the 2008-09 season, Panionios BC. [ [http://www.euroleague.net/news/i/34631/180 Panionios lands assists ace Miles.] ]

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External links

* [http://www.nba.com/playerfile/aaron_miles/index.html?nav=page NBA.com profile]
* [http://www.nba.com/draft2005/profiles/AaronMiles.html NBA.com NBA Draft Bio]
* [http://www.eurobasket.com/player.asp?Cntry=ESP&PlayerID=45656 Eurobasket.com player profile]
* [http://www.draftexpress.com/profile/Aaron-Miles-73/ Draftexpress.com player profile]
* [http://nodo4.euroleague.net/competition/players/showplayer?pcode=LIZ&seasoncode=e2006 Euroleague.net player profile]
* [http://media.lawrence.com/img/photos/2005/05/23/kugrad6_t640.jpgGraduation photo (3rd from left)]