Certainly, I have no plans to continually harass the Boston Celtics organization, but I’m back with another post about the Celtics.

It’s not exactly breaking news anymore that Danny Ainge asked Reggie Miller to consider coming back to play for his team. Apparently Ainge wasn’t the first to propose this, as a couple teams have also contacted Miller (the Cavaliers, for one) since he retired from the Indiana Pacers after the 2004-05 season.

Miller, somewhat surprisingly, started working out twice a day to see if he could handle the grind of playing in the NBA at age 42. Nobody doubts that Reggie can still shoot, however, could he hold up for 10-15 minutes for 82+ games?

Over Miller’s last three seasons, he averaged 12.5 points per game. As Danny Ainge constructs his All-Star team, does he really need to sign a player who started declining in his play five years ago. Miller wasn’t a lockdown defensive player before, and if he plays against players half his age, things would become more difficult.
Reggie is one of the greats, but his days are (or should be) over. Fans and other NBA players already have the Celtics games marked on their calendar. If Miller returns, there will be players out to humiliate him just like young guns hoped to tarnish Michael Jordan’s legacy.

Besides, the Celtics already have two-guard Ray Allen, who shoots strikingly similar percentages compared with Miller. Ainge may be after a cheap veteran player, but certainly the Celtics would be better off with a defender instead of a shadow of the great Reggie Miller.

This post is not meant to say that Reggie isn’t one of the best SGs of his era, or to say that Reggie wouldn’t help the young (but rapidly aging) Celtics. Maybe Doc Rivers should become a player-coach, he’s only four years older than Reggie.

With all of the buzz about the Celtics this past month, the NBA should be glad the attention is no longer on Tim Donaghy and NBA fans should be excited that Reggie Miller may postpone his broadcasting career for another season.