Reggie Miller Wants To Meet His Olympic Hero Lilly King At Pacers Game

Indiana Hoosier Lilly King made a major name for herself both in and out of the pool at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio. In addition to nailing an individual gold medal in the women’s 100m breaststroke in Olympic record-setting fashion, she also struck gold as a critical member of the American women’s 4x100m medley relay squad.

Transcending her aquatic feats, however, were the out-of-pool antics King pointed at Russian competitor Yulia Efimova, stemming from the fact Efimova was granted permission to compete at the Olympic Games at the 11th hour. Efimova had been previously banned due to doping violations, the breastroking specialist’s 2nd run-in with a doping-related ban.

King especially gained fame around the world for her notorious finger-wage, the epitome of her belief that ‘drug cheats’ have no place in Olympic sport. Taking notice was another notable athlete from the state of Indiana, former professional basketball player Reggie Miller. The retired Indiana Pacer, who now provides basketball commentary for TV network TNT, called out to his Twitter and Instagram followers this week, saying he was on a quest to meet his Olympic Hero, Lilly King.

 

51-year-old Miller hopes that King can make it to the Pacers-Knicks game next Monday at Bankers Life Fieldhouse, which King has said she would indeed be attending. VigilantSports.com confirmed this afternoon that, despite being offered a pair of tickets by Miller, King will be purchasing her own in order to be compliant with NCAA compliance regulations. Such is the college athlete life.

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Ragnar
7 years ago

The NCAA rules are a joke, why keep the top athletes from profiting off their talent? You don’t stop band members/ music majors from playing at local bars for money. It would create more incentive to be the best at what you do, and how you spend your money/balance school work is on you. At the very least allow olympians in college a chance to accept sponsers, those rings give you that right.

Steve Nolan
Reply to  Ragnar
7 years ago

(Psst, because it’s racist.)

Taa
7 years ago

Maya Dirado is my Olympic hero but Ms. King isnt bad choice either

swimmmer
7 years ago

stupid NCAA rules. at least Schooling got is $750k!

NYC Unicorn
Reply to  swimmmer
7 years ago

The U.S. Kids got to keep their 25k per gold. That adds up when you think about all the golds the US won. Singapore only had to pay one athlete for one medal

NYC Unicorn
7 years ago

My boy Reggie been retired for over a decade and he still trying to score on the road

jroc
Reply to  NYC Unicorn
7 years ago
GOYULIA
7 years ago

Reggie Miller must be hard up for a hero 🙂

Swim Fan
Reply to  GOYULIA
7 years ago

Swim Swam, with an comment approval process in place – why still allowing trolls and snarky posts? I’m all for the free flow of ideas and opinions, popular or not, but some frequent posters just troll the site with nothing productive to add, just insults and throwing mud. The comment section should stimulate discussion and the exchange of ideas, not provide an anonymous forum to fling insults. I get that there’s a delicate balance here and no one wants censorship, but when the intent is just to insult and no content of value, why post? It degrades the value of the site. And people, if all you have to offer is to cast aspersions, then get a hobby, or a… Read more »

Sccoach
Reply to  Swim Fan
7 years ago

It’s just something you have deal with, I have never seen a public message board without troll posts. The only way to avoid it is a private message board, which swimswam wouldn’t do as a growing site.

Swim Fan
Reply to  Sccoach
7 years ago

Agreed, you can’t avoid them all the time. But scrolling through the articles today there are a handful of regulars that exist on this site to troll, not offering any sort of valuable content. I love a spirited and healthy debate, but these folks are here with little personal and petty grievances and agendas which I would hope Swim Swam could police a little better. I don’t think this is the place to grind your personal ax, which clearly a few repeat offenders do.

Swimmmer
Reply to  Swim Fan
7 years ago

If you’re offended easily, maybe don’t get on the internet.

Lane Four
Reply to  GOYULIA
7 years ago

Oh my God. You’re back? Ignore this person’s postings. He OR she is certifiably insane. Don’t believe me? Go back and read the posts during Rio. Go back and read the Kazan posts. Not worth getting bent out of shape about.

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Former Masters swimmer and coach Loretta (Retta) thrives on a non-stop but productive schedule. Nowadays, that includes having just earned her MBA while working full-time in IT while owning French 75 Boutique while also providing swimming insight for BBC.

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