He wound up with the third-most three-pointers in NBA history, after Ray Allen and Reggie Miller.

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Kidd tied Reggie Miller for seventh place on the career list with 1, 389 games played.

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He passed Reggie Miller with 10:54 left in the first quarter and has connected on one in 69 straight games.

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The occasional Reggie Miller outburst notwithstanding, those series were usually about low scores and hard fouls, much like this one probably will be.

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The former UCLA star Reggie Miller, now an NCAA tournament broadcaster, said taking religious names in vain is interpreted by some viewers as worse than using traditional curses.

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Notes: The Pacers' only previous Game 1 win in New York had been exactly 18 years earlier, when Reggie Miller scored eight points in the closing seconds to stun the Knicks in a 107-105 victory.

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So the Pacers went into Tuesday night determined not let it happen again, certainly not with former stars Reggie Miller and Rik Smits in the house watching their old team hand it to their old rivals.

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Lee, who is making his own Broadway debut, spoke about visiting Tyson in prison in Indiana during the 1994 NBA playoffs, when Lee was under siege for trash-talking with Reggie Miller during a Knicks loss to the Pacers.

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But what makes this 6-foot-3 25-year-old worth pulling out from the pack at this still-early stage of the NBA playoffs and hoisting him up on the highest pedestal is something else something other great shooters like Reggie Miller and Ray Allen never achieved.

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