Former University of North Carolina basketball star Larry Miller died Sunday, the university announced.<\/p>\n
Miller died in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, at the age of 79.<\/p>\n
The Catasauqua, Pennsylvania-native was a forward on Dean Smith\u2019s first two ACC championship and Final Four teams in 1967 and 1968, earning first-team All-American honors in both seasons.<\/p>\n
In 1968, Miller was a consensus first-team All-America on one of the greatest five-man squads ever honored, joining UCLA’s Lew Alcindor (later renamed to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar), Houston’s Elvin Hayes, LSU’s Pete Maravich and Louisville’s Wes Unseld.<\/p>\n
Miller is one of three players ever to win ACC Player-of-the-Year and Tournament MVP honors in consecutive seasons and is the only Tar Heel to win ACC Player of the Year twice.<\/p>\n
Miller scored double figures in 64 consecutive games, which is still the UNC record. Miller scored 1,982 points in three seasons and averaged 21.8 per game, the fifth-highest by a Tar Heel.<\/p>\n
In one of Miller\u2019s most memorable performances, he scored 32 points on 13 of 14 shooting from the floor in an 82-73 victory over Duke in the 1967 ACC championship game.<\/p>\n
Miller played seven years in the ABA and set the league’s all-time single-game record with 67 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Mark Bergin, WRAL senior multiplatform producer Former University of North Carolina basketball star Larry Miller died Sunday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7,217,8985,231,772,1544,334,337],"class_list":{"0":"post-28507","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-college-basketball","10":"tag-larry-miller","11":"tag-ncaa","12":"tag-ncaa-basketball","13":"tag-ncaab","14":"tag-unc-basketball","15":"tag-unc-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114497712748915882","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}