CINCINNATI \u2014 Hometown hero Miles McBride won back-to-back state championships at Moeller High School and is now two wins away from being an NBA champion.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u201cA lot of emotions, mostly when I watch him play. I\u2019m nervous like a dad. I want him to do so well,\u201d Head Coach Carl Kremer said.<\/p>\n
Longtime Moeller head basketball coach Carl Kremer has coached a lot of talent in his day. But he says no one is quite like McBride.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u201cYou knew there was something special with Miles. It\u2019s hard to describe the way he carried himself, the confidence he had, the humility with the confidence, was unusual to me to see in high school ball,\u201d Kremer explained.<\/p>\n
\u201cNobody impacted winning, and to me, winning is doing it right. Nobody did that better than Miles McBride,\u201d Kremer said.<\/p>\n
The Crusaders only lost one game he played in throughout his high school career. Winning state titles in his junior and senior seasons, the last of which Moeller went undefeated.<\/p>\n
Kremer says that through it all, McBride stayed humble, something that hasn\u2019t changed even since he turned pro.<\/p>\n
\u201cI remember all-star weekend two years ago, were playing over at La Salle, and you know NBA guys at all-star weekend there going to Jamaica, going to Vegas, I get that, and I look up and there is Miles walking in to our game Friday night on the only weekend he is free, comes in the locker room and talks to the kids,\u201d Kremer continued.<\/p>\n
Senior Riley McQueen says watching McBride\u2019s success is motivating him to follow in his footsteps.<\/p>\n
\u201cKnowing he came from this school and all the things he did, I worked out with him before, he is a good person, greeted everybody, doesn\u2019t have ego or anything, just a great person,\u201d Senior, Moeller High School Riley McQueen said.<\/p>\n
Maxwell Land played on both those championship teams with McBride. He says he\u2019s in awe watching his friend\u2019s dream become reality.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the coolest things I ever experienced, you know me and Miles go way back, to see one of my really good friends that I spent a lot of hours in here with, is truly cool,\u201d McBride\u2019s high school teammate Maxwell Land said.<\/p>\n
The Knicks are two wins away from a championship, and Kremer is hoping McBride can bring a title back to New York.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s really the intangibles that have allowed him to have this career and put him on the doorstep of maybe being an NBA champion. We\u2019re praying,\u201d Kremer concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CINCINNATI \u2014 Hometown hero Miles McBride won back-to-back state championships at Moeller High School and is now two…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":756914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1981,1970,1977,7,7596,6,67,16,9883,29717,9880,9882,9881,1974,92802],"class_list":["post-756913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-app-professional-sports","tag-app-sports","tag-app-top-stories","tag-basketball","tag-cincinnati","tag-nba","tag-news","tag-ohio","tag-ohio-cincinnati-top-stories","tag-ohio-cleveland-top-stories","tag-ohio-columbus-top-stories","tag-ohio-dayton-top-stories","tag-ohio-roh-top-stories","tag-top-stories","tag-travis-hicks"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116722155135466331","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756913","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=756913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/756914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}