Miles was born in Belleville, Illinois, and attended East St. Louis Lincoln High School and East St. Louis Senior High School in East St. Louis, Illinois. Miles signed a National Letter of Intent to play for the St. John’s Red Storm men’s basketball team before declaring for the 2000 NBA Draft, alongside fellow top recruit Omar Cook. Mike Jarvis, the Red Storm’s head coach at the time, stated that Miles’ commitment was instrumental in securing Cook and the other incoming freshmen from the recruiting class.
Following the 2001-2002 season, Miles was traded to the Cleveland Cavaliers in a deal for Andre Miller and Bryant Stith, where he spent a season and a half before being traded to the Portland Trail Blazers for Jeff McInnis and Ruben Boumtje-Boumtje midway through the 2003-04 season for Jeff McInnis and Ruben Boumtje-Boumtje.
Darius Miles siblings: Does he have brothers and sisters?
There is no information about his siblings.
During the 2004-05 season, Miles made headlines after a confrontation with then-coach Maurice Cheeks in which Miles reportedly insulted Cheeks with racial slurs and remarked he “did not care if the team were to lose the next 20 games” since Cheeks was “going to be fired anyway”.
According to ESPN’s Chad Ford and other accounts, Miles responded to Cheeks’ request to leave by saying, “Make me.”
Miles followed Cheeks out of the room to see Blazers general manager John Nash, shouting, “That’s right, run to your daddy.” On April 19, 2005, he set a career-high with 47 points against the Denver Nuggets in a loss, tying the eighth-highest single-game output in franchise history.
