I Love Being the Enemy: A Season on the Court with the NBA's Best Shooter and Sharpest Tongue

Miller has two claims to fame: for eight years he has been one of the stalwarts on the Indiana Pacers, the perennial bridesmaids in the Eastern Conference championships of the NBA; and he is the brother of Cheryl Miller, generally conceded to be the best female basketball player of all time. He has built a reputation not only as a top player but also as what hoopsters call a trash talker, trying to upset opponents with his on-court commentary. But if the examples of such verbal assaults presented here, with the aid of Los Angeles Times staffer Wojciechowski (Nothing but Net), are a fair sample, America's standup comics need lose no sleep. The book follows the Pacers through the 1994-1995 season game by game, when once again they came close but won no cigar, and is indistinguishable from a dozen other books of the same sort. Photos not seen by PW. (Nov.)