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Darius Miles Net Worth: How Rich is the Retired NBA Player Actually?

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3 years ago

October 8, 2021

Darius Miles is a 40 years old retired American professional basketball player. He was drafted third overall straight out of high school by the Los Angeles Clippers in the 2000 NBA draft. Miles was the first prep-to-pro player to be named as an NBA All-Rookie. As of 2022, Darius Miles net worth is estimated to be around $200 thousand.

Full Name	Darius LaVar Miles
Birth Date	October 9, 1981
Birth Place	Belleville, Illinois, U. S.
Profession	Former Basketball Player
Wife	Brandi Miles
Net Worth	$200 thousand

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Early life

Darius Miles was born on the 9th of October, 1981 in Belleville, United States. He has not provided enough detail regarding his parents and early life. However, it is believed that he was interested in basketball since his early days. Miles has completed his high school graduation from East St. Louis Senior High School.

Darius Miles Net Worth & Career

Miles was selected by the Los Angeles Clippers straight from the high school in the 2000 NBA draft. He was the highest player to get drafted in the NBA draft at that time. Before he entered the 2000 NBA draft, he signed a National Letter of Intent to represent the St. John’s Red Storm men’s basketball team.

Darius received an NBA All-Rookie Team first-team honor in the year 2001. He along with other team members helped the Clippers to win 15 games in the 1999-2000 season, 31 wins in the 2000-01 season, and 39 wins in the 2001-02 season. After the 2001-02 season, Miles was traded to the Cleveland Cavaliers. He played with the Cavaliers for a season and a half, and then, he was traded to the Portland Trail Blazers.

Miles reportedly signed a contract worth $18 million with the Cleveland Clippers. While playing in the 2005-2006 season, he severely injured his right knee, after which, he had to miss the entire 2006-07 and 2007-08 NBA seasons. The severe knee injury was later turned out to be a career-ending point for him which prompted the Blazers to request his release on 14th April 2008.

In August 2008, he was signed on a non-guaranteed contract with Boston Celtics. Despite he impressed the Celtics with his health and attitude, Miles was waived by the team on October 20. Then, in December 2008, he was signed with the Memphis Grizzlies. On January 4, 2009, he finally made his season debut with Memphis playing at the last 1:46.

Miles was signed by the Grizzles for the 2008-09 season on January 30, 2009. After five months in June 2009, the team renounced their rights on him in order to save cap room. He was released from a non-guaranteed contract by the Memphis Grizzlies on January 8, 2009. However, he was re-signed by the Grizzlies on January 10, 2009, for a 10-day non-guaranteed contract.

Personal Life

Darius Miles is married to a lady named Brandi Nash. He tied the knot with his wife Brandi in 2005. Darius has kept his marriage life away from the media limelight due to which we have not got much of the information about his beloved wife, Brandi Nash.

Darius Miles is one of the 19 former NBA players who was arrested and indicted for NBA insurance fraud on October 7, 2021. Miles has been charged with defrauding the NBA league’s health and welfare benefit $4 million fraud scheme. According to the indictment, he engaged in a fraud scheme by submitting false and fraudulent claims that were never actually incurred.

The fraud scheme was carried out from 2017 to 2020 where they received false claims of around $3.9 million. As per the sources, each of the people received around $2.5 million in fraudulent proceeds.