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Article: Miles poised to make his point
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- October 26, 2005
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When point guard Aaron Miles arrived at the University of Kansas
in the fall of 2001, he joined the basketball team's other newcomers
in a campaign of pulling harmless pranks on teammates. Syrup on door
handles, crank calls on road trips, that type of thing.
The stunt best remembered by Nick Collison, the Seattle
SuperSonics power forward who spent two years with Miles in Lawrence
and reached the 2003 NCAA title game with him, was one where Miles
and others would sneak into another player's empty room and lurk in
his closet.
"They wouldn't scare you right away," Collison said. "They'd wait
for 20 minutes. They'd have the patience to sit in there and just