Darius Miles Net Worth, Early and Personal Life, Career

Darius Miles Net Worth $100,000

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Darius LaVar Miles professionally identified as Darius Miles is a 41-year-old  American retired professional basketball player born on October 9th, 1981 in Belleville, Illinois.

Aside from revealing to you exactly Darius Miles net worth, we’ll further satisfy your intent by feeding you with some relevant shreds of information like his early and personal life, playing career, acting career, and legal issues so you can have best of knowledge about him.

Darius Miles Early and Personal Life

Darius LaVar Miles professionally identified as Darius Miles is a 41-year-old  American retired professional basketball player born on October 9th, 1981 in Belleville, Illinois.

Darius Miles’ father was Gilbert White and his mother was Ethel Miles. However Darius’ parents were never married. Miles was raised by his mother, alongside his his grandparents.

Darius Miles had his education at the East St. Louis Lincoln High School, and proceeded to the East St. Louis Senior High School in East St. Louis, Illinois.

Regarding relationships and family life, Darius Miles in 2005,got married to Brandi Nash. The couple had met in 2003 and began dating.

Darius Miles Playing Career

Early Years

Before Darius Miles declared to enter the 2000 NBA Draft, he had signed a National Letter of Intent to play for the St. John’s Red Storm men’s basketball team, with fellow top recruit Omar Cook.

As good testimony,  the head coach for the Red Storm at the time, Mike Jarvis, said “Miles’s commitment significantly helped obtain Cook and the other incoming freshmen from the recruiting class”.

Darius Miles was the First Team NBA All-Rookie in 2001, and the first for a prep-to-pro player.

Darius Miles Professional Playing Career 

Darius Miles with the Los Angeles Clippers (2000–2002)

Darius Miles got into the 2000 NBA draft and was picked by the Los Angeles Clippers as the third overall pick. During that time, the highest player had been drafted directly from high school.

For the next couple of seasons, Darius Miles, Quentin Richardson, Corey Maggette, Lamar Odom and Elton Brand excited fans with their high flying style of playing.

Darius Miles played his very first two seasons with the Clippers, and he earned an NBA All-Rookie Team first team honor in 2001.

Throughout those years, Darius Miles, Richardson, and the others helped the Clippers improve their win column from 15 wins in 99-00, to 31 wins in 00-01 to finish with 39 wins in 01-02.

During the 2001to 2002  season, the Clippers appeared to be on the border of their first playoff appearance since 1997. However, they were only able to win 3 of the last 12 games of the season, and ultimately finished five games out of the playoffs.

Darius Miles With The Cleveland Cavaliers (2002–2004)

Darius Miles following the 2001 to 2002 season was traded to the Cleveland Cavaliers, alongside Harold Jamison.The duo were traded  in exchange for Andre Miller and Bryant Stith.

Darius Miles spent one and a half seasons with the Cleveland Cavaliers and was thereafter traded to the Portland Trail Blazers for Jeff McInnis and Ruben Boumtje-Boumtje midway till 2004 season.

Darius Miles With The Portland Trail Blazers (2004–2008)

Darius Miles during the 2004 to 2005 season  made headlines after a confrontation with then-coach Maurice Cheeks in which he reportedly insulted Cheeks with racial slurs.

Darius Miles remarked he “did not care if the team were to lose the next 20 games” since Maurice Cheeks was “going to be fired anyway”.

From the  ESPN’s Chad Ford and other reports, after Maurice Cheeks asked Darius Miles to leave, he, Darius responded by saying “Make me.”

Maurice Cheeks left the room to see the Blazers’ general manager, John Nash, and Darius Miles ran after him shouting, “That’s right, run to your daddy.”

Darius Miles in April 2005 scored a career-high 47 points in a loss against the Denver Nuggets that equalled the eighth-highest single-game output in the history of franchise.

In the Latter part of the 2005 to 2006 season, Darius Miles sustained a  severe injury in his right knee. Darius Miles played in his 40th and last game of the season five days later in April 2006.

Darius however missed the entire 2006 to 2007 and 2007 to 2008 NBA seasons as a result of  a microfracture surgery to repair his injury.

The Portland Trail Blazers petitioned the NBA and the NBA Players Association in March 2008 to provide an independent doctor to decide whether Darius miles could play again.

The petition was an attempt to shed Darius Miles’s $18 million contract. Unfortunately, the examination came out that Darius’s knee injury was severe enough to be career-ending.

The outcome prompted the Blazers to request waivers for Darius Miles’s release in April 2008.

Darius Miles however had the option to sign on with another team if offered a contract, to potentially revert the $18 million savings the Blazers hoped to gain if he played in 10 games in 2008.

Matters became Complicated as a result of a 10-game suspension for violation of the league’s substance abuse policy levied by the NBA, and  Darius  Miles was required to serve before  playing for any NBA team.

Darius Miles With The Memphis Grizzlies (2008–2009)

In August 2008, the Celtics signed Darius Miles to a non-guaranteed contract and offered him a chance to earn a roster spot at the training camp.

Though Darius Miles worked out twice with the team and being impressed with his health and attitude, Darius was  waived in October just before the regular season began.

Darius Miles in December 2008 signed with the Memphis Grizzlies, and after sitting out his ten-game suspension, he made his season debut with the team in January 2009.

Darius played the last 1:46 in a 102–82 win against the Dallas Mavericks, and in January, Darius Miles after collecting only 2 rebounds and 2 blocks in 9 minutes over two games, was waived.

In the same January, following a controversy over Darius Miles’s  re-signing, the Grizzlies signed him to a 10-day contract.

In the next game played against the Cavaliers in January , Darius Miles played 14 minutes and exhibited some of the swiftness and leaping ability he once possessed.

Darius Miles gathered 13 points on 4 of 6 shooting and made 5 of 7 free throws in a 102–87 loss.

In January 2009, the Grizzlies signed Darius Miles for the rest of the 2008 to 2009 season, and in July 2009, the Grizzlies made-public their rights on Darius Miles in order to save cap room.

Darius Miles Career-ending Injury and  Controversy

In the NBA rules, when a team is granted salary-cap relief for a career-ending injury to a player who thereafter participates in at least ten games the next season, the salary cap relief is usually terminated and the amount added back to the team’s salary cap ceiling.

In January 2009, Darius Miles played six pre-season games with the Celtics and two and was released from a non-guaranteed contract by the Grizzlies.

The Portland Trail Blazers threatened to sue any of the other 29 NBA teams that selected Darius Miles and played him specifically to adversely impact their salary cap and tax positions.

The NBA players’ association in response, threatened to file a grievance against the Trail Blazers.

There was a directive from the NBA Commissioner’s office the following day declaring that any team could sign Darius Miles and the League would approve the contract.

The Memphis Grizzlies re-signed Darius Miles in January 2009 to a 10-day non-guaranteed contract, and Darius Miles played the two games necessary to trigger re-addition of the $18 million to Portland’s cap amount.

Darius Miles re-signed two additional 10-day contracts with the Grizzlies and was thereafter signed for the rest of the 2008 to 2009 season in January 2009.

Darius Miles played his final NBA game in April 2009 in a 110 – 119 loss to the Phoenix Suns, and  recorded 2 points, 2 rebounds and 1 assist in 6 and half minutes of playing time.

Darius Miles’s playing career almost came to an end when he was released by the Portland Trail Blazers in April 2008 after two years away from the court following microfracture surgery on his right knee.

Darius Miles returned to action during the 2008 to 2009 season as a member of the Memphis Grizzlies.

Darius Miles Acting Career

Away form basketball playing, Darius Miles had dived into acting and his acting career highlights are as follows:

In 2004, Darius Miles had a role in The Perfect Score, portraying the high school basketball star who needed to achieve a qualifying SAT score to attend St. John’s University.

His role was closely paralleling his real-life situation as he came out of high school.

Darius Miles was featured in National Lampoon’s Van Wilder in 2002. He co-starred  then-Clipper teammates Michael Olowokandi and Quentin Richardson.

Miles also in 2004, was featured in a documentary titled The Youngest Guns , being a detail of  he and Richardson’s first few years in the NBA.

Darius Miles Legal Issues

In August  2011, Darius Miles was arrested in Lambert-St. Louis International Airport for possession of a fully loaded gun.

After Darius Miles had made close to $62 million in his NBA career, he filed for bankruptcy in September 2016.

In October 2021, Darius Miles was indicted for insurance fraud in the Southern District of New York for allegedly defrauding the NBA’s health and welfare benefit plan.

Darius Miles Hobbies and Areas of Interests

Darius Mile aside from playing and acting has other things he takes delight in doing. The most notable of them all is the following:

Darius Miles is the co-host of a podcast, ‘The Knuckleheads’,  alongside with Quentin Richardson. A the podcast, they talk about upcoming and retired professional basketball players.

Darius Miles Net Worth

Majority of Darius Miles net worth comes form his playing career and thereafter from his screen appearances.

Without further delay, Darius  Miles net worth is estimated at a hundred thousand U S Dollars ( $100,000).

Conclusion

Darius Miles has been described by many as a good team player who has helped the various teams he had signed with  record the best of scores.

Even when he decided to make some screen appearances, Darius Miles’s performances were nothing less than outstanding and exceptional.

It won’t be out of place if we say there will be a major rise and increase in Darius Miles net worth in no distant time since he’s still into acting and may likely go into some other ventures in the course of time.