“We addressed it as a team. As soon as I brought it up to them, they immediately understood how (Miller's pregame pat-down) could be interpreted, and we all felt awful about it.'
Miller had received the pat-down upon his introduction well before the Jan. 15 arrest of then-teammate Darius Miles and another man on capital murder charges in the shooting death of 23-year-old Jamea Harris. Then, police testimony last week accused the second-ranked Crimson Tide's biggest star of, though his attorney said he never handled it and didn't know it was going to be used for a crime.
“They explained to me that it’s like when TSA checks you when you get on a plane. And now Brandon’s cleared for takeoff. We as the adults in the room should have been more sensitive to how it could have been interpreted. I dropped the ball. That’s it, I dropped the ball on it. I can assure you it won’t happen again.”
The Tide can clinch the Southeastern Conference regular season title outright with a win Wednesday night against rival Auburn. Miller is the SEC's leading scorer and fifth-leading rebounder, averaging 19.7 points and 8.0 rebounds per game.
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