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Draft combine star Isaiah Miles embraces comic book fandom
- Updated: May 13, 2016
9:02 PM ETIsaiah Miles, a huge comic book fan thanks to his dad, sports plenty of comic-related tattoos on his arm. Adam Reisinger
CHICAGO — There are a lot of labels you could put on Isaiah Miles: senior, forward, Saint Joseph’s Hawk, potential NBA draftee, prospect with rising stock, and so on. But at the NBA draft combine in Chicago, there was another label Miles applied to himself.
“I’m a nerd,” he said.
The 6-foot-7 senior who averaged 18.1 PPG and 8.1 RPG last season doesn’t back away from that label. In fact, he wears it on his sleeve — literally.
Miles has comic book characters and logos tattooed on the full length of his right arm, having gotten his first one when he was about 17 then adding to it throughout the years. But his comic fandom, which was passed down from his father, goes back even further than that.
“As long as I can remember, just waking up those Saturday mornings and watching those Saturday morning comic [cartoons],” he said. “Spider-Man, Justice League, Amazing Friends, all that stuff. He definitely introduced me to that stuff at a young age.”
As a basketball player, Miles is torn between two worlds when it comes to his comic fandom. None of his teammates at Saint Joe’s were interested in …
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