Mike Miller Will Tell You All About His Pet Monkey
The D.C. Sports Bog never lets us down. It’s a slow day in the NBA, we’re looking for something new to read and … BAM! The Sports Bog has a detailed interview with Mike Miller about his pet Java Macaque named Sonny.
Some highlights:
The two were nearly inseparable, and another NBA veteran told me that Miller used to have that monkey everywhere he went, including to the mall, where Sonny would ride around on Miller’s shoulder. Because I took a journalism class in college, I asked Miller whether people would stare.
“If you saw a guy walking around with a monkey on his shoulder, would you stare?” he asked.
Sonny had his own bedroom, but “I didn’t have no kids, so he got to post up wherever he wanted,” Miller said. He would get food from the fridge whenever he was hungry; grapes were a particular favorite. He loved playing billiards, though “he wouldn’t use a pool stick, he’d just throw the balls,” Miller said. “He had a nice jumper, too,” he added, though he said he was joking about that. But at this point, I wasn’t totally sure what was a joke or what wasn’t. Like, the oft-told tale about when Miller got a phone call saying his monkey was on the loose?
And then this about the time Sonny got loose (this is one of the better paragraphs we’ve read about anything in a long time):
“You would always put him in his room, and then we’d lock the door, and then we’d put the dogs out, and then we’d lock the front door. Well, he found out how to unlock doors, unlocked his door, went downstairs, let the dogs in the house and opened the front door. About an hour later we got a call from our neighbors, saying, ‘Your monkey is riding your dogs around the neighborhood.’…I said, ‘C’mon y’all, y’all got to get in the house.”
Because I took a journalism class in college, I asked how such a short monkey could unlock a door.
“Well, he jumped,” Miller said. “That man got bunnies, he jumped like DeShawn Stevenson and them guys.”
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July 16th, 2009 at 2:47 pm
Oscarisalakerfan says:
Funny Post dime
July 16th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
Blue says:
Does Mike Miller really talk like that?
July 16th, 2009 at 2:51 pm
Oscarisalakerfan says:
Mitch needs to trade Farmar and sun yue for this guy….
he is hilarious
July 16th, 2009 at 2:52 pm
That's whats up says:
in the picture, is that Puck from the Real World?
July 16th, 2009 at 3:22 pm
Sanssasin says:
That picture looks like Steve-O in a wig
July 16th, 2009 at 3:24 pm
BiG ShoT BoB says:
Wow this ish is hilarious. That’s like the new trend in hollywood. First it was Hogan, then the Kardashians, Now Miller. How much does it cost to get a monkey anyway? Even better question how bad does monkey shit smell on your carpet isn’t it suppose to turn into something similar to cement? That can’t be good.
July 16th, 2009 at 3:32 pm
Luigi says:
Welcome 2 DC Mike
July 16th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
Luigi says:
oh n take the monkey to tysons one day haha
July 16th, 2009 at 3:41 pm
Spliff 2 My Lou says:
This post sure beats the alternative. “Eddy Curry will tell you to pet his monkey”.
July 16th, 2009 at 3:43 pm
Mr.Wang says:
Because I took a journalism class in college, I asked myself, why am i reading this article??
July 16th, 2009 at 3:43 pm
calvin brodus says:
macaque is bigger than yours!
July 16th, 2009 at 3:49 pm
Spliff 2 My Lou says:
LMAO @ calvin brodus. Funny shit.
July 16th, 2009 at 3:50 pm
JHUSTLE says:
@Sanssasin
LMAO thats a good one man u right on the money. never thought he looked like steve-o till now but u called it right LOL
July 16th, 2009 at 3:51 pm
control says:
Spliff
Haha, Got a link to that other article? There’s something about watching a guy hit rock bottom that just makes me happy…well, when he plays for the Knicks that is.
July 16th, 2009 at 3:55 pm
vince says:
just get a dog, moron
July 16th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
isotope says:
“Well, he jumped,” Miller said. “That man got bunnies, he jumped like DeShawn Stevenson and them guys.”
July 16th, 2009 at 4:18 pm
BRUCE says:
M.Miller play with a bunch of monkeys, Arenas, Jamison, Foye, Hayward, and the biggest, stinkiest one of them all, D, Stevenson!
July 16th, 2009 at 4:28 pm
sh!tfaced says:
eddy curry would tell his monkey to “touch it!”.
July 16th, 2009 at 7:32 pm
David_Brandon says:
by how mike is talking in his interview, i’m not sure if i’m convinced he’s hella hood or hella country yet…
July 16th, 2009 at 8:06 pm
Austin Burton says:
@David — Mike is from South Dakota but is somehow hella ‘hood.
July 16th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
"Tha Boddy" Bad Like Michael says:
Stevenson is a bum and I hope they can cut him or trade his ass someday
July 17th, 2009 at 9:30 am
MSkittle says:
80 three’s in a row?? Wow
July 17th, 2009 at 11:57 am
Abe504 says:
Thats the whole wizs team, being near the dmv, i read the dc sports blog all the time. The whole team is really down to earth.
October 28th, 2009 at 1:56 am
KELLY CAMERON says:
THAT SOUND LIKE A STAR MONKEY KICKING IT LIKE A CHICKEN AND ARE YOU RECENTFUL ABOUT GOING TO COLLAGE FOR JOURNALIZIM AND NOT OPENING A NON PROFIT LONGBOARD COMPANY AND SKATING AROUND ALL DAY WITH YOUR CELEBRITY PET MONKEY IN TOW BECUASE IT SOUNDS LIKE THE LIFE FOR ME.
THANKS COOL READ FRESH VIBE ABOUT MONKEYS NICE THANK YOU