Sept. 24, 2009

Phoenix, AZ- Former Idaho State basketball star Antoine Miguel "Slim" Millien has a new nickname, thanks to the Harlem Globetrotters. The legendary team have signed six new players, including Millien that will join Globetrotter veterans for the team's annual training camp to vie for spots on the world's most famous basketball team. The Globetrotters open training camp in New York on today.

Antoine "Bones" Millien originally from Queens, NY, is described in a Globetrotters press release as "a long and lean 6-9 dunking machine who led Idaho State University in scoring and blocks in his final season at the school." Millien threw down nearly 50 dunks his senior year, and his 93 blocked shots were easily a school record. His 129 blocks and 2.39 blocks per game are both second in school history. Millien was given the nickname "Bones" by the members of the Globetrotter staff.

Millien was a crowd pleaser during the final two years of the Doug Oliver era from 2004-06, routinely throwing down monstrous dunks and swatting balls into the crowd at Reed Gym. Millien's field goal percentage of .630 still stands as the single season record, and his career mark of .570 is second all-time.

The rookie class is also led by 6-7 Charlie "Cobra" Coley - selected in the Globetrotters' third annual player draft in June - who missed winning the 2009 College Slam Dunk Championship by a single point in a dunk-off. A University of North Carolina at Charlotte product from Lake Worth, Fla., Coley sports a 40-inch vertical leap and once dunked while jumping over a car.

Joining Coley will be Tay "Firefly" Fisher, a 5-9 sharpshooting dynamo out of Siena College. A 2008 Globetrotters draftee, he helped lead the Saints to the 2007-08 MAAC regular season and postseason titles and a stunning 83-62 upset of SEC power Vanderbilt in the first round of the 2008 NCAA Tournament. Fisher, who hails from Kingston, N.Y., shot a blistering 44.4 percent from three-point range his senior season.

The other rookies competing at training camp in New York are: Donte "Hammer" Harrison, a native of Brooklyn, N.Y. The 6-8 powerhouse led the Hampton University Pirates in field goal percentage and blocked shots in 2008-09 and was the team's second leading rebounder. Milone "The Spark" Clark of Gibson, N.C., an explosive 6-4 guard who played for the NBA Development League's Sioux Falls Skyforce in the 2008-09 season. Roscoe "Sarge" Johnson, from Sterling, Va., who attended Allegany College of Maryland before joining the U.S. Armed Forces. A phenomenal dunker, the 6-4 Sarge still serves his country as a member of the Reserves.

These players will join Globetrotter stars Big Easy Lofton, Flight Time Lang, Special K Daley, Scooter Christensen, Ant Atkinson, Handles Franklin and many others as the Globetrotters prepare for their 84th consecutive season of touring the world.

The Globetrotters' training camp will culminate with the team's third annual private performance in Harlem on Monday, Oct. 5. Presented in cooperation with the NYC Police Athletic League, the Globetrotters will showcase their spectacular brand of fun family entertainment for thousands of smiling Harlem school children with a game against the Washington Generals at the 369th Harlem Armory.

Ironically, former Bengal Ammer Johnson is a current member of the Washington Generals.