Reggie Miller is coming to the Garden for Wednesday’s Game 2 as a TNT analyst.
And while the Knicks tormentor probably won’t get a warm greeting from the crowd, Miller’s most famous fan nemesis will embrace him “with a hug, like we always do.”
“That stuff is two-plus decades old,” Spike Lee told The Post. “There’s no rivalry between Reggie and I. It’s all love. Peace and love. Two grown Black men who respect each other.”
Miller was originally scheduled to broadcast the first two games of the Nuggets-Timberwolves series, but TNT — perhaps sensing the opportunity for nostalgic interest — switched Miller to Knicks-Pacers for Game 2.
He’ll join play-by-play voice Brian Anderson and analyst Stan Van Gundy, who are combining for Monday’s Game 1.
Almost thirty years ago, Lee was blamed for activating Miller with taunts from his courtside seat at MSG.
The result was Miller going off for 25 of his 39 points in the fourth quarter of the Pacers’ comeback in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference finals, all while exchanging trash talk with Lee.
It ended with Miller flashing his infamous choke sign.
Down 3-2 in the series, the Knicks won the next two games to advance to the 1994 Finals and save Lee from NYC vitriol.
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“I got blamed for Game 5. Went to Indiana. John Starks (26 points in Game 6) saved me because I would’ve had to move,” Lee told The Post.
But any beef was settled almost immediately.
They hugged after Game 7 and Lee even surprised Miller with an award at this year’s All-Star weekend in Indianapolis.
“There’s going to be no hostilities. That stuff is past history,” Lee said. “And I think we both regret that it came to that.”