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It’s Miller Time in H’wood Hills

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Indiana Pacers superstar REGGIE MILLER, an All-Star shooting guard and a leader of the U.S. Dream Team II, and his wife, actress MARITA STAVROU, have purchased a home in the Hollywood Hills Sunset Strip area for $1.1 million.

Miller, 30, holds the single-game playoff record for most three-point field goals made in one quarter. (He made five in the same June, 1994, game in which he scored 25 points during the final quarter.)

His sister, Cheryl, a 1984 Olympic gold medalist, now head women’s basketball coach at USC, is in the Basketball Hall of Fame.

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Reggie Miller grew up, one of five children, in Riverside. He was the third-leading all-time scorer at UCLA, with 1,095 points, before the 1987 NBA draft, when he was a Pacers first-round pick. He signed a five-year contract extension for $16 million in December, 1990.

“Reggie and Marita have a lot of friends here,” a source said. So they bought in Los Angeles, although they also have homes in Manhattan and Indianapolis.

They bought what has been described as “a gated mini-estate,” with six bedrooms and maid’s quarters in 7,000 square feet. Built four years ago, the Mediterranean-style home also has gardens, a pool and city views.

It doesn’t have a basketball hoop, but the Millers’ new home has an area for him to do practice shots, a source said. And the ceilings are 10 to 12 feet high. At 6-foot-7, the Pacers star looked at quite a few houses before he found ceilings that were high enough, the source added.

The seller built the house for himself, then moved to Israel and listed the home, first at $2.45 million. It was recently for sale at $1.29 million and was leased to Hollywood publicist Bob Gibson, who moved to Montecito.

Craig Blanchard and Jerry Primack of Prudential California/Rodeo Realty’s Sunset Strip office represented the sellers, and Adrian Grant of Fred Sands Estates Directors, Beverly Hills office, represented the buyers.

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TV producer/writer GLEN LARSON (“Quincy,” “Magnum,” “The Fall Guy,” and, currently, “One West Waikiki” with Cheryl Ladd) has put his Palm Springs home of a dozen years on the market at just under $2.6 million.

Larson, 56, hasn’t been able to use the desert home much, because he has been spending most of his time producing and filming “One West Waikiki,” which will air in syndication this September. When not in Hawaii, where he also has a home, Larson has been overseeing construction of his 12,000-square-foot Bel-Air home. He sold his Holmby Hills home last fall for $6 million.

His Palm Springs estate has an eight-bedroom, 10,000-square-foot main house and a four-bedroom guest house on 1.5 acres with two pools, a spa and a tennis court. Larson has remodeled the Mediterranean-style home, built in 1953.

The main house has a family room with a sunken bar and five overhead built-in TV screens. It also has a media/screening room, a glass-enclosed garden room and a 1,200-square-foot master suite, with fireplace and sauna.

Larson’s series, “P.S. I Love You,” which aired from 1991-92, was filmed almost entirely at the estate, which is listed with Louise Hampton of Prudential California Realty, Palm Springs.

FRANK YABLANS, executive producer of Paramount’s new action-adventure thriller “Congo,” and his wife, TRACY HOTCHNER YABLANS, who wrote the 700-page “Pregnancy and Childbirth” and the just-released handbook “Pregnancy Pure & Simple” (Avon: $10), have sold their Beverly Hills-area home and moved to the Hamptons in New York, sources say.

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Frank Yablans, 59, also co-wrote the screenplay for “Mommie Dearest” with his wife and others, and he was chief operating officer and board chairman of MGM/UA in the 1980s.

The couple had lived in the three-bedroom, 3,000-square-foot home for about three years. They sold the recently remodeled home, built in 1946, for close to its asking price of about $1.1 million, sources say.

Deborah Moore of Fred Sands Estates, Beverly Hills, represented the sellers, and Gayle Weiss of Prudential Rodeo Realty, Brentwood, represented the buyers, described by others as a producer and a casting director.

ROBERT MINKOFF, whose first feature directing assignment after graduating from CalArts was as co-director of Disney’s “The Lion King,” has purchased a three-story home in the Los Feliz area for $665,000, sources say.

The gated, Mediterranean villa, with city and mountain views, was built in 1934 and has four bedrooms in 4,000 square feet. The third level has a wine cellar and library, to be turned into a media/screening room, a source said.

Minkoff bought the home from Robert Goes, an environmental graphic designer who moved to an ocean-view home in Laguna Beach.

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Ann Cruse Segal of Jon Douglas Co., Glendale, represented Minkoff; Shyrl Lorino and Jeffrey Young of Progressive Properties, Los Feliz, represented Goes.

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