34 Facts About Shane Battier

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Shane Courtney Battier was born on September 9,1978 and is an American former professional basketball player.

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Shane Battier worked for ESPN and recently joined the board of Yext.

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Shane Battier's teams won championships at the college, professional, and international levels.

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Shane Battier was born and raised in Birmingham, Michigan, and attended Detroit Country Day School in nearby Beverly Hills, where he won many awards including the 1997 Mr Basketball award.

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Shane Battier was the only child in the school with a black father and a white mother.

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Shane Battier graduated from Detroit Country Day School with a 3.96 grade point average and was named the school's outstanding student in his senior year.

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Shane Battier went on to attend Duke, where he played four years under head coach Mike Krzyzewski.

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In 2001, Battier was a consensus national player of the year with honors including the Naismith, Associated Press and Sporting News College Player of the Year awards; the John R Wooden Award; and the Oscar Robertson and Adolph Rupp trophies.

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Shane Battier subsequently had his jersey No 31 retired by the Blue Devils.

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Additionally, Shane Battier was a three-time awardee of the NABC Defensive Player of the Year.

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Shane Battier was a two-time Academic All-American and Academic All-American of the year in 2001.

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Shane Battier was second behind Jon Scheyer in the Duke record book for minutes played in a single season as of March 28,2010, and had 36 double-figure scoring games in a single season.

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Shane Battier held the unofficial record among NCAA Division I men's players for most games won in a career with 131, a record that would fall in 2017 to Gonzaga's Przemek Karnowski.

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Shane Battier was selected by the Grizzlies with the sixth pick of the first round of the 2001 NBA draft.

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Shane Battier was a versatile player with the size to play inside and the range to score from further out.

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On June 28,2006, Shane Battier was traded by the Grizzlies to the Houston Rockets in exchange for Stromile Swift and the Rockets' number 8 selection Rudy Gay in the 2006 NBA draft.

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Shane Battier has often been called "the ultimate glue guy" for playing sound, fundamental, team-oriented basketball, making his teammates more effective without flash or padding his own stats, and for making the most of his skills with discipline and hustle rather than raw athleticism.

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Shane Battier played for the US national team in the 2006 FIBA World Championship, winning a bronze medal.

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Shane Battier made it perfectly clear that starting a game or hearing his name before a game was not important to him.

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On March 21,2010 in a game against the New York Knicks, Shane Battier suffered a season-ending knee injury.

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On January 24,2011, Shane Battier scored a season-high 19 points in a win over the Minnesota Timberwolves.

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Shane Battier signed on as a member of the Heat on December 9,2011.

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Shane Battier became the only player in NBA history to have been a part of two 20-game winning streaks.

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Shane Battier struggled with his shooting in the playoffs until scoring 18 points in an intense Game 7 against the Spurs to win his second championship.

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Shane Battier did not play in Game 2 but did play in the other 4 games of the series.

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In total for the 2014 Finals, Shane Battier played for 32 minutes and recorded 1 rebound, 1 assist, 1 steal but did not record any points the entire series.

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On February 16,2017, Shane Battier re-joined the Heat in their front office, as the director of basketball development and analytics.

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On June 18,2021, it was reported that Shane Battier would be leaving his full time position with the Miami Heat front office, but would still act as a consultant for the organization.

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Shane Battier worked as a commentator for ESPN for roughly a year after his retirement before mutually deciding to part ways with the network.

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In summer 2004, Shane Battier married Heidi Ufer, his high school sweetheart.

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Shane Battier is a co-owner of D1 Sports Training in Memphis.

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In 2010 Shane Battier was chosen as the seventh-smartest athlete in sports by Sporting News.

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Shane Battier has said that following United States Senator Carl Levin's 2013 announcement of retirement, the Michigan Democratic Party contacted Shane Battier to gauge his interest in potentially running for the Senate, but he was not interested in running.

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On June 30,2021, Shane Battier joined the board of directors at Yext.