Category: Shane Battier
Friday, February 8th, 2013
All is well in Miami. The defending NBA champions sit in first place in the Eastern Conference heading into the weekend at 32-14, one and a half games ahead of the New York Knicks. Although Miami has played down to competition and struggled at times it is right where it ...
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Monday, October 29th, 2012
Three members of the Miami Heat get the lion's share of the attention, so it's easy to forget the important role Shane Battier played in their championship 2011-12 season. The veteran sidekick captured his first title along with LeBron, D-Wade and Chris Bosh, but now he's even more thirsty for ...
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Friday, June 29th, 2012
When the Miami Heat got together in the offseason two years ago, they threw a ridiculous laser light show party in South Beach before LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh ever played a game. Then LeBron made some ridiculous comments after getting caught up in the excitement of forming ...
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Monday, June 25th, 2012
Shane Battier experienced winning his first major championship when he was a 22-year-old at Duke. About 11 years later, he added another one to the list last week when he won an NBA title ring with the Miami Heat. And he ended up playing a bigger role in it than ...
Posted in College Basketball, Duke Blue Devils, Miami Heat, NBA, Oklahoma City Thunder | 1 Comment »
Monday, March 19th, 2012
When a No. 15 seed in the NCAA tournament takes out a No. 2 seed in the opening round, there are bound to be cheers from fans of the Cinderella and panic from those fans of the highly seeded team that just took a nosedive. When that No. 2 seed ...
Posted in College Basketball, Duke Blue Devils, Miami Heat, NBA | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011
The narrative surrounding the Miami Heat last year -- outside of the arrival of the Big 3 of course -- was whether there were enough complimentary pieces around LeBron, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh. The answer was not an unequivocal no, but there's no denying that the Big 3 could ...
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Friday, November 18th, 2011
Shane Battier doesn't know when he'll be playing basketball again. He also doesn't know who he'd be playing for. Battier is one of those interesting cases of being a free agent who can't discuss or sign a deal with teams during the NBA lockout, but he doesn't seem all that ...
Posted in College Basketball, Duke Blue Devils, NBA, Penn State Nittany Lions | 1 Comment »
Thursday, July 7th, 2011
Just like the NFL, the players and owners in the NBA couldn’t come to an agreement on a new collective bargaining agreement before the clock struck midnight on the old agreement. Because of that, the NBA has shut down their business and they have gone into lockout mode. While the ...
Posted in Memphis Grizzlies, NBA | 6 Comments »
Friday, April 22nd, 2011
Shane Battier had heard about days like the one that he had on Sunday. Now that he's had time to come down from it all, he told his story on the radio.
Battier hit what turned out to be the game-winning shot in the Memphis Grizzlies' road upset over the San ...
Posted in Memphis Grizzlies, NBA, San Antonio Spurs | No Comments »
Monday, February 28th, 2011
Shane Battier still remembers the disdain he felt from Houston fans when Memphis traded him there about half a decade ago. He can laugh about it now, but says he remembers the team getting booed for making that trade. When the Rockets traded Battier back to the Grizzlies at the ...
Posted in Houston Rockets, Memphis Grizzlies, NBA | 12 Comments »
