Shane Battier is one of the most popular and richest Basketball Player who was born on September 9, 1978 in Birmingham, Michigan, United States. NBA defensive specialist, who was named as a member of the All-Defensive team twice during his NBA career. He also was the first player to win an NBA Championship as a member of the Miami Heat in 2012.
He along with He and Dwyane Wade became teammates on the Miami Heat. became teammates for the Miami Heat.
Shane Courtney Battier (born September 9, 1978) is an American former professional basketball player who played for various teams of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He has also been a member of the U.S. national basketball team.
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. He went on to play four years of college basketball at Duke, where he captured the 2001 National Championship and swept the major National Player of the Year awards. Battier was selected with the sixth overall pick of the 2001 NBA draft by the Vancouver Grizzlies (who soon became the Memphis Grizzlies). He was traded five years later to the Houston Rockets, and was then traded back to the Memphis Grizzlies during the 2010–2011 NBA season. He signed with the Miami Heat in 2011. His number has been retired by both Detroit Country Day School and Duke University. He has been recognized for his aggressive defense and has “routinely guarded the league’s most dangerous offensive players”. He is the only basketball player to have ever won both the Naismith Prep Player of the Year Award (1997) and the Naismith College Player of the Year (2001). Battier won two NBA championships with the Miami Heat in 2012 and 2013.
He had two kids, Zeke and Eloise, with his high school sweetheart, and wife Heidi Ufer.
