Shane Battier Biography

Shane Battier is an American retired 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.

Shane Battier Age

He was born on September 9, 1978, in Birmingham, Michigan, USA. As of 2019, he is 41 years old.

Shane Battier Education

He 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. He went on to attend Duke, where he played four years under head coach Mike Krzyzewski. While at Duke, Battier was often the best defender on the court. He frequently took charges which prompted the Cameron Crazies to chant, “Who’s your daddy? Battier!” He led the Duke Blue Devils men’s basketball to two Final Fours, in 1999 and 2001, though his team in 1998 squandered a late 17-point lead to eventual national champion Kentucky in the regional finals.

Shane Battier Family

He was born from a black father and a white mother. More information concerning siblings will be updated soon.

Shane Battier Wife

Heidi Ufer, wife of NBA star of the Houston Rockets Shane Battier. In summer 2004, Heidi married her high school sweetheart Shane. The couple had their first son, Zeke Edward Battier, on June 2, 2008. There are no rumors of further separation of there relations.

Shane Battier Duke Hall of Fame

One of Duke’s all-time greats became the fourth Blue Devil player to earn the highest honor in college basketball on Tuesday morning. The National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame announced that Shane Battier will be part of its Class of 2019. Christian Laettner, Grant Hill, and Jason Williams have all previously been inducted into the Hall of Fame along with head coach Mike Krzyzewski. Former Duke head coach and Sun Belt Conference commissioner Vic Bubas is also in the Hall of Fame as a contributor to the game.

Battier led Duke to the national championship as a senior in 2001, when he was the consensus National Player of the Year and he also won National Defensive Player of the Year three straight times. He averaged 13.6 points, 6.1 rebounds, 1.8 steals and 1.7 blocks per game during his four years with the Blue Devils and his No. 31 jersey hanging in the rafters at Cameron Indoor Stadium.

After a 13-year NBA career that featured two championship rings with the Miami Heat, Battier is now the Heat’s director of basketball analytics and development.

Battier will be inducted into the College Basketball Hall of Fame as a player Nov. 24 in Kansas City along with Indiana’s Calbert Cheaney, Purdue’s Terry Dischinger, UNLV’s Larry Johnson, Providence’s Ernie DiGregorio, and Stanford’s Todd Lichti. Coaches Homer Drew, Rick Majerus, and Lute Olson—whose Arizona team lost to Battier and the Blue Devils in the 2001 national title game—are also part of the 2019 class.

Shane Battier Net worth

He has a net worth of $25 million dollars. His salary is $3 million per year and during his career, he has earned over $50 million. There is no doubt that he is earning good pay from his career.

Shane Battier NBA career

Memphis Grizzlies (2001–2006)

Battier was selected by the Grizzlies with the sixth pick of the first round of the 2001 NBA draft. At the time, the Grizzlies were in the process of moving from Vancouver to Memphis. Pau Gasol of Spain was selected in the same draft with the number three pick, by the Atlanta Hawks, then traded to the Grizzlies.

Battier was a versatile player with the size to play inside and the range to score from further out (particularly the corner three-pointer). However, he made his living as a hustle player on the defensive end, where he defended three positions (shooting guard, power forward, small forward) with a high degree of skill, netted a good number of blocks and steals, dove for loose balls, and frequently drew offensive fouls from his opponent.

Return to Memphis (2011)

On February 24, Battier was traded by the Houston Rockets back to the Memphis Grizzlies, where Battier was originally drafted and played the first years of his career, in exchange for center Hasheem Thabeet, DeMarre Carroll, and a 1st round draft pick. On April 17, with Memphis down by two, Battier made the game-winning three, helping Memphis to its first playoff win in franchise history, following losses in its first 12 playoff games.

Miami Heat (2011–2014)

Battier as a member of the Heat in 2012 Battier signed on as a member of the Heat on December 9, 2011. On March 2, 2012, Battier scored a season-high 18 points, going 6–7 from the three-point line, in a one-point loss to the Utah Jazz. In-Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals against the Boston Celtics, Battier recorded his first career playoff double-double in a 93–79 win. In the 2012 NBA Finals, Battier scored 58 points in five games and won his first NBA Championship. His 11.6 points per game exceeded his 4.8 average in the 2011–12 regular season, and he made 15–26 three-point shots. His 57.7 three-point shooting percentage in the 2012 NBA Finals is the highest three-point shooting percentage ever recorded by a player who made 15 or more three-pointers in an NBA Finals series

Personal life

In summer 2004, Battier married Heidi Ufer, his high school sweetheart. They had their first son, Zeke Edward Battier, on June 2, 2008. On April 17, 2011, Heidi had their second child, a daughter named Eloise.

Battier is a co-owner of D1 Sports Training in Memphis. In 2010 Battier was chosen as the seventh-smartest athlete in sports by Sporting News. Battier has said that following the United States Senator Carl Levin’s 2013 announcement of retirement, the Michigan Democratic Party contacted Battier to gauge his interest in potentially running for the Senate, but he was not interested in running.

In August 2015, he lost his younger brother, Jeremy (football star at Detroit Country Day and former Duke football player, but sidelined by concussion injuries) to the ever-growing heroin epidemic. Not too long after Jeremy’s death, Jeremy’s wife, Dr. Shawna, died from a heroin overdose as well. They both ran a chic and successful dental boutique (Seven Star Dental) in Ohio.

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