Shane Battier
Knuckleheads with Quentin Richardson & Darius Miles
The Players' Tribune
5 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2023
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
We’re back this week with 2x NBA champion and Duke legend, Shane Battier! The trio gets into Battier’s high school career at Detroit Country Day, his stint as a ball boy for the Pistons, and his illustrious career at Duke. They break down Shane’s unique approach to defense, his back-to back-championships with Miami, and the “game within the game” that he relished playing with Kobe. Tune in!
- Making a name for himself at Country Day (4:00)
- Deciding between Duke and UNC (12:10)
- NBA draft and playing for Hubie Brown (35:45)
- Defensive mindset and guarding Kobe (45:00)
- Miami Heat culture shock (58:00)
- The Heat’s 22-game win streak and Shane’s speech (1:03:00)
- Ray Allen’s shot in Game 6 and winning back-to-back Finals (1:06:30)
About Our Hosts:
NBA veterans Quentin Richardson and Darius Miles are lifelong friends and bona fide truth-tellers. Listen as they invite special guests, high-profile athletes, musicians and entertainers to get brutally honest about everything from current events to untold stories from the golden era of sports and culture. Named for the on-court celebration they made wildly popular, this unfiltered, hilarious and surprising podcast is like playing NBA 2K with no fouls.
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| 0:00.0 | Appreciate you coming on the show man. We've been wanting you to come on here and just talk about your greatness. |
| 0:06.5 | Oh shit. You did the thing of in this and you're one of the guys that we need to talk about and let the basketball world know what you brought to the table. |
| 0:15.0 | I appreciate you know the good thing I've been being retired is you're a better player today |
| 0:18.0 | and you're playing right? |
| 0:20.0 | All facts. |
| 0:21.0 | Y'all aren't that's the case for me. |
| 0:23.0 | Let us tell it. |
| 0:24.0 | You know? |
| 0:25.0 | I'm glad to be here. |
| 0:26.0 | Glad to be here, man. |
| 0:27.0 | When you first got to the league, who was the first person to bust you, |
| 0:30.0 | uh, |
| 0:31.0 | a cure rich? In the summer league. Cure Rich. Rich. |
| 0:33.0 | Summer League. |
| 0:35.0 | You ain't buzz nobody else for that first time. |
| 0:40.0 | We got one in the college. |
| 0:41.0 | Why are you standing up? |
| 0:42.0 | You heard me? |
| 0:44.0 | Summer League. |
| 0:46.0 | Respect. |
| 0:47.0 | You know what I'm saying? |
| 0:48.0 | Be mile get you say you can't be, you can't be who you say with you tell he always say I ain't |
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