Shane Battier
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Here at the TD Garden.
I mean...
It was the greatest game I've ever seen anybody play.
It's a hard argument to beat.
Given the stakes, given the gravity of the situation, given the historical implications.
Historical!
For a simple reason.
For a simple reason.
Is it because you scored eight points that game?
LeBron did something twice that Jordan, I don't think, could have done once.
He won two NBA titles with Shane Battier as a starting power forward.
No way!
No way Jordan could have done that.
As great as Jordan was, LeBron dragged me across the finish line.
The albatross had never been so heavy.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
My last year.
My last year.
When I was told without being told that our best chance of winning doesn't include you, Shane.
When Spoh started to sit me in the fourth quarter, nothing was worse to me than sitting me in crunch time.