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09/25/2017 – Battier – 32nd Annual Great Sports Legends Dinner – Arrivals – New York Hilton Midtown – New York City, NY, USA – Photo Credit: Laurence Agron / PRPhotos.com
Birth Name: Shane Courtney Battier
Place of Birth: Birmingham, Michigan, U.S.
Date of Birth: September 9, 1978
Ethnicity: * father – African-American * mother – European
Shane Battier is an American professional basketball player. A small forward, he played for the Memphis Grizzlies, the Houston Rockets, and the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association (NBA), and for the U.S. national team. He is a co-owner of D1 Sports Training in Memphis, and a minority owner of the Tampa Bay Rays of Major League Baseball (MLB). He is 6′8″.
His father is black. His mother is white. An article by Michael Lewis in the New York Times detailed that during his youth, Shane found it difficult to fit in with both his white and black friends.
Shane is married to Heidi Ufer, with whom he has two children.