Former Blue Devil Shane Battier retired from the NBA in 2014 but he remains a singular figure. Dubbed the No-Stat All-Star, Battier had a profound but subtle influence on games and while other players routinely underestimated him, he usually managed to affect the outcome of a game despite minimal statistical impacts.
This despite being, as his Houston GM Daryl Morey said, a marginal NBA athlete.
One guy who really couldn’t stand to see Battier on the schedule was the late Kobe Bryant, who Battier called the greatest player on the planet.
In this clip, Battier really gives Bryant fits.