New York, NY (SportsNetwork.com) – Miami Heat forward Shane Battier was named the winner of the NBA’s Twyman-Stokes Teammate of the Year Award on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Battier was one of 12 players nominated by a panel of NBA legends and garnered 1,322 points in a vote among current players — 524 more than the second-place finishing Al Jefferson.<\/p>\n
The award honors the player deemed the best teammate based on selfless play, on and off-court leadership as a mentor and role model to other NBA players, and his commitment and dedication to his team.<\/p>\n
Last year, Chauncey Billups won the inaugural award, which honors the storied friendship between Hall-of-Famers Jack Twyman and Maurice Stokes.<\/p>\n
Twyman and Stokes spent three seasons as teammates on the Rochester\/Cincinnati Royals from 1955 to 1958. In the last game of the 1957-58 regular season, Stokes suffered an on-court injury that led to him falling into a coma days later, leaving him permanently paralyzed. Diagnosed with posttraumatic encephalopathy, a brain injury that damaged his motor-control center, Stokes was supported for the rest of his life by Twyman, who became his legal guardian and advocate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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