Heat forward Shane Battier picked as winner of NBA's Teammate of the Year award
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Shane Battier has been announced as the second winner of the NBA's Twyman-Stokes Teammate of the Year award.
The award recognizes selfless play, leadership, work as a role model to other players and commitment to a player's team. On Battier's behalf, the NBA will also make a $25,000 donation to the Battier Take Charge Foundation, his charity.
Chauncey Billups was the inaugural winner of the award last season, when Battier finished second in the balloting.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The award is named for Jack Twyman and Maurice Stokes, linked by what happened in the final game of the 1957-58 regular season, when Stokes suffered a brain injury. Stokes was paralyzed, and Twyman supported him for the remainder of his life — even becoming his legal guardian and advocate.