Former ESPN Analyst Admits Time At Network Was 'A Mistake'

Former ESPN Analyst Admits Time At Network Was 'A Mistake'

Where They Are Now- Former ESPN Personalities (1:16) For a lot of former athletes, broadcasting is a way to stay around the game they know and love once they can no longer play. But it's not for everybody, and it certainly wasn't for two-time NBA champ Shane Battier.In a sit-down interview with Pablo Torre, the ex-Duke star admitted that working as an analyst for ESPN was "a mistake" and that he was just "chasing relevance" after losing his iden…

Shane Battier calls his ESPN tenure a mistake

The end of Shane Battier’s NBA career was humiliating. When he was told, without being told, that the 2014 Miami Heat’s best chance at winning a championship was without him on the floor, he was bitter. Nothing was worse to Battier than being sat by Erik Spoelstra in crunch time, except maybe his short-lived ESPN tenure. “That was my identity,” the Duke legend told Pablo Torre. “It hurt me to my core. And that’s when I knew I was done. I was emb…