Shane Battier is now on twitter

ShaneBattier Shane Battier
I've received so many tweets from my people in HTown. Just want to say thanks for the love and support! A great city w/ great people!

 

TWill should have asked Shane to write his tweets for him.

 

shane,pls bring back OJ_MAYO to us

 

Shane, please sabotage Memphis' playoff effort and come back to Houston!

 

Somebody replied with the following:

What do you think? What Battier a great Rocket and even better person?

 

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