I, and a lot of other people, have written about former NBA player Shane Battier – but not because of his statistics.

He’s famous for being an extraordinary player whose worth does not show up in the stats.

His work has a lot of relevance to education, and here are my previous posts pointing out how:

How The NBA Finals Taught A Lesson About Not Being “Data-Driven”

The Best Resources On The Importance Of Knowing What You Don’t Know

This Is A Great Explanation Of One Of My Biggest Concerns About “School Reformers”

“let some of the players with lower batting averages go”

Now, The Athletic has written another article about him, and I’ll leave it to you to consider how the quote from it I highlighted in the above textbox can relate to education.

You can read it at ‘We’re all role players’: Advice on playing your part from the NBA’s ultimate glue guy.