Battier JUST reaches 30,000 regular season minutes for his career:
http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/mia...est-begins-now
"The third objective was less serious: allowing Shane Battier to reach a career milestone of 30,000 regular-season minutes. Battier joked with Spoelstra at the morning shootaround that he needed to play a season-high 36 minutes in his final regular season game in order to reach 30,000 for his career.
Spoelstra laughed it off in the morning, but by the evening, he ran out of bodies at the end of the bench. James, Bosh, Rashard Lewis and Chris Andersen all got the night off and Michael Beasley turned his right ankle in the third quarter and had to leave the game.
At that point, Battier checked in with the scorer’s table to see how many minutes he needed until 30,000.
“Only six?” Battier laughed as he turned to walk onto the court. “I’ve come this far, can’t turn back now.”
Battier ended up playing 39 minutes -- three more than he needed -- and finished with a trio of 3-pointers.
“Once I sniffed it, it was like a dog to a T-bone,” Battier said. “I had to go get it.”
After the loss, Battier, who’s expected to retire this summer, marched into the locker room, fully-equipped with jokes.
“I came in the league averaging about 40 minutes a game,” Battier announced to his teammates, “And in my last game I played about 40 minutes.”