Shane Battier: Technology is changing our game every single day. It helps me the most when preparing for an opponent. I can go on the Internet and I can download in real-time all of Kobe Bryant’s right-handed drives, and I can download all of LeBron James’ post moves when he’s on the left block. The way that you prepare for games in terms of scouting is so much more thorough with advances in technology. I read an 80-page scouting report of each team before we play, and it will tell me ‘does Kyle Korver like to shoot from the hash mark? Does he like to shoot from the corner?’ It gives me what percentages he is from each spot on the floor and it tailors my game plan to the numbers. That is something you couldn’t do even five years ago, so it’s an exciting time to be in the NBA in terms of technological advancement.

Shane Battier: I play videogames. I’m a big surfer on the net. I blog with my Chinese shoe company Peak at http://blog.sina.com.cn/battier/. And the internet provides information at your fingertips. Every night before I go to bed I check the scores on NBA.com. We [the players] are fans too, just like everybody else, and even though I don’t play fantasy basketball, I play fantasy football and fantasy baseball now and then, and so it’s about information. It is exciting to have all that information at your fingertips.

Shane Battier: I’m a big emailer. I have my blackberry that has become a part of me. When I forget it at home – you can ask my wife – I start to break out in a sweat. I can’t communicate with my friends, I can’t text my buddy Mike Dunleavy who plays for the Indiana Pacers, who I text almost every day. I text Mike Miller – who plays for the Memphis Grizzlies – every day. It is a good way to keep in touch with all your buddies when you’re on the road.

I’m a big internet junkie. I’m on the computer constantly. My wife is yelling at me to stay off the computer. I play video games now and then. And I’m a kind of “gadget junkie;” anything that’s new and fun I have to play with and get my hands on it. I actually write a tech review in Hoop Magazine. I’m the new Tech Editor, so with any new products out there I’m trying to get the pulse of it.

Shane Battier: I’m old school, so I like old school Nintendo, but of the current generation I’m a PlayStation 3® man myself. And I just got done with a game called Assassin’s Creed (Ubisoft™). I’m also a big football fan so I play college football games a lot. I play Madden (EA Sports™). I don’t really like to play the first-person shooter games because if you don’t play those games in a while, you come up against some 10-year old online and he’s dedicated his life to these games, and you get smoked. You can’t even play the game for five seconds so it’s no fun. So I gave up those games a long time ago since I don’t have the time to them like other kids do. So I like sports games, but I don’t play NBA games. I never feel that the basketball games, they never capture who I am (jokingly); they never capture the spirit of who I am as a player. I’m not just some pixel running around. I have character. I have a soul (smiling) and that’s what makes me a good basketball player and it doesn’t translate to video games.

Shane Battier: That’s a tough one. I would probably say my blackberry. To lose the ability to communicate with all my friends on a daily basis and stay in the loop would be tough. I don’t know how I lived without texting and instant messaging before I had it.