Spending his entire career with the Spurs, Tim Duncan won five NBA championships in 19 seasons and was named MVP in 2001-02 and 2002-03 and was the Finals MVP in 1999, 2003 and 2005.
Tim Duncan and the Spurs have won five championships, all in different ways. Here's a look at those teams and how we got here.
Famed basketball player Tim Duncan was born on St. Croix, in the U.S. Virgin Islands, in 1976. Despite waiting until his freshman year of high school to play basketball, Duncan was recruited by Wake Forest, where he became one of the Demon Deacons' best players. In the 1997 NBA draft, the San Antonio Spurs selected Duncan with the team's first overall pick. He's gone on to lead the team to five championships. After 19 seasons, he announced his retirement in 2016.
When the news was delivered by way of a vanilla organizational statement, the San Antonio Spurs might as well have been announcing that Tim Duncan would be appearing at the Alamo to sign copies of his book, “Compared to Me, Coach Popovich is a Blabbermouth.”
Just kidding. In 19 N.B.A. seasons as the strong, silent and never-salacious type, Duncan did not write a book, run off at the mouth, or elaborate on much.
He played without seeking fanfare and retired on his wordless terms with no explanation posted on The Players’ Tribune, no tear-stained news conference and, most characteristically, no farewell tour. Read more at New York Times.