That all stopped when Hugo, a Category 4 storm, hit St. Having learned to swim at an early age like most kids in the Virgin Islands, Duncan loved to swim competitively, and by 13, he had clocked some of the fastest times in the United States in the 400-meter freestyle. Croix, Virgin Islands in 1989, erasing his dreams of becoming an Olympic swimmer because it destroyed all the local pools, eventually pushing him to the basketball courts. Hurricane Hugo swept through Duncan’s hometown of St. That’s how Duncan became the only player to start for an NBA championship team in three separate decades.
1 pick of the 1997 NBA Draft played for 19 years, making 19 consecutive playoff appearances in which he walked away with five titles and three NBA Finals MVP awards, not to mention two regular-season NBA MVP awards. It’s true, Duncan played one of the most fundamentally sound games of his era, but the stoic big man routinely flexed a penchant for pulling off the amazing. There’s the power forward catching errant shots off the rim with one hand, and switching hands midair for the putback jam, or Duncan hauling in the seemingly impossible alley-oop on the inbounds play from Sean Elliot. There’s Duncan snagging a rebound, dribbling coast-to-coast and breaking down LeBron James with the crossover to get to the rack. There’s the off-balance shot over Shaq, the off-the-glass alley-oop to himself, and the monstrous one-handed jam over Ben Wallace - none of the plays necessarily “fundamental” by definition - but fundamentally great, nonetheless. I'm not a Hall of Fame guy."Īnd the Hall of Fame career in San Antonio will continue for a few more years.Shaquille O’Neal’s nickname for Tim Duncan, “The Big Fundamental,” suggests boring and uninspiring, belying the beauty of the game orchestrated by arguably the best power forward to ever lace up a pair of sneakers. I've never felt like I really belonged, to be honest with you," Popovich said earlier this year. "In all honesty, I always felt the Hall of Fame is like for Red Holzman, Red Auerbach and Larry Bird and Magic Johnson. Duncan and Ginobili had to go in first, and Popovich is part of a class that also includes two other people close to him - former Spurs assistant Becky Hammon and Parker. The longstanding belief was that Popovich wanted certain people in the Hall before he would allow himself to be under consideration. "He's amazing," said Golden State coach Steve Kerr, who played for Popovich and assisted him with the national team. Popovich, along with all the wins and the five titles, also won an Olympic gold medal at the Tokyo Games that were played in 2021. "He's not intimidating yet, but I'm sure he's going to get intimidating when I see him in real life," Wembanyama said after the draft. And he's about to become the star of the latest - and perhaps final - phase of Popovich's career. He's coming to the NBA with eyes on becoming a superstar, an icon, a champion. The losing ends now, if Wembanyama has anything to say about it. Those struggles, along with his age, created speculation that Popovich might opt to retire.
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