Tim Duncan retires and the NBA loses an all-time great unlike any other
Tim Duncan won his first NBA championship and first NBA Finals MVP award when Bill Clinton was still president. Four more titles would follow, along with two more Finals MVPs and two NBA MVP awards, to boot.*
Duncan accomplished all those accolades after playing four years of college basketball at a time when the best NBA prospects began bolting to the league as soon as possible, sometimes skipping college altogether.*
Rarer still, Duncan's sure-fire first-ballot Hall of Fame career came with just one team, the San Antonio Spurs, at a time when NBA stars regularly switched jerseys in their primes.* Read more...