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Tim Duncan

Tim Duncan

Net Worth

$130,000,000

Born in (City)

St. Croix

Born in (Country)

United States of America

Date of Birth

25th December, 1976

Date of Death

-

Mother

Ione Duncan

Father

William Duncan

Children

  • Quill Duncan
  • Sydney Duncan
  • Draven Duncan

About

Timothy Theodore Duncan is a former American professional basketball player and coach. As his nickname, "the Big Fundamental" suggests, he is regarded as the greatest all-time power forward and one of the greatest players in the history of the NBA. Although, despite having a remarkable playing career of nineteen years with the San Antonio Spurs, basketball was not his first choice. As a youngster experiencing childhood in the American Virgin Islands, Duncan and his two sisters were exceptional swimmers. But, after his mother’s death and a hurricane destroying the only pool in town, his enthusiasm for swimming melted away rapidly. He then started concentrating on basketball when his brother-in-law showed the basketball essentials while playing one-on-one games with him. Thus, with the joining abilities of a passer, rebounder, shooter, scorer, dribbler, and protector, Tim Duncan became outstanding amongst other all-round parts in the NBA, a victor of NBA's most valuable player in 2002. However, regardless of the apparent multitude of awards persistently stacked upon him, to date, Duncan remains calm and composed. And religiously follows his mother's philosophy in life, "Great, better, best. Never let it rest until your great is better and your better is ideal."

Early Life

Timothy Theodore Duncan was born on April 25, 1976, on St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, an island in the eastern Caribbean Sea. He was the third of four kids destined to William and Ione Duncan. His dad, an artisan, worked an assortment of occupations, and his mother was a maternity specialist. During his childhood, Duncan was a skilled swimmer. He held various records like the Virgin Islands record in the 50 and 100-meter free-form occasions, positioned swimmer in the United States in the 400-meter free-form. He even wished to seek after swimming profession to the following Olympics. However, a Hurricane wrecking the main Olympic-sized pool on the island and his mom's demise from bosom malignancy only one day before his fourteenth birthday removed Duncan's longing to swim. After the death of his mother, Duncan's sister, Cheryl moved back to the island with her significant Ricky Lowry, who had played basketball at Capital University, a small school in Ohio. He was the first person to urge Duncan to seek basketball and even taught him the exercises that rendered him with ball-taking care of aptitudes and court mindfulness that set him apart from other huge men in the game. All of which marked the beginning of a spectacular career of Tim Duncan's becoming "NBA's most valuable player."

Road to Success

He played his first school game against the University of Alaska in Anchorage. Even though he didn't score during his first excursion, it didn't take long for Duncan to set himself on edge and set another Demon Deacon record for absolute single-season hindered shots. During his sophomore year, Duncan was named the National Defensive Player of the Year, First Team All-Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), and Third Team All-American. Expanding his hostile creation, Duncan kept on acquiring praises in successive years as Defensive Player of the Year and First-Team All-ACC, First Team All-American, and the ACC Player of the Year. Even though he would have likely been the leading pick in the 1995 NBA draft, the nineteen-year-old Duncan chose to leave behind the chance of a $3 million every year NBA agreement to stay in school for his lesser and senior years. Later on, he was chosen as the lead pick of the 1997 draft by the San Antonio Spurs. Despite the uncertainty that whether he will be enough to help the Spurs to bounce back, Duncan, by his exceptional performance, was named as NBA Rookie of the Year in 1998. And was additionally chosen to the First Team All-NBA and was the first youngster to play in the 1998 All-Star Game. However, Duncan's season finished on a harsh note, he got injured, and the Spurs ended up losing their season finisher arrangement to the Utah Jazz. When the game continued in January of 1999, Duncan and the Spurs made a comeback and beat the New York Knicks in five matches, dominated the NBA title. Duncan was named the Most Valuable Player of the finals. However, the 2001-2002 season ended up being the best of Duncan's vocation, as he was named the "2002 NBA Most Valuable Player". And, with the retirement of "The Admiral" David Robinson after the 2002-03 season, Duncan got in another influential position in the Spurs maturing group and henceforth had a glorious playing career with Spurs of power forward/center from 1997-2016.

Challenges

Having a rough start to life, losing his mother only at the age of fourteen, and eventually the appetite to be an aspiring swimmer. He would have been a lost cause if it weren't for his brother-in-law, Lowry, who motivated Duncan to pursue basketball professionally. Despite Duncan playing several games during his school and college, winning several titles, and even recognized several times as NBA's Most Valuable Player. There have been times when Duncan's ability as a player was doubted by few for whom his character stayed a puzzle. His repressed nature on the verge of detachedness was confounded as the absence of power. However, regardless of all this, Duncan's true fans always saw him as very committed, centered, and having fun while paying attention to winning and losing. Or, as Ed Gregory, the head of player staff for the Golden State Warriors, wrote in a Sports Magazine, "Most people have no clue about how overwhelming he is in each feature of the game, just because he doesn’t shout with each square, garbage talk with each point, or toss elbows with each bounce back."

Failures

Tim Duncan, the epitome of consistency during his nineteen years playing career with the San Antonio Spurs, always won at least fifty games every season, except a few when he was injured and locked out of the game. However, despite such an illustrious and successful course, Tim Duncan had his fair share of defeats along the way. For instance, right after the start of his career at Spurs in the season 1997-98, when Duncan helped the Spurs to bounce back, an injury struck him leading his team to lose terribly to Utah Jazz in the second round. However, after making a brief comeback in the next season and being named the most valuable player of the finals, Duncan was sidelined by another injury. He, at that point, turned into a free specialist, and the Spurs mixed to persuade their young star to remain in San Antonio. Having declined the solid offer made by Orlando Magic, Duncan decided to stay close to the Spurs and proved his mettle in the season 2001-02, the best of Duncan's vocation. Thus, regardless of a poor start to his game, Tim Duncan played a key factor in the mind-blowing turnaround for the Spurs. His great numbers in different measurable classifications have come about because of his ceaseless devotion to developing himself in all parts of his game and not letting his injuries and failures decide his fate.

Achievements

Five-time NBA champion|A two-time NBA Most Valuable Player|Three-time NBA Finals Most Valuable Player|Fifteen-time NBA All-Star|The only player to be selected to both the All-NBA and All-Defensive Teams for 13 consecutive seasons.

Quotes

  • Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best.
  • I'm surrounded by nothing but great people. I've been blessed with that, so really, I've got no choice but to be an all-around good person.
  • I enjoy jokes, smiling, and making people smile. I may be a little different, but that's OK, who wants to be normal anyway?