Tim Duncan Retires. [Archive] - Page 6

bdictjames

12-19-2016, 05:30 AM

Thanks Timmy.

Words cannot show how much you meant to the team, to the fans. You were the rock that held this team, and you as well as the entire staff made sure that the team had as seamless of a transition, when, as you say "the wheels fall off."

So many lessons, so many memories. What a great individual and role model. To the greatest PF of all-time, to probably the greatest teammate of all-time, thank you.

TampaDude

12-19-2016, 06:30 AM

GOAT.

'nuff said...

JP le Requin

12-19-2016, 07:03 AM

Thanks Timmy for 20 years of GREATNESS!
WE MISS YOU!

GO SPURS GO

lefty

12-19-2016, 09:51 AM

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Brazil

12-19-2016, 10:45 AM

Superstar ++

rude1_79

12-19-2016, 10:46 AM

i wish they would have panned on any of the current players there. my two cents. but awesome ceremony regardless. thanks TD.

random21

12-19-2016, 10:46 AM

GOAT

DJR210

12-19-2016, 12:06 PM

Any word if the baby is Tim's?

lefty

12-19-2016, 12:49 PM

Any word if the baby is Tim's?
http://i.perezhilton.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/tony-parker-wife-pregnant__oPt.jpg

wildbill2u

12-19-2016, 12:50 PM

For some reason I can't the videos to play. The VLC icon comes up and it shows a 'play' arrow at the bottom, but nothing happens. Can someone tell me how to play these videos, please?

bklynspursfan

12-19-2016, 12:52 PM

i wish they would have panned on any of the current players there. my two cents. but awesome ceremony regardless. thanks TD.

Yea I was hoping for the same. But hopefully there's other footage that we'll see at some point

Perry Mason

12-19-2016, 01:16 PM

I thought this was awesome. NBA.com also has the great Pop, Manu and Tony videos where they spoke.

http://www.nba.com/video/2016/12/18/0021600412-nop-sas-tribute-video

quentin_compson

12-19-2016, 02:05 PM

A special ceremony for a special player and person. It was pretty awesome, I thought.

superbigtime

12-19-2016, 03:04 PM

It was awesome. I loved it all. Respect to everyone's hero.

spurraider21

12-19-2016, 04:02 PM

:lmao

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spursistan

12-19-2016, 04:43 PM

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C0A82zVUkAAzjts.jpg:large

spursistan

12-19-2016, 04:44 PM

^ truly amazing picture !

Amuseddaysleeper

12-19-2016, 04:47 PM

My feed cut out right as TD was thanking everybody, hopefully I can watch it all online.

that's badass you have a rare, green vinyl for Double Nickels, easily one of my favorite albums. I have my old bass signed by Watt, but no Minutemen vinyl.

Oh man I'm jealous, Watt is an all time legend :tu

tbdog

12-19-2016, 05:24 PM

I had to go to work just after the Parker speech. Is the whole ceremony still available on league pass on the pelicans' game?

UZER

12-19-2016, 05:36 PM

i wish they would have panned on any of the current players there. my two cents. but awesome ceremony regardless. thanks TD.

I was there. I was watching Aldridge who was half-heartedly clapping, or wholeheartedly clapping, who the fuck knows with that guy. Anyhoo, I just kept hoping some of what was said last night would light a fire under him. Probably not though.

lefty

12-19-2016, 06:00 PM

I had to go to work just after the Parker speech. Is the whole ceremony still available on league pass on the pelicans' game?

Was his speech longer than the rest of the team?

sasaint

12-19-2016, 06:14 PM

Was his speech longer than the rest of the team?

One of the high points, I thought. :tu

Ice009

12-19-2016, 10:58 PM

What other players came out to watch?

TXstbobcat

12-19-2016, 11:11 PM

What other players came out to watch?

they showed Will Perdue, Malik Rose, and Antonio Daniels at the game.

lefty

12-19-2016, 11:38 PM

One of the high points, I thought. :tu

Speak speak speak speak

tbdog

12-20-2016, 06:34 AM

Man that was touching. Timmy is the best of us.

Ice009

12-20-2016, 08:10 AM

they showed Will Perdue, Malik Rose, and Antonio Daniels at the game.

I saw those guys, but they're friends of Tim's so I expected them there if they didn't have other obligations that night.

I was more asking if any of the current Spurs players watched or anyone from the Pelicans.

silverblackfan

12-20-2016, 08:33 AM

The ceremony was wonderful to watch and done with very well. A few speeches from those who knew him best and then get Tim to talk longer than 1 minute.
Amazing!
Damn onions.

TXstbobcat

12-20-2016, 09:51 AM

I saw those guys, but they're friends of Tim's so I expected them there if they didn't have other obligations that night.

I was more asking if any of the current Spurs players watched or anyone from the Pelicans.

my gal was at the game with me and she mentioned to me that she saw that the rest of the Spurs team was on the Spurs bench during the retirement ceremony.

Ice009

12-20-2016, 09:57 AM

my gal was at the game with me and she mentioned to me that she saw that the rest of the Spurs team was on the Spurs bench during the retirement ceremony.

Cool. That's great to hear. I was hoping that most of the team was there watching live and soaked it in. I hope it brings them together and pushes them to start performing at a higher level.

I. Hustle

12-20-2016, 10:37 AM

Who was the couple wearing all that gaudy gold crap by the visitor's bench?

TXstbobcat

12-20-2016, 12:51 PM

I just got an email that there are 200 of the Tim Duncan commemorative T-shirts that they gave to the fans at the jersey retirement game left that they are selling in Austin that come with a ticket to the Austin Spurs game this Friday.

LakerHater

12-20-2016, 01:28 PM

http://teefuny.com/tim-duncan?=hanes-5250&c=White&p=FRONT

SAGirl

12-29-2016, 11:01 AM

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Brazil

04-15-2017, 09:54 PM

Feels weird tbh...

TDomination

04-15-2017, 10:07 PM

Truly does.

Ron Swanson

04-15-2017, 10:08 PM

Yeah it does.

Silver&Black

04-15-2017, 10:10 PM

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<---- Thank You TD

Brazil

04-15-2017, 10:25 PM

:depressed ...

SAGirl

05-02-2017, 07:27 PM

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DarrinS

05-02-2017, 07:29 PM

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What a great person Tim is. Pop wouldn't be shit without 21.

SupremeGuy

05-02-2017, 07:44 PM

859512981947912192Tim still trying to save pop's commie ass.

Ice009

05-02-2017, 10:33 PM

Man, great to see TD. I didn't want him to retire at all. He's still better than 90% of the centers in the league. It just sucks that his good knee packed it in last season. Hopefully Tim can get these guys fired up and playing with full on intensity game 2 onward. Gotta win game 2 and go from there.

ViceCity86

05-02-2017, 10:39 PM

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Duncan still wearing the brace?

eDizzle20

05-02-2017, 10:40 PM

I'm still holding out hope that at some point he'll be an assistant on the staff. He's widely respected by everyone in the NBA and is the true definition of a teammate.

spursistan

05-19-2017, 04:55 PM

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Miss Timmy :cry..

Sigz

02-28-2018, 08:21 PM

I miss Timmy.

Sigz

02-28-2018, 08:23 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4n-Gb0x3jU

Ed Helicopter Jones

02-28-2018, 08:25 PM

It still hurts....

sasaint

02-28-2018, 08:29 PM

I miss Timmy.

Looking more and more like the end of an era not just for the Spurs, but the entire NBA. Mount Tim-more.

Down Under

02-28-2018, 08:35 PM

He could honestly still be playing if his other knee didn't blow out as well.

daslicer

02-28-2018, 08:44 PM

Looking more and more like the end of an era not just for the Spurs, but the entire NBA. Mount Tim-more.

A friend of mine whose a knicks fan sent me this clip a day after Duncan retired. He told me to substitute Duncan for Batman and NBA for World in the clip to see how he felt about Duncan retiring. It definitely resonated with me what a loss of Duncan was for the league after I watched the clip.
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SAGirl

03-01-2018, 02:31 AM

He could honestly still be playing if his other knee didn't blow out as well.
True. Since he retired I have missed and appreciated him more than ever and I only got to see him in his twilight. Some say the Spurs real championship possibilities went out the door with him and I am starting to believe it. I have gotten used to Lamarcus and Pau (though Pau specially that first season was really hard to come to terms with since Timmy on defense and rim protection was special...). Anyways I have missed him.

Down Under

03-01-2018, 06:58 AM

Greatest & most positive leader of all time tbh. A real encouraging leader who supported everyone, every player loved playing with him & proved you don't have to berate your teammates to be one of the greatest & most competitive players ever

Thomas82

03-01-2018, 08:36 AM

True. Since he retired I have missed and appreciated him more than ever and I only got to see him in his twilight. Some say the Spurs real championship possibilities went out the door with him and I am starting to believe it. I have gotten used to Lamarcus and Pau (though Pau specially that first season was really hard to come to terms with since Timmy on defense and rim protection was special...). Anyways I have missed him.

I'll do what I can to help fill in the gaps for you since I watched his entire college and NBA careers from start to finish.

TheGreatYacht

03-01-2018, 10:03 AM

Greatest head coach and front office of all time. So many people would be homeless drunks in Guadalupe street spewing their liberal agenda had this GOAT not fallen in their laps....

Brazil

04-17-2018, 01:36 PM

We could use some Tim Duncan right about now tbh... remember the good ol times where we had a true franchise player to root for ?

04-17-2018, 01:36 PM

I miss the old days tbh

Thomas82

04-17-2018, 05:02 PM

I miss the old days tbh

That makes 2 of us!!

Brazil

04-17-2018, 05:11 PM

I miss the old days tbh

That makes 2 of us!!

make it 3

Thomas82

04-17-2018, 05:13 PM

make it 3

Tim Duncan was a basketball unicorn.

tbdog

07-01-2018, 07:58 PM

https://twitter.com/johndelizondo/status/1013137684083150848?s=20

vander

07-01-2018, 09:22 PM

TD retiring too early still makes me angrier than anything Kawhi and his uncle are doing.

KimmyGib

07-01-2018, 11:49 PM

Just thinking back, Timmy deserved that 2014 FMVP, imo. Leonard had a couple of great games, but he also had a couple of stinkers in that series. Duncan was a rock.

Arcadian

07-01-2018, 11:56 PM

Just thinking back, Timmy deserved that 2014 FMVP, imo. Leonard had a couple of great games, but he also had a couple of stinkers in that series. Duncan was a rock.

That would've been awesome. He would've been the only player ever to win FMVP 15 years apart.

He should've won it in 2013, too, if his coach and teammates hadn't let him down.

Ice009

07-01-2018, 11:57 PM

Just thinking back, Timmy deserved that 2014 FMVP, imo. Leonard had a couple of great games, but he also had a couple of stinkers in that series. Duncan was a rock.

Just like in 2013 (Spurs MVP), 2007 (MVP of the entire Playoffs), 2006 (MVP of the playoffs) and 2014 (Spurs MVP), TD was the Spurs' best overall player throughout the entire 2014 playoffs. Kawhi may not have even been the second best player throughout the 2014 playoffs. I'd say Manu may have just edged him out for that too. Kawhi did have a great finals, though. Anyway, I still think finals MVP is stupid. It should be for the whole playoffs.

Just to reply to the post above, Tim was a lock for 2013 finals MVP had his teammates not let him down while he had to sit there and watch for those finals 27 seconds.

cutewizard

07-02-2018, 12:08 AM

Perhaps Duncan should return for one more year

Show these youngsters the Way

Spur|n|Austin

07-02-2018, 12:22 AM

He could still lace em up and go.

Ice009

07-02-2018, 12:55 AM

Hmm, I'm starting to think if the Spurs were to keep Kawhi and bring back Tim, Tim might be the only one that can repair the relationship on a day by day basis.

daslicer

07-02-2018, 12:57 AM

Hmm, I'm starting to think if the Spurs were to keep Kawhi and bring back Tim, Tim might be the only one that can repair the relationship on a day by day basis.

Dude don't be crazy. I love Tim he was my childhood idol going back to when he played at WF but not even Tim could fix this crap. Kawhi has been completely mind fucked by his uncle.

Ice009

07-02-2018, 01:02 AM

Dude don't be crazy. I love Tim he was my childhood idol going back to when he played at WF but not even Tim could fix this crap. Kawhi has been completely mind fucked by his uncle.

Yeah, you're probably right. I will tell you, though, I wouldn't mind Tim back. Not to play big minutes or anything, but to bring some leadership and stability back to the club that is sorely lacking in those areas right now. It'd be great having him on the bench to help all the young guys out and steer them in the right direction. If he could still play, or if he's knee's gotten better, then that would be a bonus. I'm pretty sure he's still been working out, probably MMA training mostly, so not sure if that would help on the basketball court.

daslicer

07-02-2018, 01:11 AM

Yeah, you're probably right. I will tell you, though, I wouldn't mind Tim back. Not to play big minutes or anything, but to bring some leadership and stability back to the club that is sorely lacking in those areas right now. It'd be great having him on the bench to help all the young guys out and steer them in the right direction. If he could still play, or if he's knee's gotten better, then that would be a bonus. I'm pretty sure he's still been working out, probably MMA training mostly, so not sure if that would help on the basketball court.

It's tough to let go but there is nothing Tim can do to help the Spurs out other than just supporting them which he does.

Ice009

07-02-2018, 01:18 AM

Yeah, either way, I'd like him around the team more.

By the way DA, have you seen Sean Cagney around? I went to PM him the other day, but I haven't seen him around for a while, says he hasn't logged on for about a year. Any idea what happened to him?

Mugen

07-02-2018, 01:23 AM

Hmm, I'm starting to think if the Spurs were to keep Kawhi and bring back Tim, Tim might be the only one that can repair the relationship on a day by day basis.

Tim has 3 kids now, he doesn't need to come back and raise a 4th :lol

daslicer

07-02-2018, 01:25 AM

TrainOfThought5

07-02-2018, 01:32 AM

Tim has 3 kids now, he doesn't need to come back and raise a 4th :lol

Fucking this.

Ice009

07-02-2018, 01:43 AM

I haven't heard from him in a few years.

I did see him around last year, but haven't seen him log on since. I hope he's alright. He's a similar age, and I've known him for about 15 years going back to the other message board. I was going to drop him a message to see how he's going, but looks like he hasn't been active for a while.

tbdog

03-26-2023, 08:38 AM

https://i.imgur.com/po9DJiN.png

Ice009

03-26-2023, 08:49 AM

Dex

03-26-2023, 09:09 AM

Man, this thread sucks :(. I wish one never had to be made. Still as legendary as ever to me, but it seems like a lot of people have already forgotten about him. I've never enjoyed the NBA as much since TD retired and to a slightly lesser extent Manu. Two legends that gave it their all.

All good things can't last forever.

As a native San Antonian and lifelong Spurs fan, I feel blessed to have been able to witness Timmy's career from start to finish (along with everybody else)

There was joy, there was heartbreak....but we still got to experience once of the best runs of success that ANY sports fan has ever enjoyed.

Imagine being a Browns or Lions fan where your team has been around for like 1000 years and still hasn't won a single Super Bowl.

Don't be sad that it's over, but be happy that it happened. On to a new chapter now....

Harry Callahan

03-26-2023, 09:34 PM

I would have been happy with one NBA title in my lifetime. Never thought they would get one circa 1995. I'm glad my hometown team did it better, for longer, than almost everyone with the five titles.

Better days lie ahead, but it will take time.

BatManu20

03-26-2023, 09:34 PM

Timmy getting bitched-slapped at some UFC event :lol

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Harry Callahan

03-26-2023, 09:36 PM

Timmy getting bitched-slapped at some UFC event :lol

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Big Dave is in the background too!

MultiTroll

03-27-2023, 12:08 AM

The day the music died.

Thanks Tim.
Best player of his era. Best teams of the era.
All of it legit.

R. DeMurre

03-27-2023, 10:46 AM

Extra Stout

03-28-2023, 08:06 AM

The topic that rarely gets talked about is how Timmy his entire career went against Laker teams whose payrolls were higher those that of the Spurs-- literally every year except one (Duncan's last), the Lakers outspent-- and often extensively-- San Antonio. Timmy built his legacy with one of the most frugal teams of the era. If the Spurs had the financial flexibility to add just one quality role player in each of those years at a salary that leveled them with the Lakers, Duncan almost certainly would've finished with 6 or 7 rings.
Nah. They lost twice before the Big 3 were fully assembled. Those teams were in transition away from the core of the late ‘90s.
They had plenty of quality role players in ‘04 and ‘08. The ‘04 team just crapped the bed, especially Turkoglu, plus 0.4 didn’t help. Even Phil Jackson said he’s not sure how the Lakers won that series. The ‘08 team was past its peak, while the Lakers had added prime Pau Gasol for peanuts.

baseline bum

03-28-2023, 08:55 AM

Nah. They lost twice before the Big 3 were fully assembled. Those teams were in transition away from the core of the late ‘90s.
They had plenty of quality role players in ‘04 and ‘08. The ‘04 team just crapped the bed, especially Turkoglu, plus 0.4 didn’t help. Even Phil Jackson said he’s not sure how the Lakers won that series. The ‘08 team was past its peak, while the Lakers had added prime Pau Gasol for peanuts.

Thought that was Tex Winter who said that. God Turkoglu was horrible that series. Games 3-6 the Lakers guarded him the way teams guard Westbrook at the three point line. I remember in Games 3 and 4 Turkoglu would get wide open corner threes with no Laker within ten feet of him and he'd brick them.

Chomag

03-28-2023, 04:50 PM

I have never been so mad at the team as a fan then I was when they lost to the mavs series.

I swore to myself that I was done with the Spurs but nah, thankfully I was just angry lol

Thomas82

03-28-2023, 06:52 PM

I have never been so mad at the team as a fan then I was when they lost to the mavs series.

I swore to myself that I was done with the Spurs but nah, thankfully I was just angry lol

I really thought we would come all the way back and win that Mavs series then go on to repeat.

R. DeMurre

03-28-2023, 11:41 PM

Nah. They lost twice before the Big 3 were fully assembled. Those teams were in transition away from the core of the late ‘90s.
They had plenty of quality role players in ‘04 and ‘08. The ‘04 team just crapped the bed, especially Turkoglu, plus 0.4 didn’t help. Even Phil Jackson said he’s not sure how the Lakers won that series. The ‘08 team was past its peak, while the Lakers had added prime Pau Gasol for peanuts.

In 2004, the Lakers' payroll was $64.1mil compared to the Spurs' $46.4mil. Between '04 and '14, the Lakers outspent the Spurs by more than $150mil, with a higher payroll than the Spurs every season.

https://hoopshype.com/salaries/2013-2014/

daslicer

03-29-2023, 12:37 AM

In 2004, the Lakers' payroll was $64.1mil compared to the Spurs' $46.4mil. Between '04 and '14, the Lakers outspent the Spurs by more than $150mil, with a higher payroll than the Spurs every season.

https://hoopshype.com/salaries/2013-2014/

Spurs were pretty frugal, but I do feel if they had kept Jax after '03 they would have beaten the lakers in 5 in '04. The problem is that it would have been short lived since Jax is a ticking time bomb and would have eventually destroyed the team chemistry. Also, they would probably ended up losing Manu since they didn't have Bird rights on him and wouldn't have had enough cap space to re-sign him.

Ed Helicopter Jones

04-03-2023, 12:59 PM

It still hurts....

TDomination

04-03-2023, 02:45 PM

I have never been so mad at the team as a fan then I was when they lost to the mavs series.

I swore to myself that I was done with the Spurs but nah, thankfully I was just angry lol

yeah winning one the next year definitely helped.
but man that was a difficult series to handle against the Mavs. i thought after that Manu 3, the championship was ours.