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06-25-2020, 01:06 PM
Suspended Indefinitely: Tim Duncan Feels Ageless
by Colin McGowan (https://basketball.realgm.com/news/analysis/author/217/Colin-McGowan)
Jun 24, 2020 9:50 PM
There are Tim Duncan stories, but they’re more like anti-stories, uncanny lame normal guy activities fashioned into myth because the normal guy is a Hall of Famer who has to custom order his cargo shorts. The Onion built a whole character out of Duncan’s dorky anti-celebrity, describing him as a helpful and conscientious Economist subscriber willing to do his teammates’ taxes (https://sports.theonion.com/tim-duncan-offers-to-do-taxes-for-entire-spurs-team-1819569755) or drive them (https://sports.theonion.com/tim-duncan-offers-to-drive-nba-players-to-polling-place-1819570319) to a polling place on election day. This is only slightly more boring than the truth. He collected swords—”I just like sharp things,” he once said to a real life reporter and not, as you might guess, in the imagination of a comedy writer who went to Macalester—and took Danny Green and Stephen Jackson out for paintball matches in the offseason. He plays D&D and has a Merlin tattoo. If somebody wrote this stuff about a character in a novel, you’d accuse them of being lazy and non-specific. But you can draw Tim Duncan using just primary colors.
https://twitter.com/RealGM/status/1276214575143120896
by Colin McGowan (https://basketball.realgm.com/news/analysis/author/217/Colin-McGowan)
Jun 24, 2020 9:50 PM
There are Tim Duncan stories, but they’re more like anti-stories, uncanny lame normal guy activities fashioned into myth because the normal guy is a Hall of Famer who has to custom order his cargo shorts. The Onion built a whole character out of Duncan’s dorky anti-celebrity, describing him as a helpful and conscientious Economist subscriber willing to do his teammates’ taxes (https://sports.theonion.com/tim-duncan-offers-to-do-taxes-for-entire-spurs-team-1819569755) or drive them (https://sports.theonion.com/tim-duncan-offers-to-drive-nba-players-to-polling-place-1819570319) to a polling place on election day. This is only slightly more boring than the truth. He collected swords—”I just like sharp things,” he once said to a real life reporter and not, as you might guess, in the imagination of a comedy writer who went to Macalester—and took Danny Green and Stephen Jackson out for paintball matches in the offseason. He plays D&D and has a Merlin tattoo. If somebody wrote this stuff about a character in a novel, you’d accuse them of being lazy and non-specific. But you can draw Tim Duncan using just primary colors.
https://twitter.com/RealGM/status/1276214575143120896