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If any player in the NBA is untradeable, it is Tim Duncan. End of thread.
what would be it and which team would get TD?
I know many people like to say, trade TD from Spurs to Spurs.
I am looking for other answers if any!!
If any player in the NBA is untradeable, it is Tim Duncan. End of thread.
I'd rather lose with Duncan than win with anyone we could trade him for
You don't trade a player like Tim Duncan...even when he can no longer play, unless he just flat out refuses to retire well after the game has passed him by.
Duncan deserves to finish his career as a Spur. And I'll be honored if he does so.
We aren't going to get another like him for a long time...
It was an incredible stroke of luck that we had players the caliber of he and Robinson, in a single lifetime, much less playing alongside each other...the fact that we had Gervin before them...
Let's just say the Spurs are the luckiest Franchise since the day they entered the NBA.
I'd rather lose with Duncan than win with anyone we could trade him for
You don't trade a player like Tim Duncan...even when he can no longer play, unless he just flat out refuses to retire well after the game has passed him by.
Duncan deserves to finish his career as a Spur. And I'll be honored if he does so.
Also, I think Tim Duncan is the kind of guy that may retire early, rather than hang on past his time.
Like the other poster said TD is about as untradable as a player can be...
I would think about pulling the trigger if these trades were offered
Dwight Howard & Ariza
Chris Bosh & Andreas (the no.1 from last year)
Oden & ROY or Aldridge
Absolutely.
Also, I think Tim Duncan is the kind of guy that may retire early, rather than hang on past his time.
I don't see Duncan coming off the bench when he's past his prime.
He's a winner, he'll walk when he can no longer be a vital piece of those les.
And I wouldn't trade him for anyone in the league. Not for ten "best" in the league.
He's a Spur for life, his number in the rafters with his banners.
Also, I think Tim Duncan is the kind of guy that may retire early, rather than hang on past his time.
Exactly...and thing is...if Duncan says he can still play and the Spurs trade him? That's a mistake. He'll probably take the team we trade him to to a le if it's a halfway decent team. Duncan isn't the type to say he can play if he can't.
By the time Duncan becomes tradeable, we aren't going to get anyone capable of taking us to a le for him, all we'll be doing is trading franchise history and championship memories, for mediocrity.
I rather just finish out the Duncan era with Duncan and then suck bad enough to get a top lottery pick...and start it all over again.
And the other thing is...
Duncan is out of the Kareem school...
Not the Wilt school...like Drob and Shaq are.
Wilt shcool = 12=15 years with health.
Kareem school = 20 years without health.
He's going to be an effective player long after his physical ability has left him, he's that skilled.
To tell you the truth...Duncan's true athleticism left him after about his second or third year in the NBA.
I wouldn't trade Duncan for any two players in the league. He's grown into not only a devastating player, but also one of the best teammates and leaders in the history of the league. His leadership style is unconventional but it's greatly effective.
Bandwagoner.
I wanted Webber over Robinson in 01, and thank God it never happened. After seeing how amazing it was for Dave to retire a champion and spend his whole career in our uniform, there's no way I'd want it any other way with Tim, even if RC gets offered LeBron+Durant and a healthy Oden.
I agree that Duncan is untradeable as a basketball player and I think he's untradeable as an icon at this point as well.
Tim is certainly getting older, but there is still nobody in the NBA who can make the difference at both ends of the floor that Tim Duncan makes. No-body. As long as that's true, there's zero chance of getting equal value in a trade for him.
On top of that, as timvp noted, Duncan is singularly the most accountable and selfless superstar in the game -- he is the biggest supporter of each of his teammates; he even owns mistakes that aren't even his to help out and support his teammates.
At this moment, and for the foreseeable future, Tim Duncan IS the San Antonio Spurs.
There is not a "good enough" offer for TD, as quite a few posters have pointed out before me.... but... if you where to word the thread
"who would you want if TD flat out, under any conditions, refused to play for the Spurs next season who would you want?"
In that scenario I would have to say Oden.
I'll continue to count my blessings that TD is not a whiny like "those guys" that signed with the Celtics and that "other guy" that still plays for the Lakers.
QFTI'd rather lose with Duncan than win with anyone we could trade him for
You don't trade a player like Tim Duncan...even when he can no longer play, unless he just flat out refuses to retire well after the game has passed him by.
Duncan deserves to finish his career as a Spur. And I'll be honored if he does so.
We aren't going to get another like him for a long time...
It was an incredible stroke of luck that we had players the caliber of he and Robinson, in a single lifetime, much less playing alongside each other...the fact that we had Gervin before them...
Let's just say the Spurs are the luckiest Franchise since the day they entered the NBA.
The 90YO man with a microfractured knee? If I have to go untested with the "under the gun" scenario, I'd go with Dwight Howard. Of the three highly touted young posts(Howard, Amare, Oden) he's the only one with two intact knees.
No way Duncan is ever traded from the Spurs. He'd retire before playing for another team I think.
I'd say he'll play until he no longer thinks he's effective, and he and Pop will probably retire together. That will be the beginning of a new era for the Spurs (rebuilding), and a sad day for us all. Hopefully it won't happen until about 2012 or 2013 though, which would make him 36 or 37.
The great thing about TD is so much of his effectiveness comes from bball IQ - his D, passing, movement - and he's never relied on athleticism to be effective. Who knows, if he's lucky with injury, he might still be effective at 40! But that's unlikely.
Personally, I wouldn't trade him for Howard/Amare/Oden because none of them have proven to be all-around game changers like Tim. Do you see any of those guys developing the all-court dominance of Duncan? I don't. Amare will never be a great defender, he doesn't have the temperament for it, and Howard still struggles with his footwork, and he's also not a great passer. Oden is a ? Still, Duncan is a once in a generation player, just like Jordan, Bird and co.
If I'm RC and Tim asks me for a trade, I ask him where he wants to go, and make it happen. Otherwise, I don't trade Tim Duncan.
I wouldn't trade Timmy for anything. Ever. End of story.
Spurs Get:
Jesus H. Christ
Moses (Malone) the Hebrew
monetary compensation (mostly kickbacks from 'Passion of the Christ')
v.i.p. lifetime pass to Club Paradise
club option to veto opposing team's prayers
2009 first round pick
'Smiter' to be named later
2-for-1 coupons for the salad bar at the Garden of Eden
oh yeah, Eternal Life
Heaven gets:
Tim Duncan
still wouldn't do it.
My reasons for NOT trading TD:
1. He was rated best player in the NBA.
2.Why trade the saviour of San Antonio? We would never win without him.
3.He is permantely engraved in San Antonio. He is part of the team. If you take away that part of the team and try to get a different one, it would be like a human getting a trnsplant for a worse heart than he had before.
4.Duncan is one of those rare people who don't need 100 million dollar contracts. Unless you are giving him pennies, he just wants to win.
Think more deeply about it. What would we be gaining if we traded him? The only thing i would feel better about is if we got the whole all-star team for him.
DO NOT TRADE TIM DUNCAN!
The only player you'd really have to consider is LeBron. Other than that, nobody.
Duncan will never be traded.
Begin as a Spur & End as a Spurs.
Some of you might hate him, but those opinions are so likely they're practically FACTUAL. I've always held that outlook on Tim. I think he's kinda like Mike...when he's 40 he's got moves that will still make a young stud look like he's in middle school.
My old ass still gets inspired by this video before I go to the court:
Michael Jordan 2002: NBA Record 51 Points at Age 38
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