Dallas morning News- Listed Duncan on their 2nd Team for All decade

[mudyez]

KG on the spurs does not win what Duncan did at all. KG has never been in Tim's league other than maybe 1 or 2 years..

agreed, but does timmy get the same reconition, if he is stuck on a medicre team like KG was? maybe he gets one ship, but so may KG in SA. then we MIGHT talk about #2A and #2B in terms of best PF of all time, with Malone beeing #1 without even winning a ship.

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Well I don't really think Steve Nash is a point guard, so I'm just going to disregard the fact that he was listed as a point guard all those years...

[galvatron3000]

There aren't many players during Jordan's career that you could say were the best player in the league NOT named Jordan. Barkley's maybe the only one. It took really clutch shots by Mario Elie and John Paxson to keep him from getting a ring. Barkley's teams never choked in the clutch, he never shied from a big moment or failed to deliver for his team, and he couldn't have been much better than he was in that Finals series against the Bulls.

Brother I agree wholeheartedly I just was agreeing with his point of not winning a ring. Dirk is a classic choker which is why Miami has a ring there's no one who saw that series that could possibly believe otherwise unless they are a Dallas or Dirk fan

[dbreiden83080]

Brother I agree wholeheartedly I just was agreeing with his point of not winning a ring. Dirk is a classic choker which is why Miami has a ring there's no one who saw that series that could possibly believe otherwise unless they are a Dallas or Dirk fan

For me Dirk lost all legendary status the next year. The playoff loss to the Warriors was embarassing for that 1 seeded Dallas team, compounded with Dirk stinking out the joint in the elimination game. 2-13 for 8 pts in 38 min he was in that game. As they were getting blown out, Dirk had this look on his face like "Please please don't throw me the ball"

[PublicOption]

when you are jealous just say so....don't waste your time with some BULL article.

[FromWayDowntown]

Writing only tends to encourage this sort of thing, but I thought this warranted a response. Here's mine:

I'll acknowledge my bias as a Spurs fan, and I'll admit to the silliness of your panel's All-Decade team, but the fact that Tim Duncan would only rate Second Team treatment, even in a silly gimmick is among the more ridiculous things I've ever read in any sports page anywhere. The justification for it is about as silly as the result; Tim Duncan may appear to be a Center at this point in time, but for the majority of this decade, he did play power forward in San Antonio -- unless you're telling me that David Robinson, Rasho Nesterovic, and Nazr Mohammed are all actually power forwards. But the choice to make Tim Duncan a second-team player tells me that there's no need to read what such journalists think about the NBA -- it's obviously only a regurgitation of the garbage I see on ESPN; tremendous regard for sizzle, but little appreciation for steak.

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There aren't many players during Jordan's career that you could say were the best player in the league NOT named Jordan. Barkley's maybe the only one. It took really clutch shots by Mario Elie and John Paxson to keep him from getting a ring. Barkley's teams never choked in the clutch, he never shied from a big moment or failed to deliver for his team, and he couldn't have been much better than he was in that Finals series against the Bulls.

Upon re-reading this quote, I don't think I made my point clear enough: There were times during Barkley's career that he was the best player in the NBA, bar none, despite Michael Jordan being in the league.

[Sean Cagney]

Hahaha that's funny. They didn't mention one thing about championships or MVPs, just some bull about where he is positioned.

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I stopped reading right there, then I knew what it was and knew he was just hating on Tim. He has to put him up there somewhere although he did not want to put him in his real position because it knocks DIRK off his list (And he is a Dallas writer). Duncan 1 and Garnett 2 for the decade, throw Dirk off that list homer writer and GET REAL.

[Josepatches_]

agreed, but does timmy get the same reconition, if he is stuck on a medicre team like KG was? maybe he gets one ship, but so may KG in SA. then we MIGHT talk about #2A and #2B in terms of best PF of all time, with Malone beeing #1 without even winning a ship.

Are you trying to say TD was so great because he was selected by the Spurs?

Spurs won 4 tles because TD was here. The team was built around him.

KG was far away to be as dominant as TD was.With KG here instead of TD now we would have the same tles we had in 1997.

It seems that TD had a lot of talent around him.That's funny.

Maybe it's only coincidence we are worse every year since TD is going down.Maybe his teammates are losing his talent at the same time.

[jimo2305]

man.. DALLAS