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    NEW YORK — Rick Barnes has spent his entire adult life recruiting teenagers to play college basketball. It often can be like working as a gold prospector. Or a stock broker. Or a storm chaser.

    It’s how Barnes, who’s now the University of Texas basketball coach, came to be in a cow pasture in the middle of paradise in summer 1992.

    He was coaching at Providence at the time, on the lookout for a big man he might be able to redshirt.

    The search led him to a middle-of-nowhere high school gym on the Virgin Island of St. Croix. There, Barnes became one of the first college coaches in the world to lay eyes on Tim Duncan, who tonight is making his 15th appearance in the NBA All-Star game.
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    Excellent article!!

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    Excellent article!!
    Ditto!

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    , I'm going to miss Tim when he is gone

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    Some have wondered why he didn’t walk away after winning the 2014 championship against Miami.
    “That would be letting others dictate my decision,” Duncan said. “I’ll decide when it’s time to go.”
    GOAT


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    I wonder I'd Duncan would still be around after he retires. Or if he will choose to reside in Virgin Islands, I hope not.
    He's psychology graduate there's still room for his services other than playing on the court.

    It will be one of the saddest moment for his fans(other than losing to LA Lakers for .04 or 2013 finals vs Miami), the moment he'll announce his retirement. But thankful for his contribution to the league & his leading the team to 5 les & his other accomplishments. We are proud to be Spurs fans because of him, as a role model to emulate, charities, and the Spurs organization as a whole.

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    Damned Skippy. I don't think there was a better way for him to put it. Amy couldn't make him quit, and neither could Lebron.

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    Oh man, the celticfan meltdown would have been even sweeter had Duncan played four years of college ball in their backyard.

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    I think he'll stay in San Antonio. When one has kids, you settle where the kids are used to (they have their friends, activities, etc). My kids are so Americanized - there's no way they'd go back to my native Jamaica - too slow/boring.

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    Not sure if this was posted but an "Old Man Riverwalk" tribute done a few days ago:




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    Some have wondered why he didn’t walk away after winning the 2014 championship against Miami.
    “That would be letting others dictate my decision,” Duncan said. “I’ll decide when it’s time to go.”
    WE NEED TO TELL HIM TO QUIT EVERY YEAR!!!

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    So happy and grateful watching Duncan in the first video..then, here comes the Joey Crawford ejection of the stoic Duncan having a seldom you see having good time on the bench....then bamm!!!!!!!...gone!!!!
    off to the locker room! Lol

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    The guy epitomizes Spurs philosophy, unselfish yet has a much bigger impact on team success than LeBron ever did.

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