The Bill Russell/Tim Duncan One-on-One

[weebo]

great

[spursdotcom]

Part 5 - http://www.nba.com/spurs/multimedia/...uncan_pt5.html

[duncan228]

It gets better and better.

[Fernando TD21]

It gets better and better.

It does! I can't wait to see the others.

[urunobili]

The 4th one is my fav so far...

[stealthjbravo]

Thanks!

[spursdotcom]

Part 6 - http://www.nba.com/spurs/multimedia/...uncan_pt6.html

[duncan228]

Thanks!

[Blackjack]

[spursdotcom]

Part 7 - http://www.nba.com/spurs/multimedia/...uncan_pt7.html

[DxB]

"I wanna win one more and its got your name on it."

Thats in music to my ears... coz I know that in the end all the other players we got aint gonna do ... its Tim who's gonna get no. 5 or else it aint happening.

[Blackjack]

Awesome...

[raspsa]

Hopefully they splice all segments together.

[spursdotcom]

Part 8 - http://www.nba.com/spurs/multimedia/...uncan_pt8.html

[spursdotcom]

The finale - Part 9 - http://www.nba.com/spurs/multimedia/...uncan_pt9.html

[Fernando TD21]

The finale - Part 9 - http://www.nba.com/spurs/multimedia/...uncan_pt9.html

Thanks! Great b-day present.

[Summers]

That was really wonderful. I wish there was more of it.

[#2!]

Wow, what a phenomenal conversation. They lose each other, or talk over each others points (mostly Russell haha), but a connection seems to have been made. It came about during talk of family, and childhood as much as it did through discussions about leading their teams, and chasing perfection on the court.


Like Tim Duncan said, "Some of the similarities are eerie," such as the loss of their mothers at young age, and having the kind of fathers that saw their children to college based on a promise to their lost wives. Russell and Duncan played on broken courts, and both still know exactly how to get back to their respective spots.

The two legends found a counterpoint in one another's stories and recognized it as both human, and as purely basketball.