Timmy the Sidekick?
Did someone say 2004?
pushed in by this guy:
pushed in by this guy
Regardless of the outcome that's a sweet picture
RJ bending over for Tim, the preview
Barbarians returned
Could they have caught Dwight in a more fitting pose?
One was in the WCF.
The other is hocking ugly ass watches and cheap wine.
Take your pick.
damn, even as a Spurs fan, I have to admit that Laker fans in this thread destroyed the OP, tbh..
Just as a good as a pic tbh..
That's the game I dread," Duncan said. "That's the game I dread."
He said it twice because the idea bugs him that much. Duncan said Monday, somewhat seriously, that he will tell Team USA coaches Larry Brown and Gregg Popovich that he's injured and can't play that day. He never expected that he would have to play against his home country, because the Virgin Islands didn't field a senior men's national team back in 1994 when he represented the United States for the first time.
"I hoped that it would never happen," he said.
That'd be a great honor," Duncan said, "to get a Virgin Islands team into the Olympics."
Duncan, mind you, wants a gold medal, and he doesn't deny that he chose to play for the United States -- instead of waiting for the Virgin Islands to assemble a representative squad -- because it gave him "a better opportunity to win the gold."
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Duncan won't play for U.S. at worlds, '08 Games
- Associated Press
PHOENIX -- Tim Duncan has officially notified USA Basketball that he will not be a part of the U.S. team that will compete at this year's world championships and the 2008 Olympics.
Jerry Colangelo, managing director of USA Basketball, said Saturday that Duncan's agent, Lon Babby, had called with the news earlier this week.
After the Spurs' 91-86 loss to the Suns on Saturday night, Duncan confirmed his feelings on playing for the U.S. team.
"I have no interest in that," he said.
Colangelo said has met with 15 to 18 players, and Duncan was the first to say he would not take part.
Duncan was part of the U.S. team that won the bronze medal at the 2004 Olympics.
By Mike Wise
Sunday, August 29, 2004; Page E12
ATHENS -- Tim Duncan wore a haggard look as he emerged from a locker room of bronze medalists. Hardly an emotional guy, he mumbled that his international basketball career is "95 percent" over and that, oh yeah, "FIBA [stinks]."
Duncan came here because he believed in the ideal of representing his country in basketball. And he must have figured if he was going to head overseas, risk security concerns and his professional reputation as arguably the best player in the game, players such as Tracy McGrady and Mike Bibby would surely follow.
Instead, he was joined by a cut-and-paste team that had little practice time together and ended up fouling out twice in eight games, after fouling out approximately two times in eight years. He battled the ticky-tack calls of international referees. He endured jeers and whistles from people who treat American basketball players like Boston treats the Yankees. Criticized back home and castigated abroad, Duncan walked out of that locker room Saturday night at Olympic Indoor Hall and figured, "Enough already. This just isn't worth it."
So he wins a bronze and then he and Pop become so salty they try to blame it on Shaq and Kobe.....ing pathetic
The league's premier power forward honored his two-year commitment when lesser players did not. But in the international game, Duncan never got the star treatment that every franchise player in the NBA receives. He may as well have been Angola's sixth man.
"How can you make sense of the officiating," said U.S. assistant Gregg Popovich, Duncan's coach in San Antonio. "If Tim Duncan knew this is how the games were going to be called, he would have thought seriously about not coming."
Duncan actually took pride in the bronze medal, happy to earn some reward for sacrificing two summers to the NBA's global marketing machine. While Kobe Bryant consulted his lawyers and Shaquille O'Neal was trying to reach a truce with his appe e, Tim Duncan of the U.S. Virgin Islands wanted to wear USA across his chest.
Talk about a sore ing loser....and they say this guy is stand up....yeah right..he and Pop never took responsibility for this obviously..instead they blamed it on anyone and everything else...all trolling aside .it is quite pathetic
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2004Aug28.htmlRegardless, rules changes won't change what needs to be fixed back home. And nothing, it seems, can get Duncan to buy into playing for the United States again. He was asked if his own misgivings about playing internationally would hurt the recruitment of other marquee players.
"I hope not," Duncan said. "I'll try not to share my experiences with anyone."
Duncan performed fine in the Olympics. Best overall stats on the team and consistent with what USA big men typically average in FIBA compe ion. I don't see how Lakerfan uses this as an argument of anything, especially considering Kobe was the 3rd or 4th best player on the team in '08 and was irrelevant in 2012.
Some no name Argie who subbed in for an injured Manu held Kirbs to 35% shooting and dropped 12 points in his grill in 19 mintues
In addition to Austin Croshere, we can now add "P. Quinteros" to the list of players who've outplayed Kirby in big games/series.
Note: Quinteros measures 6'2"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paolo_Quinteros
Last edited by midnightpulp; 05-29-2015 at 06:20 AM. Reason: Misspelled Quinteros "Quinones," that's how irrelevant the player who busted up Kobe was :lmao
So losers in this thread include splits, Kobe, and any nba player planing with a corrupt foreign organisation for free.
No Kobe no gold
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