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The GOAT needs to go out on top a la The Admiral.
I am now both old and gray and am looking forward to one final run with the guys who have been like members of my family for the last decade plus. Can't wait.
The GOAT needs to go out on top a la The Admiral.
tell your grandkids that you were grateful for watching #21 Tim Duncan.
My forever idol TD 21 the Legend !!!
That inbounds pass....
Bump for the goat. Enjoy the next 48, folks. Just in case.
We can tell our grandkids about how him and the Spurs were on the brink of elimination in the second round in 2016 and won games 6 and 7 against Durant, Westbrook, and the Thunder after being declared dead in the water.
Yup, just in case
and now it's over.
This thread made it 7 years..
1. Jordan
2. Duncan
3-Infinity: everyone else
-That's my religion.-
I've always been concerned about Timmy's long term health given he's a nearly 7' man with two parents who both died young of cancer. I remember it kind of deep sixed us against the Lakers in the playoffs in 2002, maybe we would have lost anyway because Antonio Daniels and Terry Porter couldn't hit a damn three to save their lives, but Timmy wasn't quite the same player as the MVP caliber season he had.
Yes, but I'd rather have had them win one over the Lakers in 00 to 02.
Side note: I am old now, but not grey. Though, I miss Tim Duncan. He was the best thing that happened to my life.
The gap between them, in my opinion, is much smaller than people think.
When we won that lottery on May 18, 1997, I was the happiest 17-year-old on the planet.
And I was the happiest three year old. But I didn't know it yet.
That's exactly how I indicated it.
If senile Pop didn't bench him when a defensive rebound wins game 6, Timmy likely wins Finals MVP (he had a monster game 6) [or he makes the short hook shot over Battier tying the game, we get a stop and score on the last possession and win game 7], and we still went on to repeat in 2014 (even with Nephew winning F-MVP), you could certainly make the Duncan > Jordan argument, especially since Jordan missed a couple years in his prime and his team wasn't really compe ive in the first several seasons of his career.
But alas, 5/6 is inferior to 6/6, even though Timmy wins the longevity argument you can't make a serious case that anyone else really touches Jordan.
LeBron wins the longevity argument against pretty much everyone else, maybe tied with Kareem, but his legacy is tarnished by way too many Finals losses and missed playoffs, too much bandwagoning (once is OK, but he's done it at least thrice), and just being a general overall y Gen Y (not quite millennial) type person on and off the court.
Who else is #2? Bill Russell won 11 championships but played in an era where there were what, 12 teams in a vast majority American white league (think a league with high BBIQ players but low athleticism and no three point shots to equalize that) and most black people were just starting to play basketball?
Today's NBA is honestly even worse than the 60s. You don't even have to be athletic anymore to play in today's NBA. If you can shoot >40% at NBA-length threes, sometimes with a hand in your face, (and make free throws at over 80%) you can play in today's NBA. You don't even need to be good at defense or practically anything else. You don't need to be able to score off the dribble, jump high, dunk, or be all that great of a ballhandler.
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