San Antonio Spurs forward Tim Duncan today announced that he will retire after 19 seasons.

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San Antonio Spurs forward Tim Duncan today announced that he will retire after 19 seasons with the Spurs. Since drafting Duncan, the Spurs won five championships and posted a 1,072-438 regular season record, giving the team a .710 winning percentage, which ranks as the best 19-year stretch in NBA history and was the best in all of the NBA, NFL, NHL and MLB over the last 19 years.

 

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Hall of Famer and a classy guy.

 

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5 NBA titles.....126 playoff wins.....575 regular season wins.....The Spurs' Big 3 era is now over, but what a run it was.
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Hall of Famer and a classy guy.

One of the best!

Both as a player and as a class act!

 

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19 NBA seasons.....5 NBA titles.....3 Finals MVPs..... 2 League MVPs
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Tim Duncan is the only player in league history to start and win a title in three different decades.

 

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Tim Duncan and Gregg Popovich have the most wins by a player-coach duo in NBA history (1,001).

 

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Tim Duncan retires as all-time Spurs leader in:..... Points: 26,496.....Rebounds: 15,091...... Blocks: 3,020..... Games: 1,392

 

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Since the Spurs drafted Tim Duncan in '97, no team in ANY of the 4 major sports has a better win percentage (.710).

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Tim Duncan (1158 wins)...Orlando (1119)...Charlotte (939)...Minnesota (864)...Toronto (758)...Memphis (721)...New Orleans (543)

 

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[KingEleven]

Wish the Celtics had got him. GREAT career!

 

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one of the greats of the game

 

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If you combined the career plus-minus totals of Ray Allen (+3,551), Dwyane Wade (+2,941), and Kevin Durant (+1,964), it would still fall short of Tim Duncan's ... by about 500 points.

 

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We've seen a lot of legends retire this year.

 

[KingEleven]

GB2, not sure I would call everyone in your collage a LEGEND

 

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Crazy Stat of Day: Tim Duncan made the playoffs each of his 19 seasons since the Spurs drafted him in 1997.