Basketball is a young man's game, but the rules have never seemed to apply to Tim Duncan.
Though incoming rookies on the San Antonio Spurs might be tempted to ask him what it was like to invent fire, then wonder how difficult it was to bank jumpers into a peach basket, Duncan still isn't too old to star in the NBA.
The iconic big man has been working on his craft for quite a long time. Now 39 years old, he was drafted out of Wake Forest with the No. 1 pick in 1997, and the rest is history. He's racked up a ridiculous number of accolades during his time in the Association, thriving from both an individual and team perspective during his 18 seasons of professional basketball.
But this isn't about the honors he's earned or the titles he's won. Kobe Bryant gets so much attention now that he's moving into what could be the final season of his career, but Duncan deserves just as much. It's an indisputably remarkable fact that Duncan is still going strong as he enters what could be his own last go-round playing for the Spurs.
Precious few throughout the history of the league have been able to claim this ty ...
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