It takes less than a minute after Tim Duncan pulls up to the entrance of his car customization business in San Antonio, BlackJack Speed Shop, to realize that this isn't the same mild-mannered Tim Duncan in a Spurs uniform.
Stepping out of his blue Porsche 911 Turbo with gold-finished Pur Wheels—one of his nine customized cars—Duncan opens the front door wearing sunglasses, army cargo shorts and a T-shirt with the ThunderCats logo of the animated TV series. He greets his BlackJack business partner and friend for 18 years, Jason Pena, with a special handshake, only reserved for the two of them. They give each other three slaps with their right hand, a creative touch you wouldn't see from the no-nonsense basketball version of Duncan.
Then he grabs a yellow-canned Red Bull in a mini-fridge by the front desk and leads two people—his older brother, Scott, an Emmy award-winning filmmaker and photographer, who rode with Duncan to the shop, and a writer—upstairs into BlackJack's main office. He leans back in a reclining chair at the desk and sips his drink, then turns around and jokingly kn ...
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Tim Duncan Revs Up Style in His Car Shop, Revealing a Rare Portrait of a Legend
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