Lol. They have at least 3-4 years on contention with those great young draft pick-ups in Neal, green and Leonard.
He's under contract for next season and has a player option for the season after. You won't get rid of him that easily.
Players who play with hall of fame players - often multiple - dont generally run to play wih other talent. Duncan got drafted to a team that had DRob plus on it. He inherited 2 other Hof'ers. This is like someone saying Kobe never ran to pay with talent. Lol.
He deserved better than being benched at the end of game 6. He stays in the game, they most likely win it that night. Popovich had too much power and benched his best player in crunch time; you just DO NOT DO THAT for any reason. Twenty-some seconds left in the game and you get benched. You put your players in a position to win, not on the bench. Let Tim Duncan clinch the game by getting a rebound or two, hit some freethrows. Offense/Defensive substitutions are BS for the most part. This isn't football. The Spurs only had enough in the tank to win in 6, and Pop blew it. He blew it on three separate aspects of the game at the end. Taking Duncan out for those two 3's the Heat got on those offensive rebounds. And for not fouling while up by 3 with the Heat needing 3. At least make if difficult for the Heat to win for chrissakes. You don't roll the dice on OT or a Game 7 with an old, shaky team away from home. You leave Duncan in the goddamned game and live and die with him on Defense for godsakes. If the opponent needs 3 points, you foul them and send them to the line - that way they still have to foul you on the next possession change, or they need to pull off a miracle play. Shame. Too much tinkering when unneccessary. I don't see how a coach *****s up that badly when the game is in hand.
Why would he retire?!?! With the dearth of big men who can play in the NBA these days, he can play for atleast 2 more years and still be very efficient.
Not even close. Duncan had only an aging Robinson in SA when he could have left to join Grant Hill and/or T-Mac in Orlando back in 2000. And Parker and Ginobili were far from being obvious future HOFers back in 2003 when he won his second ring.
