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Well this sucks. I hardly remember Spurs basketball without him. It's hard to fully gauge the impact he's had on this city. For a kid that grew up in San Antonio, Tim Duncan was THE sports role model; he was everyone's hero. He wasn't flashy or gaudy, he just kicked your ass and went about his business. There was something so cool about that. San Antonio is probably the only city where number 23 wasn't the first choice of every kid in middle school when picking jerseys.
It's weird. He was drafted when I was 9 years old. Hard to believe that he has been dominating the NBA for over 2/3 of my life. And now, here at the end... I mean you knew it was coming, but even so, it hurts to see him go. I will really, really miss seeing 21 don the silver and black.
Enjoy your retirement, Timmy.
I beg to differ with you young man. This doesn't suck. What sucked was the pre Duncan era of the Spurs. You didn't miss much. After the novelty of having an NBA team in SA wore off, I lived trough the Doug Moe era and the idiocy of the Bruise Brothers. We couldn't beat the Lakers or those devils in Utah to save our soul. Then Pop and Timmy got here and the rest, they say. is history.
Best of all, no cheesy retirement tour for Tim. All the best to him.
The person that is not willing to fight and die, if need be, for his country has no right to life.
James Earl Rudder '32
January 31, 1945
