Tim Duncan signs 3 year contract w/ spurs

[TMT]

My all-time favorite player getting paid for this accomplishments. I'm glad we will get to see him for three more years. I'm sure a handful of people here will say 34 million is over the top, but the Spurs are one of those organizations who treats their players right. Especially when it comes to a once in an era guy like Tim Duncan.

Patty Mills and Nando De Colo have also been re-signed and signed respectively.

[NugzFan]

Pretty much every teams with space would dish out huge amount of money to get him.

which teams would this be?

[Haymaker]

Can't believe they made almost zero effort to recruit any decent free agent in the market. Oh well, it's our last hurrah. Go Spurs!

[Punpun]

which teams would this be?

Every team willing to dish out 10+M for a C. Which is 90% of the league.

[TMT]

Can't believe they made almost zero effort to recruit any decent free agent in the market. Oh well, it's our last hurrah. Go Spurs!

We still have the potential to make some traded in order to upgrade the roster. Blair seems positive he won't be returning next year, Neal looks out of place with the logjam at guard on the roster, Bonner seems like a good candidate for use of the amnesty clause which could clear up some cap space. There are still many moves to be made, the offseason is young.

[NoGunzJustSkillz]

We still have the potential to make some traded in order to upgrade the roster. Blair seems positive he won't be returning next year, Neal looks out of place with the logjam at guard on the roster, Bonner seems like a good candidate for use of the amnesty clause which could clear up some cap space. There are still many moves to be made, the offseason is young.

off-season don't start til howard gets traded lol.

[D-Rose]

So, KG and Timmy get the same deal?

Interesting to see some of the older HOFers getting 3 year deals this summer: KG, Kidd, Nash, Duncan.

[senelcoolidge]

Year 3 of that contract they will have to cart him to the games. Am sure he will still be able to flop and complain to refs. Future HoF'er.

[IGotACoolStory]

Love the guy, but he won't last 3 years.

I have my doubts on what he will look next year. These big guys have a tendency to drop dead suddenly over a summer. Look at Shaq in Phoenix (was still decent) and then as a Cav. He went from Superstar to Roleplayer to a bench player starting in 3 seasons.

[TMT]

Out of any of the HOF big men from this most recent era, Duncan is probably the one who relies on athleticism the least. The guy doesn't have any jump anymore, but still put up 15/9 last year on a good percentage. There's a reason they call him The Big Fundamental. He's not Shaq, he's not KG, he's Tim Duncan and the basics of his game alone are what make him have a great impact as a player. Other than his deteriorating vertical, he is also still a solid defender and shotblocker.

[IGotACoolStory]

Fine then, look at Hakeem Olajuwon. While he relied on his athleticism (as does every NBA player in the history of the game to some extent), his fundamentals and skill level were so sound that he would last until his bones broke, right?

He had a similar decline like most bigs as well.

Even Kareem had that sudden drop, although that guy played into this 40's...

They just hit a wall. Duncan is already in his Shaq Phoenix days, imo. Sooner or later father time will catch up and Duncan looks like he's pushing the limit already.

[jbryan1984]

So assuming Duncan and Pop remain Spurs until the 2014-15 season, would this be the first time in history a star had the same coach his entire career? I'm trying to think..... Malone had Layden before Sloan. Russell played and coached his last few years. Can't really think of any other close calls.

[TMT]

Clearly Duncan isn't looking to play at a high level for 3 more seasons. Much like KG won't, Kidd won't, Camby won't. What I'm saying is because of his particular style of play I don't see him going from a 15/9 player to suddenly an irrelevant 8/5 player. Shaq had a big drop off but he wasn't exactly playing a large amount of games (due to injury) in his last year in Miami or his couple of years in Phoenix and beyond.

2006-7 Miami: 33 games + 4 playoff games
2007–8 Phoenix: 28 games + 5 playoff games
2008–9 Phoenix: 75 games/ no playoffs
2009-10 Cleveland: 53 games + 11 playoff games
2010–11 Boston: 37 games + 2 playoff games

Out of all the games listed, he only failed to start in 3 of them.

For the most part it was injuries that kept this guy from appearing so it's not exactly a solid comparison to what is to come for Duncan unless he starts having major health problems. But if you look at his GP the last 5 seasons (not including playoffs)

06-7: 80 games
07-8: 78 games
08-9: 75 games
09-10: 78 games
10-11: 76 games
11-12: 58 games (lockout season)

The man has been relatively healthy, and hasn't missed a big chunk of games since the 04-05 campaign. Not to mentions games he has missed in the past couple of years has been due to Pop vowing to rest him.

[Yung D-Will]

People don't listen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qsal_3b-dG8

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