Tim Duncan

With Kevin Garnett’s four defensive rebounds in the Timberwolves 111-108 loss in Denver Friday night, Garnett became the NBA’s all-time leader in defensive rebounds for his career. After Sunday’s game in Phoenix, Kevin Garnett how has 11,410 career defensive rebounds, passing Karl Malone who had 11,406 rebounds in his career. The third player on the [...]

Chris Bosh thinks that Kobe Bryant is the best player of his generation. Which is weird. And wrong. On so many different levels. Bosh offered the following sentiments while making an appearance on NBC Sports’ The Dan Patrick Show (h/t ProBasketballTalk): He’s the greatest player of my generation. He was that guy after Mike that [...]

Stephen Curry update: Stephen Curry is still really good. Really, really good. So good that he’s used the Golden State Warriors’ first eight games as his own personal plaything—a stage on which he has humiliated defenses, torched twine, made twenty-point quarters a regularity and, above all else, put the NBA’s early season MVP race in [...]

Tim Duncan is impressed by Manu Ginobili. Really impressed. At 38 years old, with 13 NBA seasons to his credit, Manu Ginboili’s best days are clearly behind him. His per-game minutes averages have been in decline since 2010-11, and his role within the San Antonio Spurs’ offense isn’t nearly as prominent as it once was. [...]

LaMarcus Aldridge is set in his ways—which is important, because his ways aren’t yet the San Antonio Spurs’ ways. After nine years with the Portland Trail Blazers, Aldridge decided to journey elsewhere in free agency over the summer. It seemed like a no-brainer decision. The Blazers started stripping down their contention-ready roster and gearing up [...]

Kobe Bryant is not universally loved. We’ve known this, of course, for a while. His personality can be tough to like, even difficult to overlook. He’s made a name for himself over the last 20 years as a psychopathic competitor who doesn’t have time to be bothered with normal shit, such as deep-seated relationships with [...]

Hi, LaMarcus Aldridge. This is your new coach, Gregg Popovich, speaking. Welcome to the San Antonio Spurs. Now, sit down and shut up. Sounds about right, doesn’t it? The Spurs’ newest championship cog missed a training-cap workout on Tuesday with what San Antonio called “leg tightness.” For the record, it was not his decision. He [...]

I grew up amidst the basketball eras of Magic, Bird, and Jordan, when finding a great European player in the NBA was about as rare as the L.A. Clippers making a good draft selection or the playoffs for that matter. I grew up in a time where the Lakers Vlade Divac was literally considered the [...]

So we’ve already established that Tim Duncan is super generous by NBA standards. But, as it turns out, his friendliness extends to his opponents. Duncan won the Twyman-Stokes Teammate of the Year Award on Wednesday, a distinction that recognizes preeminent leaders, serial selflessness and phenomenal mentors And, from a San Antonio Spurs perspective, it’s easy [...]

Tim Duncan is pretty generous. It’s easy to be generous, of course, when you’ve raked in nearly $235 million in career salary and aren’t even done playing yet. But, relative to the NBA’s financial stratosphere, Duncan has gone above and beyond and then back again—756 times. This all started with yours truly traveling down a [...]