Duncan is the number one striker in history. As a champion, he entered the NBA after college because he promised his mother. Duncan later remembered his mother, saying, "In the game, she was always the loudest parent. I can always hear her cheering me on in the crowd. The motto that her mother had taught him, he still took to heart. "Good, better, best, unless you can go from being better to being better, from being better to being the best, don't stop moving forward." Duncan in college has always been the attention of NBA scouts, and in order to get Duncan, many teams have begun to mess up early.
The first is the Grizzlies. The Grizzlies, who are already short of stars, have naturally coveted Duncan for a long time, and seeing that many teams want to grab people, then I simply suck to the end. The Grizzlies won just 14 games that season, the worst regular season record in team history.
This was followed by the 76ers, who had just been drafted iverson in 1996, but that season the 76ers team management had a lot of problems, the military was distracted, and the players were infighting. Seeing that the results could not be beaten, he simply followed a wave of chaos, wanted to chase Duncan, and wanted to form a combination of "Iverson + Duncan". In the end, the 76ers only finished fifth from the bottom of the season with only 22 wins, and if it does, it may be that the 76ers will be invincible in the East.
There is also the Celtics, when the head coach of the Celtics was still "Cardinal" Auerbach, he had a crush on Duncan very early on, and even bluntly said that the team would get the future star at all costs. In order to get Duncan, the Celtics also chose to spoil it from the beginning of the season. In the end, the Celtics ended the season with 15 wins, which was also the worst regular season record in Celtics history. It is said that at that time, Auerbach learned that Duncan had been taken by the Spurs, and repeatedly called Popovich to express his willingness to exchange Duncan for anyone on the entire team, but was rejected by Popovich, and finally announced his retirement after no result.
Finally, the Spurs, Popovich deliberately reimbursed the core of the team, fired the head coach himself, and hid several main players. The Spurs' regular season record in the previous season was 59-23. After a series of operations by the Spurs, the Spurs only won 20 games, ranking fourth from the bottom of all teams, and in the absence of the team's maximum probability of winning the lottery, they successfully drew the lottery and took duncan.
In his 19 seasons with the Spurs, Duncan has won FMVP three times, MVP twice, was named to the All-Team 15 times, was named to the All-Defensive Team 15 times, and was also selected as an All-Star
The first player in NBA history to win 1,000 games on the same team.
Of course, he is also recognized as a big forward player in the history of the NBA.