The NBA is a business league that really does the talk about emotional hurt money, but there are many bosses who have strong feelings for their big stars, Cuban for Nowitzki, and Warriors bosses who bow to Clay. There are also many bosses who are not humane and only know how to make money, the Rockets' Arleigh period, and the youngest MVP Rose was ruthlessly abandoned by the Bulls. Saying this is actually to express that the Spurs boss is particularly good to Duncan, directly retired from the NBA, even during the contract period, the team will not pay wages, and layoffs, it is necessary to pay wages.
Nicknamed "Stone Buddha", Duncan joined the San Antonio Spurs in 1997 as a champion, San Antonio is a small ball city, like other small ball cities in the league, it is difficult to attract super giants to join, and if you want to turn around, you have to cultivate super giants. His career has been stuck in the Spurs for 19 years, and has always been the main force of the iron, can be called the model representative of "one person, one city", and the "GDP" combination of that year is always the favorite to win the championship, Duncan career he won a total of 5 NBA championships, 3 FMVP, 2 MVP, 15 times selected for the best team, 2020 NBA Hall of Fame. Duncan played a total of 1,392 games in the 19-year career regular season, winning 1,001 of them (only three players in league history have had more than 1,000 wins in Jabbar 1,074 games, Robert Parrish 1,014 games, and Duncan), with a 71.9% win rate.
He averaged 19.0 points, 10.8 rebounds, 3.0 assists, 0.7 steals, 2.2 blocks, and shot 50.6 percent from the field. In the playoffs, 251 games, he averaged 20.6 points, 11.4 rebounds, 3.0 assists, 0.7 steals, 2.3 blocks, and shot 50.1% from the field. The data shows that Duncan's career is very great.
Later in his career, Duncan signed other stars in order for the team to have more salary space, and took the initiative to reduce salaries many times, just like Nowitzki at that time. Duncan had a one-year contract with the Spurs when he retired, and in order to honor the meritorious players, the management decided to lay him off, giving Duncan $5.64 million in his last year, and Duncan had the same treatment as Duncan's $2.5 million from Ginobili, so the two did not play another game for the Spurs after retiring, and they both received the full salary of the contract signed in their careers. Duncan's $5.64 million was paid out over three seasons, $1.88 million per year. Veterans don't die, they just fade away. The reason why the Spurs chose to cut Duncan is because Duncan brought San Antonio enough sincerity and honor to continue to get paid, and if Duncan directly retired himself, he would not enjoy these salaries. It's also a way for small-ball city teams to close the hearts and minds of the people.
I also hope that our CBA league will also emerge more legends.