From his debut on Halloween in through his retirement in , Tim Duncan was one of the most consistent NBA superstars the league has ever seen. The presence of Duncan elevated teammates, coaches, and the entire city of San Antonio for 19 years. Cunningham helped lead the Pistons to a win over Green and the Rockets, registering his first point game in the process. If there can be a conversation about the Rookie of the Year just three weeks into the season, Turner believes Duarte should be part of it.
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Each version also has a limited Legacy Collection parallel that is numbered to Crystal and Tiffany Collection parallels add rarity and a change in the foil color.
The posed image with a fence in the background gives this Ultra Tim Duncan rookie a unique look. Anything but subtle, the Tim Duncan rookie card in Hoops may be the most obnoxious of the group. However, it does offer another budget rookie option. A popular design for collectors, E-X takes acetate and foil and makes it work very well.
Metal Universe opts for a more abstract Tim Duncan rookie card, composed of foil and a pinkish background with a celestial feel. The Skybox Premium design makes Tim Duncan the primary focus with a blurred background and is accented with gold foil.
The Star Rubies parallel is numbered to 50 and features a wild, Refractor-like finish and red foil. Giving Hoops a run for the loudest Tim Duncan rookie card design, Z-Force is an explosion of color and lines.
The first basketball edition of SP Authentic is likely the most unrecognizable for collectors given the dark background and light border. This Tim Duncan rookie is very condition-sensitive. Although Duncan didn't know it yet, another stroke of fate would define his career on Dec. The Spurs had been a serious Western Conference contender in the '90s, but the season-ending injury to the superstar derailed their campaign.
San Antonio stumbled to a record in , a season that also saw general manager Gregg Popovich fire head coach Bob Hill and replace him with himself. After San Antonio won the draft lottery that spring, Popovich made it clear right away Duncan was going to be a Spur.
Buford starting for us at off-guard," he said. Duncan made his NBA regular-season debut on Halloween in against the Denver Nuggets, scoring 15 points while grabbing 10 rebounds. It was his first of 57 double-doubles that season, a league-leading mark. While he lacked the flash of big man contemporaries like Kevin Garnett, Duncan quickly won purists over with his basketball IQ. While the controlled chaos of Garnett's game would see him crush a ferocious dunk and let out a primal scream, Duncan was quietly - and lethally - working the elbows and the glass.
Duncan's first NBA campaign remains one of the greatest of all time based on accolades alone. Adding Duncan alongside a healthy Robinson made the Spurs a force.
San Antonio won 56 games in , good for fifth in the West. While the idea of pairing two traditional big men on the same team is a foreign concept today, in the days before pace-and-space it worked to near perfection.
Known as the "Twin Towers," Duncan and Robinson anchored the second-best defense in the NBA while playing off each other fluidly on offense. Duncan scored 32 points in his playoff debut - a win over the Phoenix Suns.
The Spurs dispatched Phoenix in the first round, but lost to the eventual conference champion Utah Jazz in five games in the semis. Duncan's sophomore season eclipsed his stellar rookie campaign.
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