Five-time champion Tim Duncan retired from basketball.
Duncan played in the Association since 1997 – his career spent in “San Antonio”, breaking a portion of the various statistical achievements.
For 19 years the era of Duncan the spurs won a victory in 1072 438 lesions is the best result in the four major American leagues during this time.
Also Duncan is the only player in the history of the Association, who won with the same team for at least a thousand games.
Duncan in 2002 and 2003 was recognized as the MVP of the regular season, and three times voted the most valuable player of the NBA Finals. Duncan 15 trips to the all-star game and was repeatedly chosen to the first team of the season.
Duncan is one of the best power forwards in the history of the Association in average per game, the symbol “San Antonio” in matches of the regular season were scored 19.0 points and 10.8 rebounds and 3.0 assists. In the playoffs his average for games had the following personal statistics of 20.6 points and 11.4 rebounds and 3.0 assists.
Earlier career in the NBA completed another five-time champion Kobe Bryant, who played in “Los Angeles Lakers” 20 seasons.
