Tim Duncan in a classic Nba Performance:blessed:

[Professor Emeritus]

That greatness and ether at the same time

Ha - wasn't exactly meant to be an ether. Kobe had a LONG good career. He was great from 2000 to 2010 - that's 11 seasons! Few players are great that long.

It's just insane that Duncan has been great for that much longer than another player with great longevity.

 

[AlbertPullhoez]

Got Speedy Claxton a ring, n1gga. Speedy fukking Claxton. Playing crunch time minutes too.

Rasho Nesterovic and Nazr Mohammed got titles starting at center next to the GOAT

Timmy won a title with a starting backcourt of 34 yr old Avery Johnson and 36 year old Mario Elie

Give me prime Tim over anybody else to build my team around. Easily the best of the post MJ era

 

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

Ha - wasn't exactly meant to be an ether. Kobe had a LONG good career. He was great from 2000 to 2010 - that's 11 seasons! Few players are great that long.

It's just insane that Duncan has been great for that much longer than another player with great longevity.

And he played college first too

 

[Lakerman0834]

Ha - wasn't exactly meant to be an ether. Kobe had a LONG good career. He was great from 2000 to 2010 - that's 11 seasons! Few players are great that long.

It's just insane that Duncan has been great for that much longer than another player with great longevity.

we gonna ignore duncans irrelevance from 2009-2012?

 

[gho3st]

Mozart on a basketball court, pure genius



@tremonthustler1 mama guevo

More Like Salieri . If he was Mozart, he'd have gone back 2 back






































2 back :kobepls:

 

[Dirty D]

Ridiculous game.

Duncan has never been irrelevant. Spurs were in the WCF in 2008 as defending champs. In the next 3 years in between they won 54, 50 and 61 games. That last year was when the Grizz beat them from the #8 spot. People thought that team was done at that time, and then they made the WCF in 2012 and then went to 2 more Finals and won a title. They will be contenders again next year as well.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Kobestans have to come in with ridiculous stupidity again.

Until Kobestans decided it could be an arguing point against Duncan, no one EVER said, "Yeah, that guy was a great champion, but he never won back-to-back! Winning back-to-back is the ultimate test of a champion, no matter how many championships you win!"

Larry Bird never won back-to-back, but no one ever says, "Larry Bird isn't really on the same level as George MIkan, because Bird never won back-to-back."

Kareem and Magic didn't get their first back-to-back championship until 1988, their 5th and last ring together. No one was writing after four, "Magic has four championships, but we're not going to consider him truly great until he defends one successfully." If Magic had won his 5th championship in 1991 instead of 1988, his legacy would be just as great as it is today.

The freaking Houston Rockets went back-to-back in the mid-1990s. They weren't that special a team. The bad boy Pistons won back-to-back in the late 1980s, but no one ever thinks they're the equal of the Boston Celtics teams that won three titles in different years earlier in that decade.

Winning championships back-to-back is more impressive than winning championships in different years because....oh, wait, there's no reason.

 

[Malta]

we gonna ignore duncans irrelevance from 2009-2012?

You ignore Kobe's irrelevance from 2010 till now

 

[Lakerman0834]

You ignore Kobe's irrelevance from 2010 till now

2012-now ill give u but up till 2012 and even part of this yr best player on his team while duncan was 3rd best player on his team since 2008

 

[MJ Truth]

Duncan's career is pretty much an unending stream of classic performances. He averaged 24-17-5-1-5 in that 2003 Finals.

We're talking about a guy who averaged 20-10-3-1-4 in his very first playoff series in 1998...being the same guy who just averaged 18-11-3-1-2 in his most recent playoff series in 2015.

32, 10, and 2 in his very first playoff game...27, 11, and 2 in his most recent playoff game.

Closed out the 1999 Finals in 5 games for his 1st championship...closed out the 2014 Finals in 5 games for his 5th championship.


Think about it this way...when Duncan was averaging 21 and 9 (with dominant defense) in the 1998 playoffs, Kobe was still coming off the bench behind Eddie Jones and averaging 8.6/1.8/1.5 in the playoffs. When Duncan was averaging 18 and 11 (and still killing it on D) in the 2015 playoffs...Kobe hadn't finished a season in three years.

Plus he played four years in college.

 

[Malta]

2012-now ill give u but up till 2012 and even part of this yr best player on his team while duncan was 3rd best player on his team since 2008

I know you're starving right now

Claim he was the 3rd best player since 08, but managed to lead the team in scoring in 2010


2010 till now, Kobe been irrelevant in title discussions, and in his own words not winning the chip makes it a wasted season


39 years old and better than your man is at 36

 

[DrexlersFade]

2012-now ill give u but up till 2012 and even part of this yr best player on his team while duncan was 3rd best player on his team since 2008

Tony Parker and Manu Ginolbli are better players think about what you just said not scoring but better players than Duncan...

34 year old Johnson and 36 year old Ellie and Speedy and a decrepid Robinson but but he always had these elite squads

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

Kobestans have to come in with ridiculous stupidity again.

Until Kobestans decided it could be an arguing point against Duncan, no one EVER said, "Yeah, that guy was a great champion, but he never won back-to-back! Winning back-to-back is the ultimate test of a champion, no matter how many championships you win!"

Larry Bird never won back-to-back, but no one ever says, "Larry Bird isn't really on the same level as George MIkan, because Bird never won back-to-back."

Kareem and Magic didn't get their first back-to-back championship until 1988, their 5th and last ring together. No one was writing after four, "Magic has four championships, but we're not going to consider him truly great until he defends one successfully." If Magic had won his 5th championship in 1991 instead of 1988, his legacy would be just as great as it is today.

The freaking Houston Rockets went back-to-back in the mid-1990s. They weren't that special a team. The bad boy Pistons won back-to-back in the late 1980s, but no one ever thinks they're the equal of the Boston Celtics teams that won three titles in different years earlier in that decade.

Winning championships back-to-back is more impressive than winning championships in different years because....oh, wait, there's no reason.

Yeah that back to back shyt is just stupid. 5 rings is 5 rings. It doesn't matter in what sequence you got them.

It's just some stupid shyt Spurs haters and Tobe stans came up with to try and discredit the gawd.

 

[DrexlersFade]

Yeah that back to back shyt is just stupid. 5 rings is 5 rings. It doesn't matter in what sequence you got them.

It's just some stupid shyt Spurs haters and Tobe stans came up with to try and discredit the gawd.

That's all it is lead by senile Phil I literally never heard that shyt until Duncan was about to get his fifth the agenda is real

 

[Boonapalist]

Kobestans have to come in with ridiculous stupidity again.

Until Kobestans decided it could be an arguing point against Duncan, no one EVER said, "Yeah, that guy was a great champion, but he never won back-to-back! Winning back-to-back is the ultimate test of a champion, no matter how many championships you win!"

Larry Bird never won back-to-back, but no one ever says, "Larry Bird isn't really on the same level as George MIkan, because Bird never won back-to-back."

Kareem and Magic didn't get their first back-to-back championship until 1988, their 5th and last ring together. No one was writing after four, "Magic has four championships, but we're not going to consider him truly great until he defends one successfully." If Magic had won his 5th championship in 1991 instead of 1988, his legacy would be just as great as it is today.

The freaking Houston Rockets went back-to-back in the mid-1990s. They weren't that special a team. The bad boy Pistons won back-to-back in the late 1980s, but no one ever thinks they're the equal of the Boston Celtics teams that won three titles in different years earlier in that decade.

Winning championships back-to-back is more impressive than winning championships in different years because....oh, wait, there's no reason.

nikka you brought up Kobe out of now where, and don't expect his stans to flock in here.