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Tim Duncan is one of the most popular and richest Basketball Player who was born on April 25, 1976 in St. Croix, United States Virgin Islands. Legendary power forward of the San Antonio Spurs who won his third NBA Finals MVP Award in 2005, as well as his the fifth NBA Championship in 2014. He was invited to play in 14 NBA All-Star games between 1998 between 1998 and 2013, and was been named NBA MVP in 2002 and 2003. He was named NBA MVP in 2003 and was promoted to an assistant coach with the Spurs.
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Tim Duncan was born and raised on Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. He is the son of Ione, a professional midwife, and William Duncan, a mason. He has two older sisters, Cheryl and Tricia, and one older brother, Scott, who became a film director and cinematographer. Cheryl was a champion swimmer before she became a nurse, and Tricia swam for the U.S. Virgin Islands at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.
In 1989, after Hurricane Hugo had destroyed the one Olympic-sized swimming pool on the island, Duncan was forced to swim in the ocean instead, and his fear of sharks ruined his enthusiasm for the sport. Duncan was dealt another emotional blow when his mother, suffering from breast cancer, died one day before his 14th birthday. On her deathbed, she made Duncan and his sisters promise that no matter what they would graduate from college having obtained a degree, going a long way in explaining Duncan’s later refusal to leave his college early for the NBA.
He got married to Amy Duncan in 2001 and He has a son named Draven and a daughter, Sydney.
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In the year before Duncan’s arrival at Wake Forest University, the Demon Deacons reached the Sweet 16, but then lost leading scorer Rodney Rogers, who entered the 1993 NBA draft. In the 1993–94 NCAA season, Coach Dave Odom was considering redshirting Duncan, but was forced to play him after fellow freshman big man Makhtar N’Diaye violated NCAA rules and eventually transferred to Michigan. Duncan struggled with early transition problems and was even held scoreless in his first college game, but as the year progressed, he and teammate Randolph Childress led the Deacons to a 20–11 win–loss record. Duncan’s style of play was simple yet effective, combining an array of low-post moves, mid-range bank shots, and tough defense. He was chosen to represent the U.S. in the 1994 Goodwill Games. Meanwhile, Duncan worked towards a degree in psychology and also took classes in anthropology and Chinese literature. Despite his heavy focus on basketball, Wake Forest psychology department chairperson Deborah Best said, “Tim […] was one of my more intellectual students. […] Other than his height, I couldn’t tell him from any other student at Wake Forest.” Duncan also established his reputation as a stoic player, to the extent that opposing fans taunted him as “Mr. Spock”, the prototypical logical, detached character from Star Trek.
