Pounding The Rock · Oct 5, 2017
The advice Tim Duncan gave to Peyton Manning
Tim Duncan, a Wake Forest student from 1993-1997, famously decided to forego the NBA Draft after both his sophomore and junior years in college, even though he, as Jerry West said of him at the time, was “the best player in the country and a No. 1 pick in the draft . . . if he leaves school after this season.” As we know, he made good on the promise he had made to his mother to graduate from college. His decision to stay four years is something we may never see again from a player of his caliber.