Tim Duncan retired. No press conference, no questions, just a press release. The San Antonio Spurs power forward made the playoffs in each of his 19 seasons and won a title in each decade he played in.
Wow.
That’s the most common misconception about Tim Duncan, one that I’ve been guilty of at times: That he was somehow so constant and persistent in his game that it got boring. It was never easy to focus on Duncan and Duncan alone; he was so inseparable from the team concept that his individuality was masked.