Tim Duncan

Tim Duncan born as Timothy Theodor Duncan on April 25th 1976 in St Croix US Virgin Islands. In his early years he started off as an extremely well swimmer where he went on and broke several of US records at the ages of 13 and 14, his plans were to go to the Olympics to win a gold medal but eventually those big swimming dreams came to an end after a tragic incident that took place in his home state of Virgin Islands after Hurricane Hugo came and crashed into St Croix the area where he was living. Amongst the tragic the swimming pool where he practiced became destroyed filled with debris where he was forced to train in the ocean. Tim faced a major challenge due to his fear of sharks, and also another major love to Tim was the loss of his mother which changed Tim’s whole life around and left swimming for good. Tim was later on introduced to basketball by his brother-in-law, and eventually found a new love for a new sport and took his skills to St. Dunstan’s Episcopal High School where he averaged 25 points per game. Tim was offered the scholarships from Three schools—the University of Hartford, University of Delaware and Providence University but chose to go to A fourth school, Wake Forest. After college Tim was selected 3rd overall in the first round pick by the San Antonio Spurs, where he joined a major organization lead by a great team leader David Robinson and coach Gregg Popovich and two years later Tim Duncan and the San Antonio Spurs went on to win their first ever Championship. After David Robinson retired in 2003 Tim Duncan became the official leader of the San Antonio Spurs and led the spurs to win two more without David Robinson and Tim has recently broken many records of the Spurs Franchise and continues to demonstrate great leadership for the San Antonio Spurs.