1997-98 Bowman's Best ROOKIE Tim Duncan San Antonio Spurs Olympic Team USA #106

Description: 1997-98 Bowmans Best Rookie Tim Duncan San Antonio Spurs #106 Mint/Near Mint condition, four nice crisp corners, edges are sharp as pictured. Tim Duncan (born April 25, 1976, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands) was a collegiate basketball player for Wake Forest University and drafted #1 overall by the San Antonio Spurs in the 1997 NBA Draft. He would eventually help lead the Spurs to five NBA World Championships (1999, 2003, 2005, 2007, and 2014). Duncan and teammate David Robinson formed the dominating tandem known as the “Twin Towers,” and in 1998 Duncan was named Rookie of the Year. The following season he averaged 24 points and 17 rebounds in the NBA finals against the New York Knicks to give the Spurs the franchise’s first NBA title and earn himself the finals Most Valuable Player (MVP) award. In 2000 he was named co-MVP of the All-Star Game, but he later suffered a knee injury that ended his season and forced him to withdraw from the U.S. men’s Team USA Olympic basketball team. After Duncan recovered from his injury, his performance in the 2001–02 season—in which he became the 14th NBA player to have registered more than 2,000 points and 1,000 rebounds in a single season—secured him the league’s NBA MVP award. In 2003 he led the Spurs to victory over the New Jersey Nets, scoring a triple double (21 points, 20 rebounds, and 10 assists) in the decisive sixth game to claim the NBA title and his second finals MVP award. He was also named MVP for his regular-season play. In 2004 Duncan finally realized his dream of competing in the Olympics, helping the U.S. men’s basketball team win a bronze medal at the Athens Games. Following the retirement of Robinson in 2003, Duncan was named captain of the Spurs. In the 2004–05 season San Antonio defeated the defending champions, the Detroit Pistons, to win their third championship. That year Duncan became the fourth player to win three finals MVP awards. In 2007 the Spurs swept the Cleveland Cavaliers to capture another title. Duncan’s strong play continued despite his (by NBA standards) advancing age. In 2012–13 he was named, at age 37, first-team All-NBA for the 10th time in his career. In that postseason he led the Spurs to the franchise’s fifth appearance in the NBA finals, where the team lost a seven-game series to the Miami Heat. Duncan again guided the Spurs to a berth in the finals the following season, where the 38-year-old center led his team in minutes played en route to a five-game-series victory in a rematch with the Heat. Duncan earned his 15th career All-Star Game appearance in 2014–15 and led the team to 55 regular-season wins, but the Spurs were eliminated in the first round of the playoffs while playing in a historically good Western Conference field.

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