Duncan is known as the Stone Buddha because of his expressionless face, cold-faced killer, big man, and strong body. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

He smiled stingily, even if he won, he only forcibly squeezed out a few traces of emotionless smiles at the corners of his mouth, perhaps because he was serious for too long, causing Shi Buddha not only to smile unmovingly, but also to make him rarely angry, and he was immediately treated unfairly by the referee, he just stared at the huge eyes and made an innocent appearance, and there would be no other expression changes.

It seems that his style of play is the same, simple and stripped of all fancy, and seems to reject all things appreciative.

Duncan is such a man, and he is also known as the "Stone Buddha"!

A man with no thunder on his body and no anger in his eyes, but his hands are always clenched, one hand is clear, and the other is ordinary.

No one on any of the great stone mountains would think of Duncan's poker face, but what is hidden in the stone Buddha is all-encompassing greatness.

In 1997-98, the Spurs returned from injury with David Robinson and Tim Duncan to join, making the biggest win improvement in a single season in NBA history, winning 56 games and reaching the second round of the playoffs.

Duncan won the Rookie of the Year award without any suspense.

Duncan sprained his ankle in Game 2 of the Western Conference semifinals against the Utah Jazz, and the Jazz won 109-106 in overtime.

The Spurs ended up losing the series 1-4.

In the 1998-1999 season, the Spurs won the first championship In the 1998-99 season, the NBA was temporarily suspended due to labor disputes, and the regular season was reduced from 82 games to 50 games.

The Spurs started the season with just 6 wins and 8 losses, and head coach Popovich was criticized for it, but leaders Duncan and Robinson both showed strong support for him, and the team ended up with a 31-5 record.

The Spurs defeated the Timberwolves 3-1 in the first round of the playoffs, swept the Lakers 4-0 in the second round, swept the Trail Blazers in the Western Conference Finals, and finally reached the Finals, and defeated the New York Knicks 4-1, which was the first NBA championship in the history of the Spurs, and Duncan was elected Finals MVP with 27.4 points, 14 rebounds and 2.2 blocks.

In the 1999-00 season, the Spurs had a 53-29 record, but lost 1-3 to the Suns in the first round of the playoffs due to a torn meniscus of the team's leader, Duncan, and missed the playoffs.

Without Duncan, the Spurs plummeted, but the following year, Duncan recovered from injury and returned immediately.

In the regular season, 58-24, handed over a qualified answer sheet, and then, the first round of the playoffs directly eliminated the Timberwolves 3-1, and the Western Conference semifinals 4-1, almost swept the Mavericks.

But unfortunately, in the face of the Lakers, the Spurs were swept out......

That year, the Spurs selected 19-year-old Tony Parker for the 28th place in the first round, and in the 01-02 season, they once again played a 58-24 record, but the history is always strikingly similar, in the Western Conference semifinals, they lost to the Lakers 4-1 and missed the Finals.

The 02-03 season is definitely the strongest season for the Spurs!

Among them, Tony Parker has matured after a year of growth, and there is Manu Ginobili, who was drafted in this round in 99, and he is also entering the NBA today.

This year, in the regular season, under Duncan's leadership, the Spurs won 60-22 and advanced again.

In the first round of the playoffs, the Suns were eliminated 4-2, and in the Western Conference semifinals, the Spurs did not let history repeat themselves and directly eliminated the Lakers 4-2!

In the Western Conference Finals, the Mavericks were eliminated 4-2, and the finals completely crushed the Nets at that time.

It also ended the Nets' hopes of winning their first championship.

It was from that time that the Nets completely collapsed and became the bottom team in the league.

This year, Duncan swept the MVP of the regular season and the Finals, averaging 24.2 points, 17 rebounds, 5.33 blocks, and 5.3 assists per game!

In the 6th game of the coronation, he scored 21 points, 20 rebounds, 10 assists and 8 blocks, and almost became the first person in history to achieve a quadruple-double feat in the finals.

After Yao Ming landed in the NBA, there were only three teams that Xiao Ran paid attention to, one was the Rockets, which was indisputable, then the Lakers, and finally the Spurs!

Xiao Ran, who was young at the time, felt that Duncan's calm gaze was the most handsome!

For this reason, his basketball idols have also added Duncan from Yao Ming, Maddie, Kobe, and O'Neal!

The Spurs' locker room has a glass frame with this quote in it.

"When everything seemed to be going nowhere, I went to see a stonemason knocking stones. He knocked 100 times in a row, and the stone still didn't move. But when he struck the 101st time, the stone was split in two. But I knew that it was not the final blow that cracked the stone, but the result of a hundred previous blows. ”

This sentence has the same meaning as grinding an iron pestle into a needle, that is, to persevere.

And this is also a true portrayal of Duncan.

From '97, Duncan entered the NBA, and until now, Duncan has been playing in the NBA for almost two decades.

Definitely a veteran in the league.

How can a person who can't persevere, play in the NBA for 20 years in a row, this is the world's top competition, the intensity is beyond imagination!

For this game, Xiao Ran can't wait.

He wanted to say a word to Duncan face to face!

"Hello idol!"

It's not for anything else, just to pay tribute to the former youth, just for feelings.

After the game against the Cavaliers, the Nets hurried to prepare for the next game.

I have to say that the Nets have a strange schedule, either they keep meeting strong teams or they keep meeting weak teams.

In the previous games, the Nets won seven in a row and lost only one game to the Rockets.

Before the start of the game, ESPN also calculated the results through BPI, that is, the Basketball Power Index, and came to a conclusion that surprised ESPN, that is, the Nets had a 93% win rate against the Spurs!

Then ESPN ruled Xiao Ran out and calculated it again, and this time the result was even more surprising, because the Nets only had a 1% chance of winning!

In other words, if there is no Xiao Ran, the Nets will not have the luck against the sky and will definitely not be able to win, on the contrary, with Xiao Ran, the Spurs' hope of victory will also shrink.

ESPN is the largest sports TV station in the United States, which is watched by more than 90 million households in the United States, but also in 147 countries around the world.

Now the major bookmakers are also more bullish on the Nets, according to the West Side casino in Las Vegas, the current odds for the Nets to win the championship are -360 and the Spurs are +320. In other words, if you bet on a Nets victory, you have to bet $360 to earn back $100, and if you bet on the Spurs, you can make $320 by betting $100!