Normally, when the score difference reaches 20 points, the players will relax a little, but the disciplined Spurs rarely make such mistakes, especially tonight, when they have to win the game.

While maintaining defensive intensity, Thunderwater strengthened the offense, helping the team expand the margin to 28 points with 4 minutes left in the third quarter, and he also scored 30 points, 15 assists, 12 rebounds, and most importantly, he got 5 steals in a single quarter, and the total number of steals reached 7, making Holiday more turnovers than assists.

With such a big lead base, the old man Bobo is also relieved to let the second team play the fourth quarter, although the second team is not as strong as the starting lineup, but it is no problem to hold the advantage.

Halfway through the fourth quarter, the Spurs still held a 25-point advantage, and Pelicans coach Gentry knew that today's game would be difficult to win, and today was the day of the Duncan jersey retirement ceremony, so he gave up the game with interest.

The Pelicans are on the second lineup, and the Spurs are on the third team, today is a good day, so the old man Bobo also saved some face for the Pelicans, and in the last half of the quarter, he only focused on offense, properly relaxed the defense, and in the end, both sides scored very high, and the Spurs won the game with 129:111 Pelicans.

After the game, the players from both sides greeted each other, and Bobo invited everyone on the Pelicans to come back for Duncan's jersey retirement ceremony.

After the hurried greetings, everyone hurried back to the locker room to take a shower as soon as possible and return for Duncan's jersey retirement ceremony.

Spurs all showered, changed into suits, assembled in the locker room, and headed to the players' tunnel to get back on the court to witness the glorious moment.

Arriving at the entrance of the passage, Duncan and his family were already waiting there to prepare for the stage, and everyone stepped forward one by one to hug Duncan and send blessings.

Lei Shui hugged Duncan and said, "Tim, I have prepared a gift for you today, and I will send you to the car later." ”

Ginobili heard it and said, "Tim, you're a soft recipient today!" ”

Duncan waved his hand and smiled, "Today I drove the biggest car in the store, which is enough to put down your gifts, so just give it away, you're welcome!" ”

Parker had just undergone surgery and came on crutches, and said, "I'm going to give myself to you as a gift, and you'll take care of me for 3 months." ”

Duncan smiled: "Okay, no problem, I will take good care of you, and then while you still have trade value, I will suggest that Bobo exchange you for some reserve talent." ”

Parker laughed, "Oh! Bobo won't listen to you, after you're gone, I'm the backbone of the team now, he'd rather trade that bald guy than mine! ”

Ginobili turned around and said to the thunder water, "Thunder! Come over and break Tony's leg, and the point guard position will always be yours in the future! ”

Lei Shui struck and said with a smile: "This is really a good idea, the two big brothers help me hold him!" ”

Duncan and Ginobili pretended to hold Parker, but when it suddenly went dark, the staff ran and said, "Hey! Tim, it's time to make your debut! ”

When the time came, everyone stopped joking, sorted out each other's clothes, Duncan put on a blazer and began to enter...

Lei Shui probed at this time, and through the dim light, he saw that none of the spectators in the stands had left their seats, and they were all wearing Duncan's commemorative T-shirts distributed by the team, which looked white, and the big screen above his head was playing a short documentary film of Duncan leading the team to win the championship...

With Duncan's debut, the whole arena boiled, and the audience raised the signs in their hands to express their respect for Duncan with portraits or words.

In addition to Duncan and his family, the rest of the people who can really sit in the center seat have a profound meaning to Duncan, including Duncan's college coach Odom, former teammates Robinson and Bowen, team manager Buford, as well as Bobo Old Man, Ginobili and Parker, and everyone else on the team is sitting on the sidelines.

The ceremony officially began, and the host was Sean Elliott, who first introduced Duncan's important influence on the Spurs and even the league, and praised his contributions... Listening to these compliments, Duncan only smiled faintly.

When it came to what Duncan meant to the city of San Antonio, it elicited an enthusiastic response from the San Antonio fans in the stadium, and the whole speech was interrupted several times.

The next thing is that the people sitting in the center speak in turn, each of them told about the friendship with Duncan, complained about the bits and pieces of getting along with Duncan, praised Duncan's greatness, of course, the most touching speech belongs to the old man Bobo, everyone can see that the old man Bobo couldn't help but choke himself up...

Lei Shui has also seen the jersey retirement ceremonies of many stars, but it is the first time to sit on the sidelines, unlike other people's ceremonies, Duncan's ceremony is low-key and full of human touch...

When everyone finished speaking, the scene was dark again, and the big screen showed Duncan's short documentary, which indicated that the next speaker would be the protagonist of tonight - Duncan.

The lights came on, and Elliott said loudly, "Spurs' greatest star Tim Duncan, please!" ”

At this time, the whole stadium roared and tsunami, everyone shouted Duncan's name loudly, for a great legend, Duncan stood in the middle of the court, enjoying the love of the fans for him...

"Thank you! Thank you! "Every thank you from Duncan will elicit a response from the fans, and at the ATT Center, Duncan's charisma may never be replaced.

Duncan's speech was a big wave of thanks, thanking everyone present, and teasing himself, the whole process was very short, the shortest of all the speeches, he was probably afraid of delaying the rest of the fans.

The final link is the retirement of the jersey, the curtain is gently opened above the ATT Center Arena, and the No. 21 jersey is presented in front of everyone, Duncan is the eighth player to hang the jersey here, and I believe that the No. 20 and No. 9 will appear in that place later...

After the ceremony, everyone began to leave the court, walking in the players' tunnel, Duncan said loudly: "Hey, you boys, I'm waiting for you in the garage below, you have to carry the gifts given to me to my car, if anyone misses my gifts tonight, then his future days with the Spurs will not be too easy to mix!" ”

There were rows of luxury cars parked in the underground garage, and Duncan really drove an oversized car, and the back compartment was big enough for a person to lie down.

Everyone lined up to offer their gifts as if they were worshipping, and Duncan also smiled and accepted them one by one, when Lei Shui came to Duncan with his suitcase, Duncan smiled and asked, "What is this?" ”

Lei Shui opened the box: "Tim, this is specially made for you, Chinese porcelain." ”

Everyone gathered together, and inside the box were two bowl-like porcelain, concave side up, densely tattooed with many words.

Lei Shui introduced: "You see, these two pieces of porcelain are tattooed with all your honors, one is in Chinese, and the other is in English..."

Looking at the two exquisite pieces of porcelain, Duncan couldn't put it down: "Oh! Very beautiful! These two pieces of porcelain look like bowls? ”

Lei Shui smiled and flipped the two pieces of porcelain over: "This is not a bowl, look at this side, there are two ornaments on the outside of these two pieces of porcelain, the one on the left is the number 21, which is your number, and the one on the right is your head..."

Duncan fumbled with his avatar and asked, "It's so exquisite, and this pattern looks like a basketball!" ”

Lei Shui picked up two pieces of porcelain and put them together, and when everyone looked at it, they said in unison: "A basketball!" ”

Lei Shui nodded and said, "Yes, these two pieces of porcelain together are a 1:1 scale basketball..."

Duncan took the porcelain basketball: "It's so beautiful! I like it very much! ”

Lei Shui said: "There is only this porcelain basketball in the world, in order to transport him over, we are very worried, and we have specially arranged two people to escort him over!" ”

Duncan hugged Thunder Water: "Thank you!" I have a gift for you in a few days! ”

After saying goodbye to his teammates one by one, Duncan went home with a cart of gifts, Lei Shui looked at Duncan's car and said silently in his heart: Goodbye! Forever the 21st!