For the first time in almost two decades, San Antonio will be heading into training camp, which starts Tuesday, without Duncan.
The Spurs kicked off Monday with their media day and Head Coach Gregg Popovich was already in mid-season form.
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Popovich joked that Duncan is being fined daily — “$2,500 a day, every day that he does not show up.”
But for LaMarcus Aldridge whom is heading into his second season with San Antonio, it did not have much of an impact on him as it did with the others that were able to be around Duncan for so many years.