The San Antonio Spurs’ best news of the off-season didn’t come from the draft or free agency. On Monday the team confirmed that Tim Duncan will join Gregg Popovich’s staff as an assistant coach, to the joy of the entire fanbase.
Duncan, who has been retired since 2016, has been around the practice facility helping out as their “coach of whatever he feels like” for a while, but the news of his hiring came as a surprise. It seems that greatest power forward of all time was enjoying retirement to the fullest before deciding to rejoin the franchise on an official capacity.