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Tim Duncan Departs, Brilliantly, Without Vanity
The San Antonio Spurs’ humble legend exits just as he played,
despite 19 seasons of categorical success
By JASON GAY
July 11, 2016 1:46 p.m. ET
標題不好翻，本來想保留原文，不過塞不下，就借用徐志摩的詩
在19個成功的球季之後，聖安東尼奧馬刺謙遜的傳奇以他一貫低調的風格退場了
Tim Duncan retired Monday morning, and his retirement announcement was
so appropriately Tim Duncan-like it almost made one misty: not a ceremony,
or a television interview, or a gooey letter in Derek Jeter’s star-cozy
Players Tribune, but a 538-word press release, from the only NBA team
he ever played for, the San Antonio Spurs.
A press release! It was so modest and charmingly retro it may as well
have arrived by fax, or better yet, snail mail.
Tim Duncan 在星期一早上退休了，而他的宣告方式是如此地有他一貫的風格，
讓人不禁眼眶濕潤: 沒有儀式，沒有電視訪問，也不是在球星雲集的 Players Tribune
上發表充滿感性的文章，而是538字的媒體新聞稿，由他唯一效力過的馬刺隊發出的。
媒體新聞稿！這實在是太復古了，彷彿回到以前從傳真機裏蹦出來的時代一樣，
或者... 由郵差投遞過來。
Would anyone have wanted it any other way? Duncan’s exit was always going to
happen like this. No one who loved Duncan ever thought he’d engineer a
final-season vanity lap through the league, standing through awkward midcourt
celebrations among opponents bearing unwanted gifts. No way. I believe Duncan
would have rather spent a season curled in the baggage hold of the team bus
than collecting personalized rocking chairs and electric guitars from teams
he tried to bury.
這也很符合大家的預期。喜愛 Duncan 的人們難以想像他會辦個最後一年的全國巡迴，
在讓人不自在的中場慶祝活動中站在對手球員之間接受贈禮。
這不可能。我相信 Duncan 寧願縮在球隊巴士的行李廂中一整年也不要從他試著擊敗的
對手手中收下搖椅和電吉它。
照片集，請到原網站觀賞，讓人懷念的一些關鍵時刻
Photos: Tim Duncan Retires After 19 Seasons With San Antonio Spurs
Here’s a look back at some of the key moments in the illustrious 19-year
NBA career of San Antonio Spurs forward Tim Duncan.
Tim Duncan shakes hands with NBA Commissioner David Stern at the 1997 NBA
Draft after being selected No. 1 overall by the San Antonio Spurs.
Duncan played all 19 seasons with San Antonio.
1997年選秀會和 Stern 握手
Tim Duncan holds up his NBA Rookie of the Year trophy prior to a game against
the Phoenix Suns in San Antonio, Texas, on April 27, 1998.
拿新人王獎盃
Tim Duncan, right, and Sean Elliott celebrate the Spurs’ first NBA
Championship after San Antonio won game five of the 1999 NBA Finals
against the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden on June 25, 1999.
1999年和 Elliott 慶祝第一次奪冠
Tim Duncan and his Spurs teammate David Robinson, right, play with the ball
in front of Milan's gothic cathedral known as the Duomo, in Milan, Italy,
on Oct. 13, 1999. The Spurs were in Milan to participate in the McDonald's
Championship, a six-team international basketball tournament.
和上將在米蘭合影
Tim Duncan shakes hands with NBA commissioner David Stern as he is presented
the Maurice Podoloff Trophy after he was named the NBA's Most Valuable Player
for the 2001-02 season on May 9, 2002. It was the first of two league MVP
awards for Duncan.
2002年第一次拿MVP獎盃
San Antonio Spurs forward Tim Duncan waits to receive the Maurice Podoloff
Trohphy after he was named the NBA's Most Valuable Player for the second
straight season, in San Antonio on May 4, 2003.
2003年MVP連莊
David Robinson, Tim Duncan, and head coach Gregg Popovich of the San Antonio
Spurs watch during practice before the NBA Finals on June 5, 2003 at the
SBC Center in San Antonio.
和上將與Pop在2003年冠軍戰期間的合影
Tim Duncan, center, celebrates with teammates Steve Smith, left, and
Kevin Willis after the Spurs beat the New Jersey Nets, 88-77, to win the
franchise’s second NBA Championship on June 15, 2003.
2003年和 Steve Smith, Kevin Willis 慶祝第二個冠軍
Tim Duncan holds the Larry O'Brien Trophy and the Finals MVP Trophy after
defeating the Detroit Pistons in Game 7 of the 2005 NBA Finals on June 23, 2005.
It was Duncan’s third finals MVP award.
2005年第三次奪冠和第三個FMVP
Tim Duncan looks to the bench during a game against the New York Knicks on
Dec. 21, 2005 at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
2005年的背影
Tim Duncan talks with LeBron James during a break in the action in Game 4 of
the NBA Finals on June 14, 2007 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland.
The Spurs swept the Cavaliers for the franchise’s fourth NBA title.
2007年冠軍戰G4和LBJ的對話(未來是你的？)
Tim Duncan and Bruce Bowen, right, wave to the fans during the championship
parade down the San Antonio River walk on June 17, 2007 in San Antonio.
2007年第四冠遊行
Tim Duncan battles Detroit Pistons forward Antonio McDyess (24) and forward
Rasheed Wallace, left, for a rebound on Jan. 10, 2008. Duncan finished his
career with 15,091 rebounds, good enough for sixth on NBA’s all-time list.
2008年和Rasheed McDyess爭搶籃板一幕
Tim Duncan passes around Los Angeles Lakers' Kobe Bryant on Jan. 12, 2010.
Bryant also retired earlier this year after 20 seasons and five championships
with the Lakers.
2010年越過Kobe傳球
Tim Duncan goes up for a shot against Thabo Sefolosha of the Oklahoma City
Thunder in Game 2 of the 2014 Western Conference Finals on May 21, 2014.
Duncan never missed the playoffs during his 19-year career.
2014年西冠對雷霆一幕
Tim Duncan and Kawhi Leonard talk during Game 5 of the 2014 Western Conference
Finals on May 29, 2014.
2014年西冠和Kawhi談話
Tim Duncan celebrates his fifth and final championship after defeating the
Miami Heat in Game 5 of the 2014 NBA Finals on June 15, 2014 in San Antonio.
2014年第五次封王
Tim Duncan speaks to the media with his children Sydney and Draven after
clinching the Spurs’ fifth NBA championship.
帶兩個小孩受訪
San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich, left, talks with Tim Duncan
during a game against the Milwaukee Bucks on Dec. 2, 2015, in San Antonio.
Duncan與Pop
He went quietly, humbly, much as he arrived, out of Wake Forest the first pick
in the draft 19 seasons ago to the Spurs, who soon became a team transformed.
San Antonio was a factory of consistency, winning the first of five NBA
championships in 1999, a young Duncan pairing with a towering predecessor,
David Robinson, and a coach, Gregg Popovich, who put himself on the bench
after leaving the general manager’s office. Back then, Spurs basketball was
unfairly maligned as bit of a snooze, disciplined and unflashy, a departure
from a star-driven game. But nobody denied they were ruthlessly good.
他的離去如此安靜而謙遜，一如他19年前的到來。從威克森林以第一順位到馬刺隊，
他很快就適應了馬刺隊的風格。年輕的 Duncan 和前輩巨星 David Robinson，加上
不安份於總管位置跳下來執教的 Gregg Popovich, 以穩定著稱的馬刺隊在1999年獲得
隊史第一座冠軍。在當時，馬刺的籃球被批評為讓人想打瞌睡，太有紀律缺乏亮點，
和塑造球星的聯盟格格不入。不過，沒有人能否定他們就是很強。
Duncan’s collected numbers are just absurd. The Spurs won 71% of their
games in Duncan’s near-two decades, a run of success that team retirement
press release pointed out has been unmatched in basketball, baseball, hockey,
or even by those Patriots. Duncan’s the only NBA player to ever be part of
1,000 or more wins with one team. He is one of only two players in league
history to record 26,000 or more points, 15,000 rebounds, and 3,000
blocked shots. The other was Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who was pretty good himself.
There are 15 All-NBA team selections, 15 All-Defensive team selections,
two regular season MVPs, three Finals MVPs…
We could go on. But it would only mortify Duncan.
Duncan 的累積數據如此驚人，馬刺在有 Duncan 的近20年間有著71%的勝率，如同在
退休新聞稿中提到的，這段期間的成功沒有其它籃球、棒球、冰球球隊比得上，
連愛國者隊都顯得遜色。Duncan 是唯一在同一支球隊中取得超過1000勝的NBA球員。
他是唯二在聯盟中達到26000分15000籃板3000阻攻的球員