Deacon Sports Xtra: Tim Duncan’s Basketball Legacy
5/17/2021 12:15:00 PM | Men's Basketball
After leading Wake Forest Basketball to arguably its best four-year run in program history in the mid-90s, Tim Duncan enjoyed a 19-season NBA career with the San Antonio Spurs, earning All-Star status 15 times while winning five NBA Championships.
He was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame Saturday as part of a nine-member 2020 class that included Kobe Bryant, Kevin Garnett, Tamika Catchings, Patrick Baumann, Kim Mulkey, Barbara Stevens, Eddie Sutton and Rudy Tomjanovich.
Considered by many to be the greatest power forward to ever play the game of basketball, here's where Tim Duncan has left his mark on the Wake Forest Basketball record books:
College Awards
NBA Awards
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He was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame Saturday as part of a nine-member 2020 class that included Kobe Bryant, Kevin Garnett, Tamika Catchings, Patrick Baumann, Kim Mulkey, Barbara Stevens, Eddie Sutton and Rudy Tomjanovich.
Tim Duncan is now officially an enshrined member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. #20HoopClass pic.twitter.com/uARENFMwSA
— Basketball HOF (@Hoophall) May 15, 2021
Considered by many to be the greatest power forward to ever play the game of basketball, here's where Tim Duncan has left his mark on the Wake Forest Basketball record books:
- Wake Forest record during Duncan Era 97-26 (78.9% win percentage)
- Fourth-leading career scorer with 2,117 points
- Tied for seventh-best scoring season in 1996-97 with 645 points
- Second-leading career rebounder with 1,570 boards
- Single-game defensive rebounding leader, with 19 against Oklahoma State in the 1995 NCAA Tournament
- Owns the third, seventh, eighth and 17th-best season rebounding totals, coming in third with 457 boards as a senior in 1996-97
- Third in career field goals with 790
- Fifth in career field goal percentage, hitting 57.7%
- Third in career free throw attempts with 755
- Finished 14th in career assists with 128
- First in career blocked shots with 481. Anthony Teachy is second with 203.
- Has 15 of the 24 best single-game performances for blocked shots, peaking at second with 10 against Maryland in 1996
- Owns the top four individual seasons for blocked shots, topping with 135 in 1994-95.
- First in career minutes played, with 4,496
- Tied for sixth in career games played with 128
- Most minutes played in a season, with 1,216 in 1994-95 as a sophomore
- Most career games won at 97
- Most career games having played every minute at 30
- Tied with Travis McKie for starting 127 games
- First with 97 career double-doubles
- First in double-doubles in a season, with 29 as a senior in 1996-97
- Also hold the mark for 17 consecutive double-doubles in that same season
- Duncan joins Dickie Hermic and Len Chappell as the only Demon Deacons to average a double-double in three seasons (Hermic reached that mark four seasons).
- Achieved the only official triple-double in Wake Forest history with 14 points, 15 rebounds and 10 blocked shots against Maryland on Jan. 13, 1996
- Duncan had 10 double-doubles in 11 NCAA Tournament games played
- Duncan had a blocked shot in 127 of his 128 career college games
Where it all started 🎩
— ACC Network (@accnetwork) May 15, 2021
Tim Duncan @WakeMBB #20HoopClass pic.twitter.com/wO3GtWmIwx
College Awards
- ACC All-Freshman 1994
- All-ACC First Team 1995, 96, 97
- ACC Player of the Week - combined 11 times through four seasons
- ACC Rookie of the Week
- ACC Player of the Year 1996, 97
- NABC All-District 1995, 96, 97
- 1995 Third Team All-American
- 1996, 97 First Team All-American
- NABC Defensive Player of the Year 1995, 96, 97
- AP Player of the Year 1997
- NABC Player of the Year 1997
- Naismith Player of the Year 1997
- Rupp Trophy 1997
- Sporting News Player of the Year 1997
- USBWA Player of the Year 1997
- John R. Wooden Award 1997
- Wake Forest Sports Hall of Fame, 2009 Class
- College Basketball Hall of Fame, 2017 Class
Thank you, Tim 👏#GoDeacs🎩 #WakeForever #20HoopClass pic.twitter.com/9O44a2gqqa
— Wake Basketball (@WakeMBB) May 10, 2021
NBA Awards
- NBA Rookie of the Year 1998
- All-NBA First Team 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2013
- All-NBA Second Team 2006, 2008, 2009
- All-NBA Third Team 2010, 2015
- NBA All-Defensive First Team 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2008
- NBA All-Defensive Second Team 1998, 2004, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2015
- NBA MVP 2002, 2003
- NBA Finals MVP 1999, 2003, 2005
1️⃣ of 1️⃣#GoDeacs 🎩#WakeForever #20HoopClass
— Wake Basketball (@WakeMBB) May 15, 2021
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