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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
标题不好翻，本来想保留原文，不过塞不下，就借用徐志摩的诗
在19个成功的球季之后，圣安东尼奥马刺谦逊的传奇以他一贯低调的风格退场了
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贯的风格，
让人不禁眼眶湿润: 没有仪式，没有电视访问，也不是在球星云集的 Players Tribune
上发表充满感性的文章，而是538字的媒体新闻稿，由他唯一效力过的马刺队发出的。
媒体新闻稿！这实在是太复古了，仿佛回到以前从传真机里蹦出来的时代一样，
或者... 由邮差投递过来。
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.
这也很符合大家的预期。喜爱 Duncan 的人们难以想像他会办个最后一年的全国巡回，
在让人不自在的中场庆祝活动中站在对手球员之间接受赠礼。
这不可能。我相信 Duncan 宁愿缩在球队巴士的行李厢中一整年也不要从他试着击败的
对手手中收下摇椅和电吉它。
照片集，请到原网站观赏，让人怀念的一些关键时刻
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年选秀会和 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.
拿新人王奖杯
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 庆祝第一次夺冠
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.
和上将在米兰合影
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奖杯
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连庄
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.
和上将与Pop在2003年冠军战期间的合影
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 庆祝第二个冠军
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年第三次夺冠和第三个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年冠军战G4和LBJ的对话(未来是你的？)
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年第四冠游行
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争抢篮板一幕
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年越过Kobe传球
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年西冠对雷霆一幕
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谈话
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.
带两个小孩受访
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与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.
他的离去如此安静而谦逊，一如他19年前的到来。从威克森林以第一顺位到马刺队，
他很快就适应了马刺队的风格。年轻的 Duncan 和前辈巨星 David Robinson，加上
不安份于总管位置跳下来执教的 Gregg Popovich, 以稳定著称的马刺队在1999年获得
队史第一座冠军。在当时，马刺的篮球被批评为让人想打瞌睡，太有纪律缺乏亮点，
和塑造球星的联盟格格不入。不过，没有人能否定他们就是很强。
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 的累积数据如此惊人，马刺在有 Duncan 的近20年间有着71%的胜率，如同在
退休新闻稿中提到的，这段期间的成功没有其它篮球、棒球、冰球球队比得上，
连爱国者队都显得逊色。Duncan 是唯一在同一支球队中取得超过1000胜的NBA球员。
他是唯二在联盟中达到26000分15000篮板3000阻攻的球员