Tim Duncan, the man who changed the game for all “big men”. Duncan, standing 6’11, was the first overall pick by the San Antonio Spurs in the late 1990’s. After, signing he spent his entire career bullying the other teams for the Spurs. On April 25, 1976 Ione and William Duncan had a baby boy name Timothy Theodore Duncan. Growing up he loved to swim and dreamt of becoming an Olympic-level swimmer. In 1989 Hurricane Hugo destroyed the island's only Olympic-sized swimming pool. Duncan was forced to swim in the ocean and he quickly lost his love for swimming because of his fear of sharks, the only other thing Tim was good at was basketball. He started to play basketball in ninth grade, at St. Dunstan's Episcopal. In 1993 he told the world that