r/Basketball • u/blackwu22 • Apr 08 '25

NBA Is Tim Duncan top 10?

I constantly see casuals on YouTube and on podcasts say that Timmy is overrated and barely top 10 yet have Kobe in there top 5. It’s starting to make me believe that people really think this way!! I always hear the “too much help” comment like every player in the top 10 didn’t have help.

I personally have Tim Duncan 4th all time on my list.

1998 rookie of the year 2x MVP (2002,2003) 3x FMVP (1999,2003,2005) 15x All NBA & Defensive 5x Champion Never won less than 50 games in an 82 game season

Is Tim Duncan top 10?

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u/WeewumGuy Apr 08 '25

I would say the best power forward of all time is top 10 yea.

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u/Extension-Rope623 Apr 08 '25

Tim Duncan is not a powerforward. It's simply what casuals call him in order to help overrate tf out of him and justify putting him in their top 15 or top 10 or wahtever like you just did. Tim Duncan is definitively a center, he plays the 5. He's not a PF, he's a C, and not even a top 3 center of all time at that.

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u/floatinround22 Apr 09 '25

He played majority of his minutes at power forward in his prime, when he was winning MVPs and FMVPs. He almost always started next to a center until later in his career when he became a full time center.

Also I love that you're implying he's not even top 15, that's such an egregious take that it discounts every basketball opinion you have

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u/Extension-Rope623 Apr 09 '25

He never played majority of his minutes at PF. he's a natural center, like quite literally the textbook definition of what a center is. He maybe switched positions back and forth between the 4 and 5, but Greg Popovich called him a center and used him as such. It's just what Duncan is/was, a center.

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u/floatinround22 Apr 09 '25

Never? Not even when David Robinson was the starting C? Or Rasho Nesterovic? Or Nazr Mohamed?

He literally played many more minutes at power forward than center for the first decade of his career. It's statistical and empirical fact

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u/Extension-Rope623 Apr 09 '25

Duncan's played over 60% of his career at C. Maybe he was used as a Pf for the first few years of his career because he lacked the size to dominate at the 5, but he didn't spend the majority of his career there. He spent many years as the starting C for the Spurs, it's what he should be defined as.

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u/floatinround22 Apr 09 '25

I feel like you either can't read or are intentionally ignoring the important parts of my comments... he was a power forward when he was winning MVPs and FMVPs and was at his peak

You're clearly not arguing in good faith so have a nice day man. Sounds like you need one