Is Tim Duncan the best power forward in National Basketball Association history?

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver released the following statement regarding Tim Duncan’s announcement today. They won five championships and he was awarded as the MVP in seasons 2001-02 and 2002-03. Since drafting Duncan, the Spurs won five championships and posted a 1,072-438 regular season record, giving the team a.710 winning percentage, which is the best 19-year stretch in NBA history and was the best in all of the NBA, NFL, NHL and Major League Baseball over the last 19 years. He is the only player to win titles in three different decades, and just the third to win more than 1,000 career regular season games (Abdul-Jabbar and Robert Parish). In 2001-2002 he led the National Basketball Association in total rebounds with 12.7 per game.

But Duncan was also a dominant defensive player who was still making plays in his final season. This past season, Duncan average just 8.6 points, a career low by almost five points per game.

With 15,091 rebounds (10.8 per game), Duncan is sixth on the all-time list. Despite that, Duncan was the face of the franchise and provided a lot of leadership for the team.

Duncan was the No. 1 overall pick out of Wake Forest in 1997 and teamed with Gregg Popovich, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili to make the Spurs the most enduring success story in modern American sports.

While Duncan averaged 19 points and 10.8 rebounds per game for his career, his numbers were dwindling over the last few seasons as he approached 40.