American basketball player

Tim Duncan

Timothy Theodore Duncan is an American former professional basketball player and coach. He spent his entire 19-year career with the San Antonio Spurs in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Nicknamed "the Big Fundamental", he is widely considered to be the greatest power forward of all time and one of the greatest players in NBA history, and was a central contributor to the franchise's success during the 2000s and 2010s. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2020 and named to the NBA 75th Anniversary Team in 2021.

Born

1976

April 25

Died

Living

Era

1970s

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Tim, in brief

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Key dates

1976 Born

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What else happened on this day, through history

-404 Admiral Lysander and King Pausanias of Sparta blockade Athens and bring the Peloponnesian War to a successful conclusion.
775 The Battle of Bagrevand puts an end to an Armenian rebellion against the Abbasid Caliphate. Muslim control over the South Caucasus is solidified and its Islamization begins, while several major Armenian nakharar families lose power and their remnants flee to the Byzantine Empire.
799 After mistreatment and disfigurement by the citizens of Rome, Pope Leo III flees to the Frankish court of king Charlemagne at Paderborn for protection.
1464 A Yorkist army under the Baron Montagu defeats a Lancastrian army under the Duke of Somerset in the battle of Hedgeley Moor during the Wars of the Roses.

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The world in 1976

When Tim arrived

april 1 Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak found Apple Computer, Inc.
april 11 The Apple I is created.
april 13 The United States Treasury Department reintroduces the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson's 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration.
april 13 Forty workers die in the Lapua Cartridge Factory explosion, the deadliest industrial accident in modern Finnish history.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on April 25

Daniel MacPherson 1980– Australian actor and television host Dominique Strauss-Kahn 1949– French economist, lawyer, and politician, French Minister of Finance Gedhun Choekyi Nyima 1989– the 11th Panchen Lama Jason Lee 1970– American skateboarder, actor, comedian and producer Jay Park 1987– American-South Korean singer-songwriter and dancer Johan Cruyff 1947–2016 Dutch footballer and manager (died 2016) Kojo Tovalou Houénou 1887–1936 Beninese lawyer and critic (died 1936) Maggie Rogers 1994– American musician Oliver Cromwell 1599–1658 English general and politician, Lord Protector of Great Britain (died 1658)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1976

Alan Carr 1976– English comedian, actor, and screenwriter Alan Faneca 1976– American football player Anna Friel 1976– English actress Antoine Walker 1976– American basketball player Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira 1976– Brazilian mixed martial artist and boxer Brett Kimmorley 1976– Australian rugby league player and sportscaster Chauncey Billups 1976– American basketball player Dan Cloutier 1976– Canadian ice hockey player and coach Daniel Whiston 1976– English figure skater

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