Tim Duncan reportedly won’t be a San Antonio Spurs assistant coach in 2020-21. Here’s the San Antonio Express-News:
Tim Duncan is headed back into retirement.
After spending the pandemic-shortened 2019-20 NBA campaign working as an assistant on the Spurs’ bench, Duncan has decided not to return for another tour of duty alongside Gregg Popovich.
The decision did not come as a surprise to those in the Spurs’ organization, who understood the 44-year-old Duncan would be a short-term addition when the franchise cornerstone shocked the NBA world by pausing his retirement to join the staff in the summer of 2019.
“Something tells me it’s not going to be his passion for life,” Popovich said at the start of last season.
It won’t be a surprise if Duncan does continue with the Spurs in some way, perhaps on a part-time basis. Not necessarily immediately, but down the road.
