Former San Antonio Spurs superstar Tim Dunk has decided to step down as the team’s full-time assistant coach, a source confirmed to a New York Times report.
Damon, part of the 2020 class of Basketball Hall of Fame, spent last season on the staff of coach Greg Popovich. However, he did not join Spurs in the Walt Disney World Bubble for a resumption of the NBA, leaving Lamarcus Eldridge in San Antonio to help rehabilitate him from shoulder surgery.
Popovich repeatedly credited Duncan as the key factor in creating and maintaining the culture that helped the Spurs win five NBA championships. Dunk spent his 19-year career in San Antonio, earning 15 All-Star appearances, two MVPs, three finals MVPs and one Rookie of the Year award.
For the first three years after Duncan’s retirement, he was not an official member of the Spurs’ coaching staff, but made frequent visits to the team’s practice facility. After Duncan agreed to become assistant coach, Popovich hinted that he did not expect to have a long tenure on the all-time great bench.
“Something tells me it doesn’t become his passion for life, but it will be great this year,” Popovich said on Spurs’ media day before last season.
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