Above: St Croix native and five-time NBA champion Tim Duncan
By the Caribbean Journal staff
Tim Duncan isn’t going anywhere.
The St Croix native, who recently won his fifth NBA championship, will be returning to the San Antonio Spurs for his 18th NBA season.
The team announced Monday that the 38-year-old Duncan had exercised his player option for the 2014-2015 season, putting to rest any notion that he would be retiring.
Duncan helped the Spurs to a dominant 4-1 series win over the Miami Heat in this month’s NBA Finals.
The Christiansted native is one of five players in the history of the NBA to win five championships and five MVPs (either NBA Finals or regular season), along with Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Bill Russell and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
Duncan leads all active players in career wins, with 898.