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Sports Stars with Heart
Tim Duncan: Champion on And Off the Court
Explores the life and career of contemporary sports stars highlighting not only their athletic feats, but also their charitable efforts outside of the sports world through easy-reading text and full-color photos.
128 pages, Library Binding
First published December 1, 2006
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November 27, 2017
Tim Duncan grew up as a swimmer in the U.S. Virgin Islands. At the age of thirteen, a hurricane ripped through his hometown ruining all the swimming pools and leaving Duncan with a choice. Either he could swim in the ocean or give up his swimming dream. Duncan decided to give up swimming and switched his focus to basketball. The day before his fourteenth birthday his mother Ione died of breast cancer and Tim had always promised her that he would graduate from college. Basketball brought Tim Duncan to the United States and allowed him to live a long a luxurious life.
December 3, 2011
This book is an autobiography on the NBA basketball player Tim Duncan. The reason that this book was written is to tell not only about how good Duncan is on the court, but also how he contributes to other people in his community.
The theme of this book starts with how Duncan lived in the U.S. Virgin Islands, and how he became a basketball player at Wake Forest in college, and then with the San Antonio Spurs professionally. Another main theme of this book is how Duncan serves with his community and his different organizations. His charity is the Tim Duncan Foundation. This organization is all about rewarding kids for showing leadership abilities and for making responsible decisions in their homes and communities.
The book was an autobiography because it told the story of someone’s life.
The book was different from a different autobiography that I have read on him, because this one told a lot more about how Tim isn’t a flashy player but when his teammates need him, he will be there. I liked how the book told a different part of his life, and there wasn’t much I didn’t like but it was an autobiography so it was boring some of the time. Overall it was a pretty good book.
The theme of this book starts with how Duncan lived in the U.S. Virgin Islands, and how he became a basketball player at Wake Forest in college, and then with the San Antonio Spurs professionally. Another main theme of this book is how Duncan serves with his community and his different organizations. His charity is the Tim Duncan Foundation. This organization is all about rewarding kids for showing leadership abilities and for making responsible decisions in their homes and communities.
The book was an autobiography because it told the story of someone’s life.
The book was different from a different autobiography that I have read on him, because this one told a lot more about how Tim isn’t a flashy player but when his teammates need him, he will be there. I liked how the book told a different part of his life, and there wasn’t much I didn’t like but it was an autobiography so it was boring some of the time. Overall it was a pretty good book.
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