“He doesn’t judge people,” Popovich said of Duncan. “He tries to figure out who they are, what they do, and what their strengths are. He just has a very good sense about people. When we learned that about him…we knew we were going to be able to bring almost anybody here, unless they were a serial killer, and he was going to be able to figure out what to do with them. Tim Duncan touching you on the back of the head or putting his arm around you, or leaning over and saying something to you during a timeout, is big. He knows that the attention from him is just monstrous in their development and
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