Instead, the duo of Duncan and Leonard fuels this Spurs team at both ends. Duncan is a candidate for All-NBA Defense and Leonard was this year's Defensive Player of the Year.

The San Antonio Spurs will play short-handed once again with Tim Duncan and Kawhi Leonard missing Monday's game against the Grizzlies. Manu Ginobili is expected to miss weeks.

The Spurs are hoping Carter Bryant gives them a new scoring edge for this upcoming season. Bryant immediately showed them a ...

If titles are to return to San Antonio, it will have more to do with Victor Wembanyama and Dylan Harper than memories of Tim ...

And as the San Antonio Spurs prepare for life in the post-Tim Duncan era, Kawhi Leonard says there's one thing that he misses above all else now that Timmy is gone: Indeed, sense of humor is one ...

Kawhi Leonard, as the Spur with the ... The Spurs are hardly new to the balance involved in maintaining aging players, ... He can adjust the ways Duncan, Parker and Ginobili ...

Popovich predicted Kawhi's progress. Duncan was still the Spurs' driving force when Leonard arrived in San Antonio in 2011.

In 2014, Leonard made his first All-Defensive team and was named Finals MVP when the Spurs beat the Miami Heat, the franchise’s last of five championships with Popovich and Duncan.

It doesn’t take Tim Duncan long to recount the most drawn-out conversation he has ever had with Kawhi Leonard. “I don’t think it’s ever surpassed 10 or 15 seconds,” Duncan said. The ...

Spurs disrespect Kawhi Leonard but avoid bad press. ... Duncan, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili, the Spurs have also retired the jerseys of Bruce Bowen (career 6.1 PPG), ...

Leonard spurned the Spurs by demanding a trade and sitting out all but nine games in the 2017-18 season. He was seen as the next Tim Duncan, a steady franchise centerpiece who was all about ...

In 2011, Duncan was the role model next to Kawhi Leonard. Regardless of Leonard's inevitable exit from the Spurs , San Antonio achieved championship success in the twilight seasons of Duncan's career.