{"id":19930,"date":"2014-06-23T17:34:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T17:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/report-duncan-to-return-for-2014-15\/"},"modified":"2014-06-23T23:50:03","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T23:50:03","slug":"report-duncan-to-return-for-2014-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/report-duncan-to-return-for-2014-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Duncan to return for 2014-15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Antonio, TX (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Tim Duncan is on board for making a run at a sixth NBA championship.<\/p>\n<p>The legendary San Antonio Spurs forward has decided to exercise the option on his contract for the upcoming 2014-15 season, the team announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Speculation had existed that the 38-year-old Duncan was considering retirement following the Spurs&#8217; ousting of the Miami Heat in the recent NBA Finals. But according to a Yahoo! Sports report released earlier Monday, the two-time league MVP will instead revisit his playing future after next season.<\/p>\n<p>Duncan, who is scheduled to earn $10.3 million in the final year of his current deal, has remained a highly effective player in the twilight of his career. The 14-time All-Star averaged 15.1 points, 9.7 rebounds and 1.9 blocks over 74 regular-season games in 2013-14, helping the Spurs to the franchise&#8217;s fifth NBA title since 1999.<\/p>\n<p>During San Antonio&#8217;s latest championship run, Duncan averaged 16.3 points, 9.1 rebounds and 1.9 assists while starting all 23 playoff games.<\/p>\n<p>The No. 1 overall pick of the 1997 NBA Draft, Duncan has spent his entire 17- year career with San Antonio and is the Spurs&#8217; all-time leader in games played (1,254), points (24,904) and rebounds (13,940).<\/p>\n<p>Duncan is one of five players, along with Hall of Famers Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Bill Russell and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, to win five NBA titles and five MVP awards for either the regular season or the league Finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Antonio, TX (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Tim Duncan is on board for making a run at a sixth NBA championship. The legendary San Antonio Spurs forward has decided to exercise the option on his contract for the upcoming 2014-15 season, the team announced Monday. Speculation had existed that the 38-year-old Duncan was considering retirement following the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6,5,7],"class_list":["post-19930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-spurs","tag-spurs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19937,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19930\/revisions\/19937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}