In the delivery room with Tim Duncan

This essay originally appeared at Hardwood Paroxysm, when HP was hosted by Fansided. However, the internet is amorphous and most of that HP content is no longer available and I may never write a basketball-related article more meaningful to me than this one.

Art by Daniel J. Rowell

I am late in writing about Tim Duncan’s retirement, because my daughter was born a week early, on Monday, July 11th (2016). She did not come…