San Antonio Spurs Head Coach Gregg Popovich held a press conference on Tuesday (12 July) in San Antonio to discuss Tim Duncan's career and retirement.

SOUNDBITE (English): Gregg Popovich, San Antonio Spurs Head Coach (says where he'd be without Tim Duncan) "You know I'd be in the Bud league, the Budweiser league someplace in America fat and still trying to play basketball or coach basketball but he's why I'm standing here, he's made livings for hundreds of us staff and coaches over the years and n ever said a word just came to work every day came early stayed late was there for every single person from the top of the roster to the bottom of the roster because that's who he was so in all those respects he's irreplaceable."

SOUNDBITE (English): Gregg Popovich, San Antonio Spurs Head Coach (what made Duncan the happiest) "At this point I can tell you the thing that made him the happiest I'm speaking for him now and I hope I'm accurate but I think the thing that made him happiest beyond the fans and his teammates and all that sort of thing, was the time he spent with his two children before games on the bench over there that's who he was that's who he still is."

SOUNDBITE (English): Gregg Popovich, San Antonio Spurs Head Coach (what Duncan's father told him about Tim before he died) "You know he's the same person as far as his values and opinions of himself as the day he came in I can still remember before his father passed away looking at me in the eye and saying that 'I'm gonna hold you responsible to make sure that when he's done he's the same person he is now' and in that respect he is, he's grown as a person as we all do through experiences, but his inner core, he was over himself when he came in, and after all these accolades and the success he's still gotten over himself hasn't changed a lick."