With than a month to go before the start of NBA training camp, Tim Duncan remains silent as he tries to put his messy divorce proceedings behind him.
Duncan and his wife of 12 years, Amy, were formally divorced late last month in a secretive, closed-door session agreed to by a district court judge to keep the media at a distance.
Court records seem to clearly indicate the one-time college sweethearts had truly grown apart over the years, with her hurling accusations of him being gay or bixsexual before the court. Duncan also admitted that he once hired a private investigator to tail her because he believed she might be cheating on him.
According to the San Antonio Express, Duncan also later sought the court's assistance and authority in having Gilbert R. Urbano Jr., the man reportedly romantically linked to his then-wife, banned from being around the couple's two young children. Still multiple other media outlets reported Amy Duncan even claimed another man actually lived under the same roof as she and Duncan during the first two years of their marriage.
With the divorce now finally over, the hope is the 37-year-old perennial All-Star will now be able to put it all behind him. Still, those from among Spurs Nations have to be concerned what effect having his life play out on a public stage might have on the ultra-sensitive and private Hall of Fame bound baller.
For most of the summer, and particularly since the divorce, Duncan has kept a low profile. One of his few public outings came last week when former two-time boxing champ Jesse James Lejia tweeted a photo of a training session he was holding with Duncan captioned "the greatest power forward ever! TD and I after boxing workout for an hour."
Worthy praise aside, Duncan's silence has already resulted in more of his teammates being put in the unenviable position of being asked to speak for him.
Appearing on Power 105.1's The Breakfast Club Radio Show in New York earlier this summer, Spurs teammate Danny Green was asked if he thought his teammate might be gay.
"I definitely haven't suspected anything," Green told hosts. "He's going through some stuff and that's what happens when you go through a divorce. It gets ugly. Timmy is Tim. I'm not going to look at him any differently."
No financial details stemming from the couple's split have been made public, but throughout the proceedings Duncan's attorneys stressed he planned to strictly enforce the terms of a prenuptial agreement the couple signed at the time of their union.
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