The ageless wonder that is Tim Duncan put up 28 points and grabbed 11 rebounds in the Spurs’ much-needed 111–107 overtime win over the Clippers on Wednesday night to even their first-round series with Los Angeles at one game apiece. Along the way, he passed the 5,000-point career postseason scoring mark—just the fifth player in NBA history to do so.
The soon-to-be 39-year-old trails only Michael Jordan, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Kobe Bryant, and Shaquille O'Neal on the all-time scoreboard. It’s a star-studded list that was once led by Kareem, who retired 26 years ago with a more than 1,000-point lead on Julius Irving, in second.
Abdul-Jabbar was actually the original ageless wonder. Playing effectively just past his 42nd birthday, the NBA’s all-time leading regular-season scorer was still the focal point of L.A.’s Showtime offense through 1986—the year he turned 39.
