Pau Gasol as Replacement for Tim Duncan; Difficult Road for the San Antonio Spurs as Big Shoes to Fill by New Star Player

SAN ANTONIO- After playing for over 20 years in the National Basketball League, the five-time NBA champion Tim Duncan will not be seen in the tight paint playing for the basketball fans anymore. He announced his retirement from the NBA after 19 seasons with San Antonio Spurs last July 11, 2016.

According to SF Gate, Tim Duncan developed into perhaps almost the greatest power forward of all time. He left countless hours of fundamentally sound videos for aspiring new players for the next generation to learn. "He was someone I always watched," said Kevon Looney, a second-year forward for the Warriors. "Every big man should watch film of him."

But as the San Antonio Spurs moved on, Coach Gregg Popovich cracked funny jokes when asked by a TNT sideline reporter David Aldridge last Tuesday night. Coach Pop said that he is finding his big man with $2,500 a day every day he doesn't show up, Fox Sports reported. The Spurs replaced him with a six-time NBA All-Star Pau Gasol and a few younger athletic players.

Pau Gasol also told Bleacher Report last week that he doesn't feel pressured at all. He said that things change but people are different. The new player Gasol added that the only thing he can do is to be true to himself and always give his best.

However, Pau Gasol also mentioned that he really wished he could've played with Tim Duncan to some extent and have Duncan around in practice because he believed that even at this point in his career, he can learn a lot from Tim Duncan.

Meanwhile, every other fan wearing a Spurs jersey in the city appears to be holding onto the long-time favorite player No. 21, Tim Duncan. Regardless of the champ's retirement, his yellowed poster photos is still hanging proudly in storage rooms deep in the AT&T Center. No single person has been bringing up to Pau Gasol how Duncan used to do things or how great he was at his game.

Nobody can truly replace Tim Duncan, but the Spurs are turning to Pau Gasol for help https://t.co/XTMLbw3zXr pic.twitter.com/sj0X7zueP6

— NYT Sports (@NYTSports) July 14, 2016