V.I.’s Tim Duncan Makes a Rare Speech a Year After Being Inducted into the NBA Hall of Fame

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V.I.’s Tim Duncan Makes a Rare Speech a Year After Being Inducted into the NBA Hall of Fame

Basketball superstar Tim Duncan took the stage in mid May to offer his emotional Hall of Fame Enshrinement Speech to a socially distanced live audience that included at least three Virgin Islanders

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