I've seen The Baron's Dunk and I've seen Nash-tastic's nose, but the best thing I've seen in the Second Round of the NBA Playoffs has been the play of Tim Duncan.

As I sat down Saturday night to watch the Suns/Spurs match-up, I fully expected the best part to be Steve Nash running around the San Antonio defense dropping dimes and hitting jumpers. While that did happen quite a bit, the best part was the dominating performance of Tim Duncan.

Duncan's 33 point, 19 rebound performance including bank shots, spot up jumpers, drop step lay-in's and even a dunk or two......all while having Kurt Thomas and Amare Stoudemire drapped over him like a guy trying to get laid by his date on Prom Night. It was quite amazing to watch as there was nothing the Suns defenders could do to stop Duncan.

I knew a lot of people had said after the 2006 Season that Duncan was on the downside of his career as Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili were stepping up to become offensive forces for the Spurs. Little did I know that those words, along with the healing of his plantar fascitis, would help motivate Duncan into having another consistent regular season (20.0 ppg, 10.6 rpb) and an extraordinary 2007 Playoffs (31.6 ppg, 15.3 rpg against the Suns).

Duncan already has three NBA Titles, nine First Team All-NBA selections and two MVP Awards, but he doesn't look to be slowing down in these playoffs as he's been the best player.

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