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Blucas and fellow senior captain Randolph Childress quickly devised a change of plans after playing only one session of pick-up ball with Duncan.

“You could just tell,” Blucas said. “He was already playing like he belonged. He was so even-keeled and so competitive at the same time. I’ll never forget looking at Randolph Childress and saying, ‘Hey, we’ve got to go tell (coach Dave) Odom not to redshirt this kid.’ We went down there and just told him.”

Duncan would start 32 of 33 games as a freshman at Wake Forest. That one season fighting alongside the power forward made a powerful impression on Blucas.

“I wanted to see where he came from, the lessons, morals and all the things that he applied to the game,” he said. “After that time being around him, I immediately said to him, ‘I really want to go and see what made the man. I want to go down to St. Croix for a week or so and see how this all started.’ ”

So, after graduation, Blucas booked the trip to the island.

Blucas belly laughs now at the Lonnie Walker IV vomit story, because it reminds him of a similar tale from the visit to St. Croix that highlights Duncan’s quick and witty sense of humor, attributes that pay dividends in combating the grind of a long NBA season.

“It’s so Tim to do exactly that,” Blucas said. “He’ll do one of the more humbling things on the planet, and then he’ll either crack a funny joke you didn’t expect or tell you to man up, get back on the court and start playing. It’s like, ‘O.K., you threw up. I cleaned it up. Let’s keep going.’”

While snorkeling with Duncan on a sun-drenched summer day in St. Croix, Blucas unwittingly stepped on a sea urchin and into his own Lonnie Walker-like story.

“It’s stinging like hell,” Blucas said.

So, when they return to the beach, Duncan calmly ex

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