New Spurs center Luke Kornet has a hilarious reason for choosing No. 7 jersey, and it honors Tim Duncan

Journeyman Center Look Cornet Leave Boston Celkus In a free agency and sign with San Antonio Spears On a Four years and 41 million dollars deal. The transition from New England to Texas comes with a change in the large backup number, which was circulated in his 40th shirt with CelTics to replace two numbers, and choose No. 7 with Tottenham.

Kornet, who has a new number of Kornet, sparked a laugh at its first availability in the media with his new team.

“I didn’t wear the number before,” Cornet said. “Frankly for me, I feel that I am in life where my family and I, seven are a large number of covenant, loyalty, order and faith. This is a kind of what I called for. The secondary reason is that I hope to be a third of the player who was Tim Dunkan.”

Denkan, of course, the legend of concession. Five Fimer Hall won The American Professional League The championships with Tottenham won a pair of MVP honor and made 15 teams of all stars as one of the faces of sports throughout 2000 and 2010. He wore the No. 21 shirt – three times as Cornet – for his entire career.

If Kornet, which is 7 feet and 2 to a third of Dunkan’s functional titles, will support his name to Spears Lore.

“I love complications, factors,” said Cornet. “Break everything down.”

The $ 41 million deal is that Cornet is 10.25 million dollars on average. On the other hand, he obtained a total of $ 11 million over his first eight years as a professional, which came with New York Nixand Chicago Bullsand Cleveland Cavaliers and Milwokuki Paczz Before flourishing from the bench in Boston. Bounce The American Professional League And G League since his arrival at the scene of the accident as a free unacceptable customer in 2017.

Kornet carved the most important role in his career over the past three years with CelTics. He added to the total beginning of every season, as he reached the peak in 16 seasons in 73 games. The 29 -year -old center has achieved 6.0 points, 5.3 rebounds and a mass during the shooting of 66.8 % in 18.6 minutes for each game as a main reserve. He became partly fans in part because of his entertainment behavior.

“I am grateful all the time I spent in Boston,” Cornet said. “I feel that it was a truly appropriate place over the past few years. Grateful for all the opportunity it was. But I felt vital, and then I felt throughout the process, I felt that San Antonio was really the place where we had everything we hoped and felt.”