Is Tim Duncan a Bears fan?

What has Tim Duncan said about the Chicago Bears?

No statement from Duncan himself is cited, so the claim rests on what others have written. The firsthand account comes from Mike Monroe, who covered the Spurs for Bleacher Report and wrote on December 17, 2016: "Through 12 years covering the Spurs in San Antonio, I developed a level of comfort with Duncan, enhanced by our common love for the Chicago Bears." That makes Duncan a reported Bears fan, vouched for by a writer who spent a dozen years covering his team, rather than a fan who has said so himself.

Does Tim Duncan follow the Chicago Bears?

The Bears themselves say he does. In a piece on the team's site dated November 13, 2019, the club wrote that the longtime NBA star "has followed the Bears closely from afar." The same item tells a story from the 2006 season: when a Bears playoff game went into overtime, Duncan made the San Antonio Spurs team flight wait to take off until the Bears game ended. The game in question was played on January 14, 2007. Monroe's column from December 2016 places the fandom as still current at that point, and the Bears were still listing him in 2019. Nothing has been checked since.

Did Tim Duncan grow up a Bears fan?

The sourcing doesn't say when it started. Duncan was born on April 25, 1976, and raised in Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, and he later played at Wake Forest (1993 to 1997) before the San Antonio Spurs took him first overall in 1997. None of those places is Chicago, and no source ties his Bears loyalty to a hometown, a school or a move. The Bears won Super Bowl XX in 1986 (the 1985 season), the year he turned 10, but that is a date on the calendar and nothing in the sources links it to his fandom. What can be said is that the earliest dated sign of it is the 2006 flight story, from the middle of his Spurs career.

Which other athletes are Bears fans?

Dwyane Wade has said it in his own words, and Candace Parker has been reported as a Bears fan.

Questions people ask

Is Tim Duncan a Bears fan?

Reportedly, yes. Bleacher Report's Mike Monroe wrote in December 2016 of "our common love for the Chicago Bears," and the Bears' own site said in 2019 that Duncan has followed the team closely.

When did Tim Duncan become a Bears fan?

No source says when it began. The earliest dated sign is the 2006 season, when he held the Spurs' team flight until a Bears playoff game finished.

Did Tim Duncan grow up a Bears fan?

The sources don't say. He was raised in Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, and nothing links his fandom to where he grew up.

Which other athletes are Bears fans?

Dwyane Wade has said he is one, and Candace Parker has been reported as one.