"Tony Parker scanned the box score after the Spurs' 89-84 victory over Memphis on Monday.

When he got to the line next to Tim Duncan's name, Parker's eyes got big.

Nineteen points. Seventeen rebounds. Five blocks. All of it crucial in the Spurs' grind-it-out win to open the nine-game rodeo road trip.

"Those are big numbers," Parker said, "at 45 years old."

Parker went for the obvious joke, exaggerating the one number that needed exaggerating. Duncan is not yet 45, but at 35 and with the mileage of four title runs on his odometer, there are nights he looks it."