Welcome to The Daily Yam, bringing you the top play from the night before, anything else you might have missed, and what to look forward to today. It’s your one-stop shop when you skipped last night’s action, and/or have forgotten what day it is. Today, we recognize Tim Duncan, who doesn’t normally do this kind of thing, doing it twice, all over the Lakers.

Tim Duncan is 36, and will be 37 in less than a month. In general human years: not very old. In basketball player years: pretty damn old. So when he plays a game like he did last night against the Clippers (34 points, 11 rebounds in a 104-102 win) and does this at the end, it’s tempting to say he’s “turned back the clock.” We’ve done it ourselves. But upon further review, we’re not sure that’s the right term. More on that after the jump.

March Madness is almost officially here. No, I don’t count conference championships as part of March Madness. We got a taste of the craziness to come, though, thanks to the Big East Championship between Syracuse and Louisville. Get caught up on that, plus a look at Tim Duncan’s resurgence in the absence of Tony Parker.

Tim Duncan has long been referred to as “Groundhog Day,” a nickname gifted him by Charles Barkley because his game is the same thing every day like the Bill Murray film of the same name. With today actually being Groundhog Day, it only seems right that we honor Duncan’s model of consistency.

What’s the best way to follow up being fined $250,000 by the NBA for resting your starters in a prime-time matchup with the defending NBA champions? Probably not this? Okay, fair enough.

Gregg Popovich, coaching mastermind that he is, went over his schedule at the beginning of the season and determined games in which he would bench some of his aging stars.

Welcome to “Pretty Much Screwed,” our 2012-13 guide to the upcoming NBA season, in which we identify the reasons why your favorite team might have to start looking forward to 2013-2014 — and highlight at least one reason for you to be hopeful. Today: the San Antonio Spurs, where Pops, Tony, Timmy and Manu try and keep the nasty going as they again start another season as one of the favorites in the West.

The Spurs are running the young-blood Thunder out of the building and seem poised to take a 2-0 lead before heading to OKC for Game 3. In fact, Tim Duncan looks like he wants to shut the door on these upstarts right now. How do we know? Look at what he did to poor Serge Ibaka, after the jump.

I’m playing paintball in a few weeks. I’ve never played before, so I’m looking forward to it… I’m just a little afraid that this picture will make my expectations too high, because now I fully expect Tim Duncan to show up.

Ah, the incredulous faces of NBA superstars being called for fouls. Truly, they look like their souls have just been stolen.