Gregg Popovich

People joke about how San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich should run for president of the United States in 2020. But Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr, a Popovich disciple, and two-time league MVP Stephen Curry aren’t kidding: They would vote for him if given the chance. From ESPN.com’s Tim MacMahon: “I truly [...]

San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich doesn’t have a problem with the NBA’s new procedures for resting players. But that doesn’t mean he understands them. As he told reporters prior to San Antonio’s loss at the hands of the Boston Celtics on Monday night, per ESPN.com’s Chris Forsberg: “Frankly, it’s a little bit cloudy. [...]

Kawhi Leonard has yet to play this season while recovering from a quad injury, but he might be ready to make his 2017-18 debut very soon. Or maybe not. San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich doesn’t really know, nor does he seem particularly concerned with attaching any sort of timetable to the All-Star’s return, [...]

LaMarcus Aldridge and the San Antonio Spurs are a weird pairing. First it seems like he’s unhappy. He didn’t show up in the Western Conference Finals after Kawhi Leonard went down, and his name was bandied about the trade rumor mill over the offseason. So, naturally, the summer ended with the Spurs giving him a [...]

It turns out the rumors regarding LaMarcus Aldridge’s unhappiness with the San Antonio Spurs were true. Not only that, he expressed his frustration to head coach Gregg Popovich. From ESPN.com’s Michael C. Wright: Having already stomached the uneasy feeling of not being used in San Antonio’s system the way he’d envisioned, a disastrous showing in [...]

Gregg Popovich has high expectations every season for his San Antonio Spurs, but he’s also a realist. And so, he is anything except upset over the year ending in a Western Conference Finals sweep at the hands of the Golden State Warriors—especially when you consider it was the team’s first season without Tim Duncan being [...]

Game 2 of the Western Conference Finals between the Golden State Warriors and San Antonio Spurs unfolded as you would expect knowing Kawhi Leonard wasn’t involved: The Spurs bent, and the Warriors rolled, winning 136-100. But Gregg Popovich was still left surprised. While he couldn’t have assumed the Spurs would win, he most certainly didn’t sound like [...]

Gregg Popovich, as it turns out, won’t be taking the high road in light of Kawhi Leonard’s latest ankle injury. Midway through the third quarter in Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals, Zaza Pachulia closed out on a Leonard three-pointer, invariably hopping his way into the All-Star forward’s landing space. Leonard turned his left [...]

Would Mike Brown be an assistant coach-turned-interim-head coach with the Golden State Warriors without Gregg Popovich? The short answer: Nope. Here’s Anthony Slater of the Bay Area New Group with the extended explanation: A year ago around this time, Steve Kerr was in the market for a new lead assistant and Mike Brown was a target. But [...]

During the fourth quarter of the San Antonio Spurs’ Game 2 drubbing of the Houston Rockets, Tony Parker went down with a left leg injury and needed to be carried off the court. It wasn’t a pretty sight. And the news afterward wasn’t any better. Though the Spurs didn’t clarify his status, head coach Gregg Popovich [...]