Just like everybody else, Will Hardy made an educated guess about when Popovich would walk away for good. He assumed it would happen at the end of the season. After the Spurs won the NBA championship. In 2014.
Utah Jazz coach Will Hardy shouts to a player during the second half of the team’s game against the New York Knicks on Feb. 11 in New York.Will Hardy figured he knew Gregg Popovich pretty well. For years he spent most of his days with him, inside locker rooms, on practice courts and in coaches’ offices, and he had a feeling the old man wouldn’t keep doing this forever.
That last line is classic Popovich, because it’s the God’s honest truth disguised in the cadence of a joke. It’s become an annual tradition in San Antonio to spend the spring wondering whether we’re watching the end of something – Popovich’s last home game, Popovich’s last glare at an official, Popovich’s last sideline curse word – but there’s a good reason why it’s so difficult to be sure.
After all, not many people would voluntarily give up his salary and his lifestyle. Could it really be that simple? Wednesday night, before the Spurs’ AT&T Center finale, rookie forward Jeremy Sochan grabbed a microphone at center court, thanked San Antonio fans for their support, and then told any Utah Jazz supporters in attendance that they were about to lose.
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