Doctors who examined Popovich in the locker room pronounced him OK, Brett Brown said
Spurs Head Coach Gregg Popovich watches team warm up before the game against the Milwaukee Bucks at the AT&T Center on Friday, Nov. 11, 2022.LOS ANGELES – Spurs assistant Brett Brown was walking out the tunnel at the Crypto.com Arena on Sunday night, same as he had before 17 games this season and for 11 seasons before that.He was concerned when Gregg Popovich was nowhere to be found.
Popovich never left the arena after falling ill Sunday, a Spurs spokesman said. Doctors who examined Popovich in the locker room pronounced him OK, Brown said.The Spurs declined to provide further details of Popovich’s condition.Brown found out about as late as could be that he would be coaching his first game since 2020, when he was in Philadelphia.Players, too, were taken aback by Popovich’s sudden absence.
Indeed, about an hour and a half before tipoff, Popovich had engaged in a sprawling pregame meeting with reporters that lasted 12 minutes and contained about as many punchlines.
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