The legendary coach is in his 29th season as coach of the Spurs and there is no timetable for his return to the sideline, the team said.
Gregg Popovich, right, embraces Steve Kerr after a 2023 game at Chase Center in San Francisco. Popovich, the longtime head coach of the San Antonio Spurs, suffered a mild stroke earlier this month, the team announced Wednesday.Popovich is in his 29th season as coach of the Spurs and there is no timetable for his return to the sideline, the team said.
Assistant coach Mitch Johnson has been the acting head coach in Popovich’s absence. The Spurs play at home Wednesday against Washington, and that will be the seventh straight game where Johnson will be filling in for Popovich.in 2023, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and more than half a million Americans have a stroke every year.
Johnson and Popovich spoke the following day. The Spurs had not released much in the way of details since, prior to Wednesday’s announcement about the stroke. Popovich is one of only three coaches to win the NBA coach of the year award three times, Don Nelson and Pat Riley being the others. He’s one of five coaches with at least five NBA titles; Phil Jackson , Red Auerbach , John Kundla and Riley are the others.‘It’ll always be weird.
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