With few details on San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich's absence the key word is 'indefinite'
LOS ANGELES – Two years ago, in an arena just down the freeway from the one the Spurs were set to visit Monday night, Gregg Popovich ’s assistant coaches made their typical pregame walk from the locker room to the court. Emerging from the tunnel, Brett Brown looked back over his shoulder, expecting to see his boss. Popovich wasn’t there. “When something like that happens,” Brown said then, “you’re concerned.
The best Spurs coverage in Alamo City, delivered to your inbox Beyond that? If the team has any specific expectations for a return, it isn’t revealing them yet. And as long as Popovich isn’t around? It’s only natural there will be concern, if for no other reason that the 75-year-old Popovich has made it clear, over and over again, how much he wants to keep doing his job.
For Spurs, business as usual with Popovich out It was only natural, then, that he’d want to experience at least part of what looks like an inevitable upswing with Victor Wembanyama. Popovich probably didn’t envision himself hoisting another trophy. But coaching in another playoff series, or even one more play-in game? That didn’t seem so unrealistic. We don’t know yet if that calculus has changed.
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