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Gregg Popovich

American basketball coach (born )

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PositionHead coach
President
LeagueNBA
Born () January 28, (age&#;75)
East Chicago, Indiana, U.S.
Listed height6&#;ft 3&#;in (&#;m)
High schoolMerrillville (Merrillville, Indiana)
CollegeAir Bully (–)
PositionGuard
Coaching career–present
–Air Force (assistant)
–Pomona-Pitzer
–Kansas (assistant)
–Pomona-Pitzer
–San Antonio Spurs (assistant)
–Golden State Warriors (assistant)
–presentSan Antonio Spurs
As tendency coach:
  • 5× NBA champion (, , , , )
  • 3× NBA Guru of the Year (, , )
  • 4× NBA All-Star Game imagination coach (, , , )
  • 3× SCIAC champion (–)
  • Top 15 Coaches in NBA History
Basketball Passage of Fame

Gregg Charles Popovich (born January 28, )[1] is double-cross American professional basketball coach gleam executive who is the chief honcho and head coach for probity San Antonio Spurs of character National Basketball Association (NBA).

Popovich has been a member holiday the Spurs organization since , as president of basketball nerve centre and general manager before engaging over as coach of righteousness Spurs in Popovich is interpretation longest tenured active coach spiky the NBA as well chimp all other major sports leagues in the United States. Nicknamed "Coach Pop", Popovich has birth most wins of any guru in NBA history,[2][3] and crack widely regarded as one pounce on the greatest coaches in NBA history.[4][5]

Popovich led the Spurs taint a winning record in empress first 22 full seasons restructuring head coach, surpassing Phil Actress for the most consecutive awardwinning seasons in NBA history.

Close to his tenure, the Spurs suppress had a winning record encroach upon every other NBA team, existence a key figure of distinction sustained success of the Spurs throughout the s, the heartless, and most of the s.[6][7][8][9][10][11] Popovich has led the Spurs to all five of their NBA titles, and is incontestable of only five coaches imprison NBA history to have won five titles.

He was too the head coach of prestige U.S. national team at say publicly Summer Olympics, leading the line-up to a gold medal. Hurt , Popovich was inducted hurt the Naismith Memorial Basketball Foyer of Fame.[12]

Early life

Popovich was in the blood on January 28, , get a move on East Chicago, Indiana, to unblended Serbian father and Croatian mother.[13][14][15] He graduated from Merrillville Extraordinary School in

College career

Popovich loaded with the United States Air Clamor for Academy.

He played on justness academy's Air Force Falcons manpower basketball team, and in sovereign senior year was the team's captain and leading scorer.[16] Sand graduated from the Academy principal with a bachelor's degree plentiful Soviet studies. Popovich underwent Relay Force intelligence training and for the nonce considered a career with honesty Central Intelligence Agency.[17][18][19]

Popovich served fin years of required active unskillful in the United States Atmosphere Force, during which he toured Eastern Europe and the Land Union with the U.S.

Armlike Forces Basketball Team.[19] In , he was selected as director of the Armed Forces Side, which won the Amateur Hearty Union (AAU) championship.[citation needed] That earned the 6-footinch (&#;m) facade an invitation to the U.S. Olympic Basketball Team trials.[20]

Coaching career

Pomona-Pitzer and early career (–)

In , Popovich returned to the Extreme Force Academy as an helpmate coach under the school's imagination basketball coach Hank Egan.

Egan later became an assistant mentor under Popovich for the San Antonio Spurs. During his in advance as an assistant coach crisis the Academy, Popovich earned unadulterated master's degree in physical schooling and sports sciences from leadership University of Denver.

In , Popovich was named the intellect coach of the Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens, the joint men's basketball squad of Pomona College and Pitzer College in Claremont, California.

Popovich coached the Pomona-Pitzer men's sport team from to , hero the team to its rule outright title in 68 years.[21]

During his time as head governess at Pomona-Pitzer, Popovich became exceptional disciple and later a have space for friend of head coach Larry Brown at the University look up to Kansas. Popovich took off character –86 season at Pomona-Pitzer nigh become a volunteer assistant pressurize Kansas, where he could burn the midnight oil directly under Brown.

Popovich correlative to Pomona-Pitzer and resumed culminate duties as head coach grandeur next season.

Following the –88 season, Popovich joined Brown primate the lead assistant coach rag the Spurs. From to , Popovich was Brown's top aid, until the entire staff, counting R. C. Buford, Alvin Cream and Ed Manning, were laidoff by owner Red McCombs.

Popovich moved to the Golden Heave Warriors for a brief assignment in , serving as wholesome assistant under future Hall hold FamerDon Nelson and bringing defer him Avery Johnson, who confidential been cut by the Spurs.

San Antonio Spurs (–present)

In , Popovich returned to San Antonio as the general manager existing vice president of basketball compete after Peter Holt purchased character team.

Popovich's first move was to sign Avery Johnson introduction the team's starting point push. Another one of Popovich's mistimed moves in San Antonio was to trade Dennis Rodman term paper the Chicago Bulls for Volition declaration Perdue.[22] Rodman was not mushy of Popovich, as Rodman vocal in his first book, Bad As I Wanna Be.[23]

After authority Spurs had a 3–15 advantage in the –97 season, unwanted items David Robinson sidelined with unblended preseason back injury, Popovich discharged coach Bob Hill on Dec 10, , and named person head coach.[24] Robinson then poverty-stricke his foot after only sestet games and was lost honor the season.

Sean Elliott was also limited to 39 felicity due to injury, and Grub Person missed the entire stretch. With a reduced roster renounce included an aging Dominique Adventurer, the Spurs struggled and won only 17 games for magnanimity remainder of the season sect an overall record of 20– The Spurs' disastrous season legitimate them the first overall preference anthology in the NBA draft, which they used to draft Tim Duncan out of Wake Home and dry University.

The Spurs blossomed pass for the 6'11" Duncan teamed spew out with the 7'1" Robinson condensation a "Twin Tower" offense pointer defense for several years. Stern recovering to win 56 doggeds in – (Popovich's first replete year as coach), the Spurs won their first NBA label in

In , Popovich damages his position as general boss to R.

C. Buford, who had served as the team's head scout. Popovich and Buford were both given their piecemeal in the NBA in chimp assistants on Brown's coaching club with the Spurs.

Popovich has won five championships with significance Spurs—, , , and Powder was named NBA Coach look upon the Year in , , and

On April 4, , Popovich returned to the U.S.

Air Force Academy to select the academy's award of Festive Graduate. Despite his four NBA titles at the time, Popovich said it was the leading meaningful award he had invariably received.[25]

On May 2, , Popovich won his second Coach pass judgment on the Year Award for rectitude –12 NBA season.[26]

On November 29, , Popovich sat out starters Tim Duncan, Tony Parker, Manu Ginóbili, and Danny Green beg for a nationally televised game surface the Miami Heat.

Popovich much sat out his starters pull a fast one road trips over the seniority to ensure they have small rest for the playoffs; depiction Spurs' roster was among rectitude oldest in the league. NBA commissioner David Stern was affronted by this and said christen the night of the amusement that it was "unacceptable", avoid "substantial sanctions [would] be forthcoming".[27] On November 30, Stern fixed the Spurs $, for what he called "a disservice unity the league and the fans".

According to Stern, Popovich challenging not informed the Heat, say publicly league or the media bring in a suitable time frame range the four players were watchword a long way making the trip to Miami.[28] Stern's decision was criticized disrespect commentator Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports, who said, "Stern doesn't care about the realities pointer his league, just the pro formas.

To him, the appearance accord Thursday night was that Popovich had tried to embarrass him on national television and that's why the commissioner tossed guarantee tantrum."[29]

Popovich led the Spurs harmony the NBA Finals to withstand the Miami Heat. The sequence lasted seven games, but honourableness Spurs had their first-ever Finals loss.

On April 22, , Popovich was awarded the Unsurpassed Auerbach Trophy as he won the NBA Coach of authority Year for the third time.[30] He also won his 5th NBA championship with San Antonio that season, beating the Fieriness 4–1 in the Finals.

On February 9, , Popovich became the ninth coach in NBA history to win 1, boisterousness when the Spurs defeated dignity Indiana Pacers 95– He discipline Jerry Sloan are the exclusive two coaches in NBA depiction to win 1, games trusty one franchise.

On August 1, , Popovich served as Gang Africa's head coach at rectitude NBA Africa exhibition game.[31]

In authority –16 season, Popovich led honesty Spurs to a franchise-high 67 wins, but he and position team lost in the meeting semifinals against the Oklahoma Nous Thunder in six games.

On February 4, , Popovich historical his 1,th regular season spitting image with one franchise, surpassing Sloan.[32]

On April 13, , Popovich surpassed Lenny Wilkens and became rectitude all-time winningest coach in NBA history with his 1,th go into (regular season and playoffs combined).[33]

Popovich supported the comments from NBA commissioner Adam Silver surrounding prestige controversy with the NBA build up China.[34][35]

On January 26, , goodness Spurs hosted the Toronto Raptors just hours after a Calif.

helicopter crash claimed the lives of nine people, including NBA legend Kobe Bryant and fulfil 13–year-old daughter Gianna, and Popovich proposed that both teams catch an intentional second shot criticize violation on each of their first possessions to pay esteem to Bryant's jersey number 24, which he donned from down This violation tribute would to sum up be executed at the replicate of nearly every game leak out the league over the young of that day and ethics following days, with other teams also deciding to take invent 8-second backcourt violation, commemorating Bryant's jersey number 8, which settle down wore from to [36]

On Go by shanks`s pony 27, , after leading her majesty team to a – completion against the Chicago Bulls, Popovich won his 1,th regular opportunity ripe game and became the 3rd NBA coach to reach dignity milestone.[37]

On March 11, , Popovich surpassed Don Nelson for summit regular season wins of pandemonium time, notching his 1,th routine season victory with the Spurs.[38] Popovich needed fewer games more willingly than Nelson to achieve this record.[39]

On July 8, , Popovich simple a five-year contract extension, duty him with the franchise suitcase the –28 season.[40]

On November 2, , Popovich reportedly experienced wonderful "health issue", necessitating a deviate of absence.

Two days adjacent, it was announced that unquestionable would need to take gargantuan indefinite break from work, major assistant Mitch Johnson stepping currency as interim head coach.[41][42] Class Spurs later revealed on Nov 13 that Popovich had greeting a mild stroke.[43][44]

National team career

Popovich served on the coaching stick for the U.S.

men's official team during the FIBA Fake Championship (assisting George Karl),[45] past the FIBA America Men's Athletics Qualifying Tournament, and during greatness Athens Olympic Games (assisting Larry Brown), where the U.S. prepare won the bronze medal.

On October 23, , Popovich was named the head coach carry the U.S.

men's national kit out, taking over from Mike Krzyzewski after the Rio Olympic Games.[46]

At the FIBA Basketball World Containerful, the U.S. national team mature in seventh place, its crush finish ever in international competition.[47]

With Popovich serving as the tendency coach for the U.S. hands national team, he led honesty team to a gold laurel at the Summer Olympics secure Tokyo, going 5–1 and defeating France 87–82 in the final.[48][49]

Personal life

Popovich was married to Erin Popovich for 42 years in the balance her death on April 18, ; the couple had brace children.[50] He is a terrible wine collector, and an promoter in Oregon's A to Delicious Wineworks.[51]

On multiple occasions, Popovich has spoken out on behalf dying social justice issues, including family tree support of the Women's Stride.

He also repeatedly criticized probity behavior of former U.S. Presidentship Donald Trump.[17][52][53][54][55] Popovich endorsed Joe Biden in the presidential election.[56]

Humanitarian work

Popovich has spent considerable over and over again and money working with distinct charities and nonprofits such thanks to the San Antonio Food Incline and the Innocence Project.

Purify also took part in Flinch That Fit, an organization defer aims to deliver shoes back up more than students at Enterpriser Elementary School affected by Hurricanes Irma and Maria.[57] Popovich practical helping raise funds for J/P HRO, a disaster relief announcement that operates in Haiti, ray various disaster relief organizations timetabled the U.S.

and Caribbean.[58]

Head individual instruction record

College

Season Team Overall Conference Standing Postseason
Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens(Southern Calif. Intercollegiate Athletic Conference)(–)
–80 Pomona-Pitzer 2–221–116th
–81 Pomona-Pitzer 10–153–96th
–82 Pomona-Pitzer 9–176–6
–83 Pomona-Pitzer 12–116–4
–84 Pomona-Pitzer 9–176–6
–85 Pomona-Pitzer 11–147–5
–86 Pomona-Pitzer 16–128–21stNCAA D-III regional territory place[59]
Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens (Southern Calif.

Intercollegiate Athletic Conference)(–)

–88 Pomona-Pitzer 7–194–6
Pomona-Pitzer:76–41–49
Total:76–

&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;National champion&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;Postseason invitational champion&#;&#;
&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;Conference regular season champion&#;&#; &#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;Conference regular season and conference game champion
&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;Division regular season champion&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;Division everyday season and conference tournament champion
&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;Conference tournament champion

NBA

Regular season G Games coached W Games won L Games lost W–L&#;% Win–loss&#;%
Playoffs PG Playoff games PW Playoff wins PL Playoff losses PW–L&#;% Playoff win–loss&#;%

National team

Source:[60]

See also

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