Gregg Popovich Retires From Coaching: An End of an Era in NBA

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00:00obviously with retirement of greg popovich you know as a coach is someone that's watched the

00:16nba for a long time it's it's something that you know it's an end of an error you know we've talked

00:23about in college with the nil but this has been completely different what pop has done just

00:28looking at his record obviously winning over 1400 games you know obviously the five nba championships

00:32everyone's going to look at and and the way he navigated uh his team uh from the very beginning

00:39in 99 when he won the first title against my knicks with the ending of the david robinson uh era

00:44bringing in obviously tim duncan and then obviously getting guys like ginobili getting guys like tony

00:51parker roll guy steve kerr robert hori so on and so forth getting a guy like kawaii uh

00:57it's really the totality of what this guy is top 15 greatest coaches of all time it's funny we were

01:03talking about this earlier and we were we kind of got into all right well let's let's take red

01:08owl back out of it when there were like you know eight teams in the nba where do we rank these coaches

01:15right obviously you look at phil jackson number of championship rings he has he probably is the number

01:20one after you look at red so then you get into like riley versus pop and you look at the fact that

01:29the lakers won all their chips in that in that window right uh in between uh when he won his first

01:35one in 82 and then obviously when they got knocked out uh you know and when they won their last one

01:41in 88 and then you get into his time with the next so on so forth and then the one ring he had with

01:48obviously dwayne wait what pop did in san antonio a small market team has to be considered of why

02:00as much as i love riley i have to take greg popovich over riles one franchise through different eras

02:10through different players and the way that they had 22 straight seasons of over 500 they were

02:17competitive every year and it's a shame that we lose someone like pop now because of the fact of

02:23well he just got wendy and i thought that and i think kevin would agree when we i know we had talked

02:29about it in the past is this guy was kind of on his way out and all of a sudden he got wendy and he

02:35looked you know re-energized but now where does san antonio go after losing uh greg popovich uh with

02:44you know his career they pivot okay and they go to his top assistant and they go uh to a guy that's

02:53been in the spurs program mitch johnson for the last uh decade he's been part of the franchise now to me

03:00i'm gonna as a coach this is where i'm like if becky hammond wasn't with the las vegas aces would

03:06this this have been becky hammond um would it's would this have been the spot but he did a pretty

03:12good job as the interim coach taking over from november 2nd and it sets up a pretty interesting

03:17part of what are we going to get out of san antonio you look at women yama thank goodness he's healthy

03:24blood clot should be an issue he should be back next year we look at stefan castle what he played

03:30for the love of god can we please not start chris paul all 82 games next year let's put stefan castle

03:36in the starting lineup and let the kid play 35 minutes a night right what do you get uh you know

03:42uh out of a cell what do you get out of kelvin johnson what do you get out of some of these other guys

03:46but is there a trade to be made are you looking at taking some of these guys and looking at i don't

03:55know yannis becomes available another superstar becomes available do you go and give mitch johnson

04:04a chance or do you stay with that spurs culture and what they've built it's been really interesting

04:10to watch what's going on in san antonio but it's also for me as a coach a thank you to pop a thank you

04:17to a coach that stood on what he believed in year in and year out never made changes never did anything

04:26differently than what he wanted to and i think that's the thing kevin that i look at as a coach is

04:31this is a guy that for 25 years was a model of consistency and excellence with san antonio spurs

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