Popovich walked into the interview room in no mood to explain the obvious. Enter Our Hero and your author, looking for a tag line to a story that the two teams had co-written two hours earlier. Let us ...

Kawhi Leonard and Gregg Popovich (Photo by Jerome Miron/Imagn Images) On May 2, 2025, the San Antonio Spurs officially announced that Gregg Popovich, their long-serving head coach, would be ...

Kawhi Leonard is a man of few words, rarely one to open up publicly about emotions or relationships. But when news broke of Gregg Popovich’s retirement after nearly three decades of coaching ...

Popovich, who won five NBA championships as a head coach, suffered a mild stroke in November 2024 and was then hospitalized in April 2025 after a medical incident at a restaurant.

Los Angeles Clippers star Kawhi Leonard on Saturday had nothing but kind words for his former head coach Gregg Popovich. On Friday, Popovich announced that he was stepping down as the head coach ...

Kawhi Leonard gave a heartfelt tribute to former coach Gregg Popovich, who, after 29 seasons at the helm of the San Antonio Spurs, is stepping down from coaching and shifting into a full-time role as ...

Mandatory Credit: Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports Los Angeles Clippers star Kawhi Leonard on Saturday had nothing but kind words for his former head coach Gregg Popovich.

Los Angeles Clippers star Kawhi Leonard had high praise for Gregg Popovich after the San Antonio Spurs head coach stepped down this week. Following Saturday's season-ending 120-101 loss to the ...

Justin Russo: Kawhi Leonard on Gregg Popovich: “He had a phenomenal career. He coached until he pretty much couldn’t. It shows how much dedication he had to the game, how much he loved … ...

San Antonio Spurs' Tim Duncan, left, and Manu Ginobili of Argentina hug as coach Gregg Popovich reaches in to congratulate them after Duncan made the winning shot in San Antonio's 98-96 victory ...

Popovich returned to the Air Force in 1973, coaching Air Force Academy Prep School and then serving as an assistant coach for the Air Force. He became the head coach at Pomona-Pitzer College in ...

It’s unimaginable. And in one sense, at least, it’s not even true. SPURS NAME POP'S REPLACEMENT: Mitch Johnson named full-time head coach Popovich at last gave in, just a little bit, on Friday.