I won’t lie, Gregg Popovich is my favorite coach in all of professional sports. He reminds me of my father-in-law, who’s a retired United States Air Force General. They even look alike. Popovich is a graduate of the Air Force Academy and served in covert intelligence before becoming an iconic NBA basketball coach who’s won five NBA championships in the collective bargaining era of the NBA. From my viewpoint, he’s the greatest coach in NBA history. But more than that, he’s an extremely smart guy who wants smart players both on and off the court. He and his players trade books, they talk about the world, they talk about the most recent episode of Anthony Bourdain. If I were an NBA player, he’d be the guy I’d want to play for because I know he’d extract the maximum out of me as both a player and a human being. Just ask Tim Duncan.
Steve Kerr loves mocking our idiot president, whereas Gregg Popovich is attempting to educate those who voted for George ‘Caligula’ Costanza. I don’t want thisto sound racist or anything in suggesting Oklahoma City is a market too dumb to have this kind of dialogue, but I’m wondering if and when Clay Bennett and/or Billy Donovan might if he ever engage in our national discussion. Basically, 75% of NBA players are black, you know, so it might be interesting to know if Bennett and Donovan are politically progressive enough to comment on any of this. I would guess no even though their star player was completely honest in that like me, he thinks Donald Trump is a piece of shit. Just saying.