{"id":424867,"date":"2025-01-22T17:27:37","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T16:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=424867"},"modified":"2025-01-22T17:27:37","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T16:27:37","slug":"popovichs-return-not-imminent-he-will-be-back-but-not-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/popovichs-return-not-imminent-he-will-be-back-but-not-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Popovich\u2019s Return Not Imminent: &#8220;He Will Be Back, But Not Yet&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary coach Gregg Popovich will not be returning to the San Antonio Spurs bench anytime soon. Popovich, who stepped down temporarily after suffering a mild stroke on November 1, is still in recovery and progressing steadily.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He\u2019s making progress week by week,&#8221; Spurs GM R.C. Buford said. &#8220;We don\u2019t know when he\u2019ll be ready, but he will be back at some point.&#8221; For now, interim coach Mitch Johnson will remain at the helm as the Spurs attempt to recover from a tough stretch of six losses in their last seven games.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lequipe.fr\/Basket\/Actualites\/Le-directeur-general-des-spurs-affirme-que-gregg-popovich-reprendra-la-tete-de-l-equipe-a-un-moment-donne\/1533999\">Source: Equipe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Antonio Spurs GM R.C. Buford clarified that Gregg Popovich is still recovering and not yet ready to return, though his comeback is expected in the future<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":375602,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-424867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/03\/San-Antonio-Spurs.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424867"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=424867"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=424867"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=424867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}