{"id":440359,"date":"2025-05-02T17:59:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T15:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=440359"},"modified":"2025-05-02T18:42:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T16:42:37","slug":"san-antonio-spurs-an-era-ends-gregg-popovich-no-longer-coach-of-the-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/san-antonio-spurs-an-era-ends-gregg-popovich-no-longer-coach-of-the-team\/","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio Spurs, an era ends: Gregg Popovich no longer coach of the team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1726\" data-end=\"2043\"><strong data-start=\"1741\" data-end=\"1759\">Gregg Popovich<\/strong>, the NBA\u2019s all-time wins leader and architect of one of basketball\u2019s greatest dynasties, <strong data-start=\"1849\" data-end=\"1895\">will no longer coach the San Antonio Spurs<\/strong>, sources told ESPN. Instead, the 76-year-old Hall of Famer will shift to a <strong data-start=\"1971\" data-end=\"2002\">full-time front office role<\/strong> as president of basketball operations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"2045\" data-end=\"2269\">Popovich\u2019s decision comes after health concerns, including a mild stroke in November, which kept him away from the sideline for most of the season. Assistant coach <strong data-start=\"2209\" data-end=\"2226\">Mitch Johnson<\/strong> closed out the year on an interim basis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"2271\" data-end=\"2585\">Despite his absence, Popovich remained heavily involved behind the scenes and has now opted to step back from the day-to-day demands of coaching. His resume includes <strong data-start=\"2437\" data-end=\"2456\">five NBA titles<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"2458\" data-end=\"2487\">1,422 regular season wins<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"2489\" data-end=\"2523\">three Coach of the Year awards<\/strong>, and <strong data-start=\"2529\" data-end=\"2564\">22 straight playoff appearances<\/strong> from 1998 to 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"2587\" data-end=\"2891\">He built a legacy with Duncan, Ginobili, Parker, Robinson, and Leonard that redefined team basketball. Popovich, who also coached <strong data-start=\"2717\" data-end=\"2754\">Team USA to Olympic gold in Tokyo<\/strong>, leaves behind a standard few will match. His transition marks the end of an era \u2014 and the beginning of a new one from the front office.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING: Gregg Popovich will no longer be Head Coach of the San Antonio Spurs and is transitioning full-time to Team President, sources told ESPN. The iconic Popovich is a Basketball Hall of Famer, the NBA\u2019s all-time winningest coach, and led the Spurs to five championships. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mbtUtpgA4V\">pic.twitter.com\/mbtUtpgA4V<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1918331462526304329?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 2, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After nearly three decades and five NBA championships as head coach, Gregg Popovich is stepping away from the bench to remain president of basketball operations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":412085,"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-440359","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\/11\/gregg-popovich-spurs-2.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440359","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\/174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440359"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=440359"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=440359"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=440359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}