{"id":440362,"date":"2025-05-02T18:48:52","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T16:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=440362"},"modified":"2025-05-02T18:48:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T16:48:52","slug":"spurs-promote-mitch-johnson-as-new-head-coach-succeeding-popovich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/spurs-promote-mitch-johnson-as-new-head-coach-succeeding-popovich\/","title":{"rendered":"Spurs promote Mitch Johnson as new head coach, succeeding Popovich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1358\" data-end=\"1635\">The <strong data-start=\"1377\" data-end=\"1423\">San Antonio Spurs are hiring Mitch Johnson<\/strong> as the team\u2019s next head coach, sources tell <em data-start=\"1468\" data-end=\"1474\">ESPN<\/em>. Johnson, a <strong data-start=\"1487\" data-end=\"1512\">decade-long assistant<\/strong> and the interim coach since Gregg Popovich\u2019s stroke in November, <strong data-start=\"1578\" data-end=\"1632\">officially becomes the legendary coach\u2019s successor<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1637\" data-end=\"1854\">By appointing Johnson, the Spurs preserve the identity and organizational structure established by <strong data-start=\"1736\" data-end=\"1748\">Popovich<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"1750\" data-end=\"1767\">CEO RC Buford<\/strong>, and <strong data-start=\"1773\" data-end=\"1792\">GM Brian Wright<\/strong>, who joined the team in the same 2016 offseason as Johnson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1856\" data-end=\"2124\">Johnson\u2019s leadership during the latter part of the 2024-25 season earned widespread praise, and now he takes the reins of a young, rebuilding team featuring rising stars like <strong data-start=\"2031\" data-end=\"2049\">Stephon Castle<\/strong>. His promotion signals trust in internal development \u2014 a core Spurs value.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Breaking: The San Antonio Spurs are hiring assistant Mitch Johnson as the franchise&#8217;s next head coach, sources tell ESPN. Johnson has been an assistant in Spurs program for a decade, took over as interim coach in November \u2013 and now earns job as Gregg Popovich&#8217;s successor. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/43tpK5gEA9\">pic.twitter.com\/43tpK5gEA9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1918341007717855562?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>San Antonio maintains its legacy by elevating longtime assistant Mitch Johnson to the head coaching role following Popovich&#8217;s transition to the front office<\/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":[92],"tags":[],"rumors":[175],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-440362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","rumors-nba-rumors","typology-rumors"],"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\/440362","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=440362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440362\/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=440362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440362"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=440362"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=440362"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=440362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}