{"id":463387,"date":"2025-10-07T17:31:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T15:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=463387"},"modified":"2025-10-07T17:31:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T15:31:59","slug":"gregg-popovich-watches-wembanyama-before-spurs-preseason-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/gregg-popovich-watches-wembanyama-before-spurs-preseason-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Gregg Popovich watches Wembanyama before Spurs\u2019 preseason debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"777\" data-end=\"1023\"><strong data-start=\"847\" data-end=\"856\">Spurs<\/strong> President of Basketball Operations <strong data-start=\"892\" data-end=\"910\">Gregg Popovich<\/strong> attended shootaround as <strong data-start=\"935\" data-end=\"956\">Victor Wembanyama<\/strong> warmed up ahead of the preseason opener vs. the <strong data-start=\"1005\" data-end=\"1020\">Loong-Lions<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1025\" data-end=\"1190\">It\u2019s not often the media gets to see Popovich in this setting, but his presence highlighted how involved he remains in team development despite his executive role.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1192\" data-end=\"1343\">Pop continues to oversee <strong data-start=\"1217\" data-end=\"1233\">Wembanyama\u2019s<\/strong> growth closely, ensuring his influence extends well beyond the bench into every aspect of the organization.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Gregg Popovich watched shootaround this morning where Victor Wembanyama got shots up before the Spurs\u2019 preseason debut against the Loong-Lions. Pop is the President of Basketball Operations and is heavily involved with the team\u2014but it\u2019s not often the media gets to see it. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YiAXCWjk07\">pic.twitter.com\/YiAXCWjk07<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mary Rominger (@KSATMaryRom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KSATMaryRom\/status\/1975394815027388431?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 7, 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>Spurs President of Basketball Operations Gregg Popovich attended shootaround as Victor Wembanyama warmed up ahead of the preseason opener vs. the Loong-Lions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":463386,"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_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-463387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-07-alle-17.29.20.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463387","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=463387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463387"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=463387"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=463387"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=463387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}