Aurélien Canot, Media365, published on Friday May 02, 2025 at 7:30 p.m.
Distant to the bench of San Antonio since last November following a slight stroke, Gregg Popovich (76 years old) will no longer be the spurs coach. The legendary American coach who remained 29 years on the bench of the Texan franchise will nevertheless remain within the organization.
A page in the history of the San Antonio Spurs turns. After 29 years on the bench of the Texan franchise, the legendary Gregg Popovich, now 76 years old, will no longer in the future be the chief coach of the Texans. Spurs, eliminated at the end of the regular season after being forced to spend the last three months of the exercise without their French superstar Victor Wembanyama (Editor’s note: for a 13th place on arrival to the west), announced the end of the “pop” era on Friday in a statement obviously loaded with emotion, especially since the publication revolves around the first words of the first words Last November (and replaced by Mitch Johnson) after being the victim of a slight stroke. “Although my love and my passion for the game remain, I decided that it was time to leave my post as main coach,” said the coach elected three times coach of the year and a real NBA legend but also from basketball, especially for having led San Antonio to five champion titles, including the last in 2014 of the time when Tony Parker, one of the emblematic players of the Popovich era the team.
Popovich: “I will be forever grateful”
Team USA coach at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, gold medal for Americans, does not leave the Texan franchise. In the future, the native of East Chicago, a coach having won the most matches in the entire history of the League (1,422 in the regular season and 170 in play-offs) will indeed retain a role within the organization, as probably as director of operations. “I will be eternally grateful to the wonderful players, coaches, staff and supporters who allowed me to serve them as the main coach of the Spurs and I am delighted to have the opportunity to continue to support the organization, the community and the city, who count so much for me,” concludes the one who definitively passes the relay to Johnson, promoted new main coach of the Spurs.
