Gregg Popovich has been around the San Antonio Spurs all season, talking to players at practices, offering advice, and being the wise elder statesman that he is.<\/p>\n
However, he is no longer the coach, so he had not entered the team\u2019s locker room postgame all season long… until after Game 3. That ugly loss changed things and Popovich lit a fire under the team, De\u2019Aaron Fox told the Showtime crew in NBC after the Spurs bounced back in Game 3. <\/p>\n
<\/p>\n Fox: Everything you hear about Wemby is true<\/p>\n De\u2019Aaron Fox joins NBA Showtime after Game 4 to provide an update on his health, what he sees in San Antonio\u2019s young guards and Victor Wembanyama\u2019s leadership.<\/p>\n \u201cPop\u2019s been around throughout the course of the season, but that was the first time he walked into the locker room. And it was like, \u2018Nah, that BS. That\u2019s not how we play basketball.\u2019 And obviously he had some choice words for us. That was the first time all season he came into the locker room right after the game and told us how he felt \u2014 and everybody felt that. Mitch (Johnson, Spurs coach), B-Wright (Brian Wright, Spurs GM) was in there, all the players down to the staff. And that was the first time I seen that. Everybody was in there, trainers, everybody\u2019s in there. We close the doors, we don\u2019t let anybody know what\u2019s going on in there. We open that door, we see Pop come in, and it\u2019s like, \u2018Awwww.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Whatever Popovich said worked. Well, that along with a monster game from Victor Wembanyama<\/a> plus some really smart defensive adjustments<\/a>. <\/p>\n The Spurs and Thunder are tied 2-2, but it feels like San Antonio has the momentum as the series shifts back to Oklahoma City for a critical Game 5 on Tuesday night, which tips off at 8:30 p.m. ET and you can watch on NBC or stream on Peacock. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gregg Popovich has been around the San Antonio Spurs all season, talking to players at practices, offering advice,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-694811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}