Coaching legend Gregg Popovich had some \u201cchoice words\u201d for the Spurs after their 123-108 loss to Oklahoma City in Game 3 of the Western Conference finals, guard De\u2019Aaron Fox told NBC after the team\u2019s 103-82 victory in Game 4 on Sunday night.<\/p>\n
\u201cPop\u2019s been around like throughout the course of the season,\u201d Fox said. \u201cBut that was the first time he walked into the locker room and was\u00a0
like, \u2018Nah, that\u2019s BS. That\u2019s not how we play basketball.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously, he had some choice words for it. That was the first time all season he came into the locker room right after a game and told us how he felt.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fox said general manager Brian Wright was also present when Popovich addressed the team.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s the first time I\u2019ve ever seen that. Trainers, everybody\u2019s in there. We close the doors, we don\u2019t let anybody know what\u2019s going on in here,” said Fox, who added that seeing Popovich enter the room immediately got everyone’s attention.<\/p>\n
Popovich, the\u00a0NBA\u2019s all-time winningest coach who guided the Spurs to five championships, retired from coaching last May following the stroke he suffered early in the 2024-25 season. He continues in his role as the team’s president of basketball operations and is frequent visitor to practices and shootarounds at the Victory Capital Performance Center.<\/p>\n
Spurs forward Devin Vassell said he and his teammates value Popovich’s feedback.<\/p>\n
“He’s telling you the truth and that’s what you need to hear because there’s a lot of BS that might go around,” Vassell said. “But you need to hear the truth, you need to hear what’s going on, and he’ll do that for sure.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coaching legend Gregg Popovich had some \u201cchoice words\u201d for the Spurs after their 123-108 loss to Oklahoma City…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-692578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}