{"id":19759,"date":"2025-10-24T20:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T20:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/19759\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T20:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T20:15:07","slug":"spurs-kick-off-2025-26-season-with-mitch-johnson-as-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/19759\/","title":{"rendered":"Spurs kick off 2025-26 season with Mitch Johnson as head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2025-26 NBA season is underway and the San Antonio Spurs are under the leadership of a new head coach.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mitch Johnson was <a href=\"https:\/\/sanantonioreport.org\/who-is-mitch-johnson-spurs-new-head-coach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">named the 19th head coach<\/a> in Spurs history on May 2. He succeeds one of the most decorated coaches in NBA history, Gregg Popovich, who served as head coach for 29 seasons and is now the Spurs\u2019 President of Basketball Operations.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Johnson is entering his 10th season with the Spurs. Last season, Popovich stepped away from the team due to health complications after just five games. Johnson was appointed the Spurs acting head coach for the remaining 77 games.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got some amazing young new players surrounded by some vets and a new coach and coaching staff that has energy,\u201d said Spurs Managing Partner Peter J. Holt this week at the San Antonio Report\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/sanantonioreport.org\/city-fest-peter-holt-sean-elliott-peter-sakai-gina-ortiz-jones\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">annual CityFest event<\/a>. \u201cI think this season and going into the future, we\u2019ve got a tremendously exciting young core.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Holt and NBA legend Sean Elliot spoke on a keynote panel about the team\u2019s legacy and its future.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson has been with the organization since 2016, when he was hired as assistant coach for the Austin Spurs, San Antonio\u2019s G League affiliate. He helped the team win the G League Championship in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Popovich hired Johnson as an assistant coach with the Spurs in 2019. In 2020, he was promoted to a full-time assistant role, taking over Tim Duncan\u2019s former position on staff. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/sanantonioreport.org\/author\/morgan-severson\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" alt=\"Avatar photo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cropped-morgan-mug-square-80x80.jpg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-80 photo\" height=\"80\" width=\"80\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMorgan Severson is the Community Engagement Editor for the San Antonio Report. She\u2019s formerly a news associate for CNN and has previously reported for the Houston Chronicle, Austin American-Statesman,&#8230;\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sanantonioreport.org\/author\/morgan-severson\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Morgan Severson\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2025-26 NBA season is underway and the San Antonio Spurs are under the leadership of a new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[15130,4802,4774,4805,15131,82,84,83,1066,1594,15132,4817,3028,3219],"class_list":["post-19759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-2025-26-nba-season","tag-gregg-popovich","tag-head-coach","tag-icymi","tag-mitch-johnson","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-san-antonio-spurs","tag-spurs","tag-spurs-head-coach","tag-tim-duncan","tag-typedaily","tag-wc-less-than-500"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}