{"id":858973,"date":"2026-09-24T13:18:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T13:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/858973\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:18:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T13:18:20","slug":"gregg-popovich-marries-ex-wife-of-his-former-longtime-spurs-assistant-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/858973\/","title":{"rendered":"Gregg Popovich marries ex-wife of his former longtime Spurs assistant coach"},"content":{"rendered":"

Popovich and Mike Budenholzer coached together in San Antonio for nearly two decades and won four NBA titles<\/p>\n

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Former San Antonio Spurs<\/a> coach Gregg Popovich married Mary Barth Budenholzer last week, the ex-wife of his longtime assistant coach, Mike Budenholzer, TMZ<\/a> reported on Wednesday. Popovich and his new wife married on Sept. 16 in Texas, according to a Bexar County marriage license obtained by the outlet.<\/p>\n

Popovich, 77, won four NBA<\/a> titles with the Spurs (1999, 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2014) with Budenholzer as his assistant coach. Budenholzer departed the Spurs in 2013 — the year before the franchise won its last NBA title — to take a job with the Atlanta Hawks<\/a>. After stints with the Hawks, Bucks<\/a> and Suns<\/a>, Budenholzer didn’t coach in the NBA during the 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n

Budenholzer and his ex-wife reportedly got divorced in 2016.<\/p>\n

Popovich ended his legendary NBA coaching career in 2025 after 29 seasons and finished as the NBA’s all-time wins leader. The NBA adjusted Popovich’s career record months after his retirement, removing the 77 games he missed during the 2024-25 season, bringing his final career coaching record to 1,390-824.<\/p>\n

The Spurs’ 32-45 record during Popovich’s absence that season was instead credited to Mitch Johnson, who took over as interim coach and later had the interim tag removed.<\/p>\n

Popovich has served as the Spurs’ president of basketball operations since his retirement last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Popovich and Mike Budenholzer coached together in San Antonio for nearly two decades and won four NBA titles…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":858974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[355,2116,99],"class_list":["post-858973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-nba","tag-san-antonio-spurs","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=858973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/858974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}