THE Spurs formalized last night the five-year contract extension of the legendary Gregg Popovichfive-time NBA champion. The deal is for just over $80 millionmaking “Coach Pop” the league’s highest-paid coach again, weeks after Monty Williams set the record when he signed for the Pistons ($78.5 million over six years).
The most successful technician in the history of the regular season (1,366 wins), Gregg Popovich is stationed at San Antonio since the 1996/97 season and has also served as President of Basketball Operations for the Texas franchise. His new contract would allow him, moreover, to leave the bench upstream to occupy only this function.
If we can imagine that Gregg Popovich wanted to continue the adventure, even at 74 years old, we do not know if seeing Victor Wembanyama land influenced his final decision and the duration of his contract. If he fueled success for twenty years, qualifying the Spurs for the playoffs from 1998 to 2019, he has shown in recent years that he remains above all a fine tactician and leader of men, whatever the results of his crew.
The Texan strategist had notably declared, at the end of last season, how much he had enjoyed coaching his franchise despite a record of only 22 wins and 60 losses.
” We enjoyed the season, because we had guys that were so good character-wise that it didn’t matter how many consecutive losses, what mattered was the video shoot the next day and what we had to do, and they were there. in training or the next game and trying to do whatever we wanted them to do said Gregg Popovich. ” In a way, it was one of the most pleasant years, which may seem strange. In a way, it was fun not being on TV a lot, just getting to work and not worrying about the results, other than the players developing and the team improving. hear well to move forward. »
His passion for coaching therefore remains intact and Victor Wembanyama’s Spurs will still be able to enjoy it for five years!
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| Players | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | bp | Int | CT | party | Points |
| Keldon Johnson | 63 | 32.7 | 45.2 | 32.9 | 74.9 | 0.9 | 4.2 | 5.0 | 2.9 | 2.1 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 2.0 | 22.0 |
| Devin Vasell | 38 | 31.0 | 43.9 | 38.7 | 78.0 | 0.2 | 3.7 | 3.9 | 3.6 | 1.5 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 1.5 | 18.5 |
| Devonte Graham | 20 | 26.4 | 38.0 | 35.8 | 75.0 | 0.4 | 2.2 | 2.5 | 4.0 | 1.3 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 1.6 | 13.0 |
| Tre Jones | 68 | 29.2 | 45.9 | 28.5 | 86.0 | 0.8 | 2.8 | 3.6 | 6.6 | 1.6 | 1.3 | 0.1 | 1.4 | 12.9 |
| Jakob Poeltl | 46 | 26.1 | 61.6 | 0.0 | 60.5 | 3.3 | 5.7 | 9.0 | 3.1 | 2.1 | 0.8 | 1.1 | 2.6 | 12.1 |
| Zach Collins | 63 | 22.9 | 51.8 | 37.4 | 76.1 | 1.8 | 4.5 | 6.4 | 2.9 | 2.0 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 3.2 | 11.6 |
| Josh Richardson | 42 | 23.8 | 43.6 | 35.7 | 88.3 | 0.7 | 2.1 | 2.8 | 3.3 | 1.5 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 1.7 | 11.5 |
| Julian Champagnie | 15 | 20.9 | 46.1 | 40.7 | 82.4 | 0.7 | 3.3 | 4.0 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 1.7 | 11.0 |
| Jeremy Sochan | 56 | 26.0 | 45.3 | 24.6 | 69.8 | 1.7 | 3.6 | 5.3 | 2.5 | 1.7 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 2.5 | 11.0 |
| Sandro Mamukelashvili | 19 | 23.3 | 45.3 | 34.3 | 69.2 | 2.7 | 4.1 | 6.8 | 2.4 | 1.4 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 1.7 | 10.8 |
| Doug Mcdermott | 64 | 20.5 | 45.7 | 41.3 | 75.7 | 0.4 | 1.8 | 2.2 | 1.4 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 1.8 | 10.2 |
| Malaki Branham | 66 | 23.5 | 44.0 | 30.2 | 82.9 | 0.4 | 2.3 | 2.7 | 1.9 | 1.2 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 1.7 | 10.2 |
| Keita Bates-diop | 67 | 21.7 | 50.8 | 39.4 | 79.3 | 1.0 | 2.7 | 3.7 | 1.5 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.9 | 9.7 |
| Joshua Primo | 4 | 23.3 | 34.6 | 25.0 | 77.8 | 0.5 | 2.8 | 3.3 | 4.5 | 2.8 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 2.0 | 7.0 |
| Romeo Langford | 43 | 19.6 | 46.7 | 26.2 | 69.6 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 2.7 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 1.6 | 6.9 |
| Stanley Johnson | 30 | 15.6 | 53.3 | 45.0 | 66.7 | 0.7 | 2.4 | 3.2 | 2.2 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 1.6 | 5.8 |
| Charles Bassey | 35 | 14.5 | 64.4 | 37.5 | 59.5 | 2.1 | 3.4 | 5.5 | 1.3 | 1.2 | 0.5 | 0.9 | 2.1 | 5.7 |
| Blake Wesley | 37 | 18.1 | 32.1 | 38.5 | 59.1 | 0.3 | 1.9 | 2.2 | 2.7 | 1.8 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 1.8 | 5.0 |
| Isaiah Roby | 42 | 11.3 | 43.2 | 30.0 | 48.8 | 0.5 | 2.0 | 2.5 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 1.3 | 4.1 |
| Dominick Barlow | 28 | 14.6 | 53.5 | 0.0 | 72.0 | 1.6 | 2.0 | 3.6 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 2.0 | 3.9 |
| Gorgui Dieng | 31 | 11.6 | 38.5 | 28.0 | 76.9 | 0.9 | 2.6 | 3.5 | 1.7 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 1.8 | 3.9 |
| Jordan Hall | 9 | 9.1 | 32.1 | 20.0 | 77.8 | 0.3 | 1.0 | 1.3 | 1.2 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 3.1 |
| Alize Johnson | 4 | 7.4 | 50.0 | 0.0 | 50.0 | 0.5 | 2.0 | 2.5 | 0.3 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.8 | 1.8 |
