San Antonio coach Gregg Popovich is doing well after needing medical care earlier this week after an incident in a restaurant, a person who knows the case said on Friday.
Popovich, 76, who missed most of this season while recovering from what the Spurs called a soft blow, was in a restaurant in San Antonio on Tuesday evening when he started not to feel good, said that the person, who spoke at the front of anonymity because neither Popovich nor the team published no publicly detail.
TMZ SPORTS, which first reported the story, obtained video sequences from what she said was that Popovich was far from the restaurant on a stretcher and loaded at the back of an ambulance. TMZ said that rescue officials had been called by someone reporting that a person has passed out in the restaurant.
Popovich had a stroke at the team’s arena in San Antonio on November 2. Assistant coach Mitch Johnson took office as an acting coach that evening and ended up training the last 77 games of the team season.
Popovich was in regular contact with Johnson and often in the establishment, even speaking to the team at least one opportunity in February. Popovich, at that time, said that he hoped that he could “return to training in the future”.
The Spurs did not give any indication if Popovich plans to be back in time for the start of next season. He is under contract with the team throughout the 2027-28 season.
Popovich is a member of the temple of basketball renown, led the Spurs at five NBA championships and guided American basketball to an Olympic gold medal at the Tokyo Games in 2021. He is the leader of all time of victories in the history of the NBA and one of the three coaches to win the NBA coach prize for three times And Pat Riley being the others.
His mandate with the Spurs returned to 1988 when he joined the club as an assistant coach. He left in 1992 and returned on May 31, 1994 as an executive vice-president of basketball operations and managing director.
He dismissed Bob Hill and appointed coach on December 10, 1996, holding this title since.
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