TO Gregg Popovich He never cared much for the formalities of the show. NBA. He usually does not agree too much with those rules that an organization imposes to take care of the business. His career as coach of the San Antonio Spurs made him the franchise’s most important coach. and possibly the most respected driver by all players.
It may be of interest to you: Brazil collapsed in the qualifying round: causes of its crisis?
He is a legend, Gregg Popovich, he is a character with all the letters, that is why he had no problem taking a microphone in the middle of the game between the Spurs and the Los Angeles Clippers to ask his fans to stop booing one of their rivals: Kawhi Leonard.
This Wednesday, at the AT&T Center, the home of the Spurs, Popovich had a reaction that surprised everyone. The San Antonio coach is a veteran of a thousand battles and at 74 years old he has less patience than ever.
We tell you: When is the next match of the Colombian National Team, who does it face and at what time?
That’s why he got upset with the attitude of his fans, who were harassing Leonard with whistles and boos, so he left the substitutes’ bench and headed towards the control table.
There were just three minutes left in the first half of the game and Leonard was about to take his second free throw.
Also: On video: Ángel Di María spat on Brazil fans who were in the stands
At that moment Pop approached the sector where the voice of the stadium is located, asked for the microphone and spoke to the fans energetically: “Your attention, please. I ask you for a second Can we stop booing and let these guys play? Have a little class. This is not who we are. That’s it with the boos”said the coach and returned to his place on the Spurs bench.
His message was not very well received by the Texan public, barely some applauded Popovich’s gesture, while the majority increased the level of boos for Kawhi Leonard.
The anger of the fans with the Clippers player is linked to the way in which he left the franchise, since he spent almost a year accusing an injury that was not such, because he wanted to be transferred to another team and San Antonio wanted to continue in the organization.
Leonard was NBA champion in 2014 with the Spurs, But since that achievement Leonard only thought about leaving Texas to return to California, because he wanted to return to his hometown: Los Angeles. Finally, he managed to be traded in 2018, but to the Toronto Raptors (he won the ring in 2019) and since then he has been considered “persona non grata” by many Spurs fans.
SPORTS
With information from La Nación de Argentina (GDA).
More news in EL TIEMPO
#Video #NBA #coach #confronts #fans #whistling #rival #tells #shut