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'It's Pop's decision. He's earned that': Inside Gregg Popovich's fight to return to the sideline

THE DRIVE FROM Keldon Johnson's ranch in Boerne, Texas, to the Frost Bank Center used to be predictable. Thirty minutes on the weekends, 45 during the week. But these days he has to leave early to account for the construction on seemingly every major highway in the area.

Everything about the city and the San Antonio Spurs feels like it's growing -- bursting with new energy and residents who've come here to fill in all the wide open space that used to define this part of Texas.

Even before the Spurs drafted Victor Wembanyama, No.