Spurs coach Gregg Popovich puts baseball on a par with poems about medieval agriculture. So he didn’t watch Game 5 of the World Series — “Sports are boring,” he said. But he was asked in general terms if he ever could be talked out of removing a player who wanted to stay in a game, ala Matt Harvey and the Mets.
“Was [Manu] Ginobili playing baseball?” Popovich said. “Honest story. I don’t really want to play him much in back-to-backs this year, which is really nothing new. So we talked about it. I thought we had come to a conclusion.