SAN ANTONIO -- Spurs coach Gregg Popovich shrugged off a local reporter's suggestion that his team is mired in a "soap opera," one day after ESPN reported on the strained relationship between the club and its star forward Kawhi Leonard.
Multiple league sources described Leonard and his representatives being "distant" and "disconnected" from the organization, with months of discord between the sides coming as a result of frustration from different elements of treatment, rehabilitation and timetables for the forward's return from right quadriceps tendinopathy recovery.
"I don't even know why you say it's a soap opera," Popovich said.