Away from normal San Antonio Spurs duties, head coach Gregg Popovich helmed a minicamp for Team USA Basketball. He will coach the team in the 2020 Summer Olympics, taking over for Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski.
It’s clearly a looser environment for Popovich, given how he played “aggressive” defense against some of the players, including James Harden and Victor Oladipo.
Well, Popovich took his level of fun up a notch. He held a shooting drill that resulted in seven winners who were promised cars. That sounds great in theory and a useful motivation tool, and the five-time champion did indeed follow through with his promise, in a way (h/t Pounding the Rock):
Yes, now these All-Star players can go buy other cars and a race track to complete their Hot Wheels set.