So, San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich: You’ve presided over five championship teams, won a thousand-plus NBA games, made millions becoming the man Dwane Casey, your Toronto Raptors counterpart, proclaimed on Tuesday “the best (coach) in sports.”
So what is it, at age 67, that keeps you stomping the sideline with your trademark stooped venom in a late January stop when the important games aren’t played until June?
“Each game’s a different animal . . . You never, ever know,” Popovich was saying at the Air Canada Centre on Tuesday night. “You make adjustments, make substitutions, get certain groups on the floor, call timeout, yell and scream, beg, love, be crazy.