Few Things in life are as connected as Gregg Popovich and the San Antonio Spurs. He’s been their head coach since 1996 after disappointing 3-15 start with Bob Hill got him fired. And before Pop was the head coach, he was an assistant coach on the Spurs staff under Larry Brown, that is until Brown, Pop, Alvin Gentry, R. C. Buford, and Ed Manning were all fired.
It is between these two stints with the Spurs that Gregg Charles Popovich headed out west to Oakland to serve as an assistant coach to Don Nelson.