San Antonio Spurs assistant Ettore Messina will coach the team in Game 3 of their first-round series against the Golden State Warriors, the team announced.
Messina will take the helm after the team announced that the wife of Spurs head coach Gregg Popopvich died on Wednesday.
Popovich and his wife Erin, 67, had been married for four decades and had two children and two two grandchildren.
"We mourn the loss of Erin," Spurs general manager R.C. Buford said. "She was a strong, wonderful, kind, intelligent woman who provided love, support and humor to all of us.