San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich paid the price for walking off the court before his team’s final shot.
The San Antonio Spurs did not play their best basketball on Saturday night against the Los Angeles Clippers and Gregg Popovich was not happy about it.
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The biggest showing of frustration from the Spurs’ coach,walking off the court at the end of the second quarter before the end of his team’s last possession of the half.
That proved to be a mistake on Popovich’s part, as Boris Diaw’s misfired half-court heave ultimately drilled the coach in the back.
.@spurs Boris Diaw attempts the buzzer-beater but he ends up DRILLING Coach Pop with the ball. http://t.co/9Gsx5tp7IH
— ESPN Highlights (@HighlightsESPN) February 1, 2015
Well, that couldn’t have felt good.
The funniest part of this sequence is how completely unfazed Pop is after getting hit with the ball. Though, that shouldn’t really surprise anyone given how cool, calm and collected Popovich generally is.
The Clippers ended up winning the game 105-85, giving themselves a 33-15 record and dropping the Spurs to a 30-18 record.
Popovich has been the Spurs’ coach since 1996, leading the team to five championships (1999, 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2014)
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