The 20 different emotions of Gregg Popovich
Gregg Popovich has emotions! Just look at all these different pictures!
Gregg Popovich is a person. He is best known for giving sulky inter-quarter interviews and for coaching a basketball team. Given his dismissive demeanor in his starring moments of camera time, one would be forgiven for thinking that stoicism is his default, if not only, expressed emotion.
But there’s more to a man than the sum of his interruptive interviews to some interloper with a microphone. One has to pay attention to the smaller moments that just don’t get quite as much play. Do you think LeBron is really as charming and charismatic as he comes off when talking with Doris Burke? I think I once saw a picture of him in jorts, so no. Maybe it was a dream, but it still counts.
So for the sake of fleshing Greggory “Basketslam” Popovich out as a person, I’ve decided to take you on a tour of some of his moments of deeper emotion. Obviously, not all can be accounted for. Some moments are saved for private moments like confession, and selfies, and confession selfies, but given the use of camera technology we can at least get a few glimpses.
Here is Pop…