The 20 different emotions of Gregg Popovich

2. Ambitious

Like a hungry solar panel curling its tongue toward the sun for sustenance.

One does not coach in the NBA without wanting it and wanting it bad. Unlike millenials who are ruining everything and get everything handed to them and are also rude and also refuse to thank their elders for the debt they’ve been allowed to experience and other opportunities disguised as long-reaching crises they’ve been graced with at such a young age, Pop is good. The most important championship is the one that hasn’t happened yet.

After losing to Chris Bosh’s Heat in 2013, Gregg Popovich came back the next season a brick on the gas pedal. He needed his legs free to kick other coaches in the eye while driving, sorta like the video game Road Rash except instead of a motorcycle it was a sensible four-door sedan with best-in-class gas mileage.

Unlike LeBron’s team this year (keep in mind, LeBron is a millenial and therefore terrible) the 2014 Spurs did not flip a switch. There was no switch, but if there was a switch, Pop would have locked it in the refrigerated safe where he keeps his cheese.

In this picture you can see the eyebrows of a man of desire. You can see the whispering hair of a man who’s been through battle to be here. The thousand mile stare in his case is just how far he’s looking ahead. He’s a lion who likes eating other lions, but in his case it’s okay. It just is.

Anyway, here is Pop…