After practically three a long time guiding the San Antonio Spurs, Gregg Popovich is stepping down as the membership’s head coach however will stay with the group as the staff’s president of basketball operations, the franchise introduced on Friday.
Popovich’s teaching tenure ends after 29 seasons and 1,422 regular-season wins, essentially the most in NBA historical past. He received 5 NBA titles as Spurs’ head coach.
Prior to Friday, he was the longest lively head coach among the many 4 main sports activities leagues in North America.
Popovich missed most of the 2024-25 marketing campaign after having a stroke early within the season. Mitch Johnson served as the interim coach for almost all of the season.
“While my love and fervour for the sport stay, I’ve determined it is time to step away as head coach,” Popovich stated in an announcement. “I’m eternally grateful to the great gamers, coaches, employees and followers who allowed me to serve them as the Spurs head coach and am excited for the chance to proceed to help the group, group and metropolis which might be significant to me.”
Popovich’s Spurs received NBA titles in 1999, 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2014. He was the NBA’s Coach of the Year 2003, 2012 and 2014.
After his tenure received off to a rocky begin in 1996-97, his squads made the playoffs 20 consecutive years. That streak, nevertheless, was damaged in 2019-20. The Spurs haven’t made the playoffs since.
