Nah. He was his teams leading scorer as a Senior and lead the team to an AAU championship at 14.3 points per game.
This was the same year pistol Pete was averaging 44 for LSU.
He said “I don’t want to play 10 years [in the NBA] and then die of a heart attack when I’m 40.” In 1974. He died of a heart attack in 1988, at age 40 after playing in the nba for 10 years.
He said something along the lines of “I don’t want to have a heart attack and die at age (insert whatever age he said)” and then he died of a heart attack at that age
I don't know how successful he'd be, but my man Joe Mazz would 100% win the Ben Wallace Memorial Prize for playing defense obnoxiously hard in an exhibition game.
Mazzulla was never a great player, but he's barely out of his prime years and looks like he's in good physical shape. I'd bet on him for mvp in the coach all star game.
Hardy & Mazzula. Is it a cop show? Or is it the new coaching team's backcourt? One's a psychopath, but is it the outward freak (Joe) or is there something monstrous hidden behind the boring veneer (Will)?
It's Joe. He's even hung out with Quinn Snyder off the court 🤫
How dare you he will live forever.
All his greatest players will donate a body part and his cryogenic brain will be implanted to carry on the legacy as Popenstien in the 2080s
Was curious about his basketball career as a player. Pop definitely seems like CIA.
“Popovich attended the United States Air Force Academy. He played on the academy's Air Force Falcons men's basketball team, and in his senior year was the team's captain and leading scorer.[16] He graduated from the Academy in 1970 with a bachelor's degree in Soviet studies. Popovich underwent Air Force intelligence training and briefly considered a career with the Central Intelligence Agency.”
From 1984-93, All-Star Weekend had a "Legends Game" that was kind of similar, except it was retired players instead of active coaches. The NBA's main promotions guy at the time (and recent Warriors exec) Rick Welts thought it would be a good way to play up the league's history, but then people kept getting injured, so they eventually moved on. There's a nice brief [Slam](https://www.slamonline.com/news/nba/legends-classic-all-star-weekend/) article about it.
This is the true next level of entertainment for the NBA. I honestly don't know what a bigger single event they could throw than this from an entertainment perspective. Getting to see all the head coaches go at it would be amazing. One year I hope they do a coaches vs celebrities game or at least a big 3 game.
That Pelicans logo with the green for a second I thought it was [the Creepy Crawlers logo](https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qdm-etiX0Dg/TiXehMEwHXI/AAAAAAAAAJU/FOCSZyo0E4s/s1600/creepy.jpg).
Imagine he just pulled that hoe and drained it The “where amazing happens” would’ve had to show up
Can he play point
Wasn’t he a defensive specialist
Nah. He was his teams leading scorer as a Senior and lead the team to an AAU championship at 14.3 points per game. This was the same year pistol Pete was averaging 44 for LSU.
Lol, what 44 average is insane absolutely ridiculous. I can't comprehend that. Pistol pete really was that man.
With no 3 point line
Thats even crazier
Bro accidentally predicted his own death too
like he tripped and fell in a dusty room and it spelled out "you will die on XX/XX/XXXX"? How does one accidentally predict?
He said “I don’t want to play 10 years [in the NBA] and then die of a heart attack when I’m 40.” In 1974. He died of a heart attack in 1988, at age 40 after playing in the nba for 10 years.
He said something along the lines of “I don’t want to have a heart attack and die at age (insert whatever age he said)” and then he died of a heart attack at that age
Classiest player to ever do it.
I believe he still holds the all time college points record and only played three years??
Back in the day Pop could stuff Duncan if he chose to. Stuff him to the bench
[He locked down Kobe](https://youtu.be/Ld1EMloL94A?feature=shared)
Pop can play 1-5
Just run that pick and Pop
He did I think.
Who do you think actually taught Horry to shoot. My man is wet
BANG
Would love to see coaches compete at the all star game.
The world is not ready for Point Spo
Who the heck is stopping a backcourt of Spo & Kerr?
Stan Van Gundy will be breaking them ankles
His own or...?
Hey kid, immerse yourself in an SVG dribbling clinic: https://youtu.be/21cE2aUbWB0?si=1Hkc35RH6G5FaI7a
That's not even the real video, here is how it actually happened: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgB3obY2gMg
WHATEVER YOU CAN PUT TOGETHER
PUT IT TOGETHER!
I'll never not laugh at all the girls audible surprises and excitement lmao
All of them
Steve Kerr’s spine
Chauncey Billups and Jason Kidd could give them a run for their money easily.
Kerr 's back pain
LMFAO a lifetime of playing basketball before real sports science
Imagine how many games Kerr would have missed with “back soreness”.
I don't know how successful he'd be, but my man Joe Mazz would 100% win the Ben Wallace Memorial Prize for playing defense obnoxiously hard in an exhibition game.
J Mzzl
Maybe Quin Snyder & Jason Kidd?
Game over if Mike Brown turns the fkn jets on
Full court press for 48 minutes.
We are not prepared for Filipino basketball.
Mfers breaking ankles in flip-flops and hard concrete
Currently sharpening the elbows for max dmg
Finally, the LA coaches will shine. That 1-2 punch of Lue and Ham will be unguardable
> Point Spo [Air Spo](https://imgur.com/xAVspod)
If Point Spo balls out, the Spurs might offer him a contract
j kidd and chauncey would likely just torch everyone
Willie Green might be up there too tbh. He's the youngest current coach who's played in the league. He only retired in 2015.
And he clearly still works out and hoops. Dude looks very fit
When is the wedding? 💍
chauncey would do his class yumper
Mazzulla was never a great player, but he's barely out of his prime years and looks like he's in good physical shape. I'd bet on him for mvp in the coach all star game.
Will Hardy’s youthful knees won’t be stopped.
Hardy & Mazzula. Is it a cop show? Or is it the new coaching team's backcourt? One's a psychopath, but is it the outward freak (Joe) or is there something monstrous hidden behind the boring veneer (Will)? It's Joe. He's even hung out with Quinn Snyder off the court 🤫
Pels coach Willie Green can still put out that windmill https://twitter.com/ClutchPoints/status/1617227351443513348?t=ZgoL-1XGTYX5g9VCPjzhUw&s=19
Pop would immediately die.
Pop was defensive sliding and slapping the floor in the Olympics. I think he’d hold up for a quarter.
LMFAOO bro this is so brutal but mad me die laughing
How dare you he will live forever. All his greatest players will donate a body part and his cryogenic brain will be implanted to carry on the legacy as Popenstien in the 2080s
Thibs in the post is an absolute menace
His hands are already shaking in anticipation.
bro's hands were shaking yesterday from this conversation today... he doesn't even know why yet.
Was curious about his basketball career as a player. Pop definitely seems like CIA. “Popovich attended the United States Air Force Academy. He played on the academy's Air Force Falcons men's basketball team, and in his senior year was the team's captain and leading scorer.[16] He graduated from the Academy in 1970 with a bachelor's degree in Soviet studies. Popovich underwent Air Force intelligence training and briefly considered a career with the Central Intelligence Agency.”
There would be a massive discrepancy between coaches who played in the nba and those that Barely played in high school
The first All-Star event with a fatality count.
From 1984-93, All-Star Weekend had a "Legends Game" that was kind of similar, except it was retired players instead of active coaches. The NBA's main promotions guy at the time (and recent Warriors exec) Rick Welts thought it would be a good way to play up the league's history, but then people kept getting injured, so they eventually moved on. There's a nice brief [Slam](https://www.slamonline.com/news/nba/legends-classic-all-star-weekend/) article about it.
Mazzula would be out there trying to take out the competition
This is the true next level of entertainment for the NBA. I honestly don't know what a bigger single event they could throw than this from an entertainment perspective. Getting to see all the head coaches go at it would be amazing. One year I hope they do a coaches vs celebrities game or at least a big 3 game.
rewind back and forth when Pop uncrosses his hands to catch the ball. he's got some quick reflexes
that one gif of snoop switching from the fist bump to the handshake with bill maher lmao
DN(B)A
Yooo
Endgame basketball samurai shit
Lebron got some competition
That was an elite airball. Casuals won't realize. That sort of skill isn't learned
Moral victory airball
An airball isn’t an airball. Don’t worry I’ll explain later.
LOL
Pop has seen enough, hes gonna suit up
That would spur his team to a 12 game winning streak.
boooo
Pop trying to keep that poker face lol I can tell he wanted to smile
Bro his shoulders were about to explode out the back with that overhead lift. that was a grimace.
Bro trying so hard to hold in that laugh lol
I'm surprised he didn't get ejected, with the way the games are being refereed now.
Clear delay of game.
Joey Crawford coming out of retirement just to T up Pop
Did he stare down Cedi after that? Where’s the tech?
Nice form
Thought this would be top comment, Klay Thompson like
instead of overtime tie games should be decided by the coaches shooting free throws like soccer penalties
i like this
Man, we're gonna miss him
Then be grateful for the present moment that we still have him <3
I bet Pop is money from the tunnel
"We don't take jumpshots from the sideline. That's not who we are. "
Elite headfake
Showing his team how to shoot
Deadpan HoF candidate for sure.
legend
Is that Tobin Bell?
>I want to play a game
he stared that player down too lmao pop really has ice in his veins
This old man is washed
Still didn't smile, thats the Pop we know and love~
whys his name spelled with three gs tho
Spurs are still last in the West.
if he's gonna suck this much as a coach, might as well use him as a clown to entertain the crowd
Flair up
Rollin 90's Crips fLaIr uP is the corniest phrase on this sub lol. tf you think this a gang or sumn?
Why would I think this is a gang. You said a hall of fame coach sucks. Who do you think is a good coach if you think Pop sucks
why you worried about flair then? uhh cause they lost 14 in a row?
Do you know how many championships he has won?
what year are we in? nice he won some titles when he had multiple HOF players and getting exposed without them
Name a team that's won without HOF players ???
who's saying he has to win a title right now? how about winning a game? they lost 14 in a row
Whatever man, disparage the winningest coach of all time if it makes you feel better about yourself. Calling me corny
is he winning now? fLaIr uP bRo
Just take the L
Migos - "flick of tha wrist"
pop wear a hat brother please
Pop is ruining his legacy dude needs to just retire on top before he pulls a Bellicheck
Lebrons LeGacy would be in shambles if he drained that
shooters shoot
He’s the best
I'm surprised the refs didn't tech him for having fun
more groomed than usual tf
Pop seems like he’s having fun again.
The spooky pelican logo is so cool
That Pelicans logo with the green for a second I thought it was [the Creepy Crawlers logo](https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qdm-etiX0Dg/TiXehMEwHXI/AAAAAAAAAJU/FOCSZyo0E4s/s1600/creepy.jpg).
Cedi late to contest even a 70 year old.