{"id":40493,"date":"2025-05-02T20:20:38","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T20:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/02\/gregg-popovich-steps-down-as-san-antonio-spurs-coach-to-become-team-president\/"},"modified":"2025-05-02T20:20:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T20:20:38","slug":"gregg-popovich-steps-down-as-san-antonio-spurs-coach-to-become-team-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/02\/gregg-popovich-steps-down-as-san-antonio-spurs-coach-to-become-team-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Gregg Popovich steps down as San Antonio Spurs coach to become team president"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Spurs\u2019 Popovich leaves bench, becomes team president<\/li>\n<li>Coach led team to titles in 1999, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2014<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Gregg Popovich is stepping away as head coach of the San Antonio Spurs and will become the team\u2019s president of basketball operations, the Spurs announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Popovich, 76, took over as the head coach in San Antonio 18 games into the 1996-97 season as led the Spurs to five NBA championships in 29 seasons. With 1,422 regular-season wins, he is the winningest coach in NBA history.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/may\/02\/gregg-popovich-san-antonio-spurs-coach-president\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spurs\u2019 Popovich leaves bench, becomes team president Coach led team to titles in 1999, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2014 Gregg Popovich is stepping away as head coach of the San Antonio Spurs and will become the team\u2019s president of basketball operations, the Spurs announced Friday. Popovich, 76, took over as the head coach in San Antonio &#8230; <a title=\"Gregg Popovich steps down as San Antonio Spurs coach to become team president\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/02\/gregg-popovich-steps-down-as-san-antonio-spurs-coach-to-become-team-president\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Gregg Popovich steps down as San Antonio Spurs coach to become team president\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}