{"id":40728,"date":"2025-05-05T21:55:57","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T21:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/05\/popovich-hands-over-spurs-coaching-reins-after-nearly-30-years-im-el-jefe-now\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T21:55:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T21:55:57","slug":"popovich-hands-over-spurs-coaching-reins-after-nearly-30-years-im-el-jefe-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/05\/popovich-hands-over-spurs-coaching-reins-after-nearly-30-years-im-el-jefe-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Popovich hands over Spurs coaching reins after nearly 30 years: \u2018I\u2019m El Jefe now\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>NBA\u2019s all-time wins leader suffered stroke in November<\/li>\n<li>76-year-old will move into role as team president<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Gregg Popovich spoke publicly Monday for the first time since suffering a stroke six months ago, saying that the time was right to step down from his role as San Antonio Spurs head coach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThings are getting better by the day, but it\u2019s not good enough for what we plan ahead,\u201d Popovich said. \u201cSo, it\u2019s time to make this change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Flanked by Spurs greats Tim Duncan and Manu Ginobili, the 76-year-old Popovich \u2013 speaking far more softly than he has in the past \u2013 said his health is improving and that he fully believes in Mitch Johnson, who will replace him as the team\u2019s coach.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/may\/05\/popovich-hands-over-spurs-coaching-reins-after-nearly-30-years-im-el-jefe-now\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBA\u2019s all-time wins leader suffered stroke in November 76-year-old will move into role as team president Gregg Popovich spoke publicly Monday for the first time since suffering a stroke six months ago, saying that the time was right to step down from his role as San Antonio Spurs head coach. \u201cThings are getting better by &#8230; <a title=\"Popovich hands over Spurs coaching reins after nearly 30 years: \u2018I\u2019m El Jefe now\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/05\/popovich-hands-over-spurs-coaching-reins-after-nearly-30-years-im-el-jefe-now\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Popovich hands over Spurs coaching reins after nearly 30 years: \u2018I\u2019m El Jefe now\u2019\">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-40728","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\/40728","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=40728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}