The San Antonio Spurs signed Gregg Popovich with the most expensive coaching contract in NBA history.
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He has piloted the NBA basketball club San Antonio Spurs since 1996 Gregg Popovich74, has signed a five-year contract extension with the club, the value of which is around 73 million euros.
The deal is According to Fox News the most expensive coaching contract in NBA history. In June, the Detroit Pistons did by Monty Williams with a six-year contract worth around 72 million euros, which was previously the most expensive NBA coaching contract.
Popovich coached in the NBA basketball league in the 1980s, but the American still manages to continue.
Popovich has coached the Spurs to five NBA championships, and he also won Olympic gold in Tokyo 2021 at the helm of the national team.
The Spurs have won an incredible 1,366 regular season games under Popovich, with 82 in one season.
In that statistic, Popovich is number one, but With Lenny Wilkens has more regular season games total. Popovich – now 2,127 – needs 351 more games to break the record, which was considered unbroken.
Between 1997 and 2019, the Spurs made the playoffs 22 times, which is an NBA record. The team has only missed the playoffs five times under Popovich.
Popovich is known for his collaborations with star players from outside the United States. Among other things, French Tony Parker and Argentinian Manu Ginobili were cornerstones of 2000s championship teams.
Popovich has said many times that non-Americans are better team players and work harder.
In the season that ended, Spurs finished last in the Western Conference, but were able to book first and caught the French By Victor Wembanyama19, which has been predicted to be the next megastar of the genre.