On March 8, Beijing time, the 2021-22 NBA regular season continued. In today's Western Conference showdown, the Spurs' home team welcomed the Lakers' challenge. The two sides played very anxiously in this game, and with the stable performance in the final quarter, the Spurs finally defeated the Lakers 117-110!
After today's win, Spurs coach Popovich has won 1,335 regular season games, and Don Nelson, who is equal to the all-time number one, is only one win away, tied for the first place in the NBA's all-time regular season total wins! In the following game, as long as the Spurs win the next game, Popovich will complete the surpassing of Don Nelson and enjoy the first total win in NBA history!
Popovich has coached the Spurs since 1996, and this season is his 26th time in charge of the Spurs, the longest coach in the same team in the four major professional sports leagues in the United States. Under his leadership, the Spurs won five NBA championships in 1999, 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2014, and he was named the NBA Coach of the Year three times (2003, 2012, 2014) and four times the NBA All-Star Western Conference head coach (2005, 2011, 2013, 2016).
On January 28 of this year, Popovich celebrated his 73rd birthday. According to previous media reports, this season is likely to be the last season of Popovich's career. The Spurs are currently 25-40, ranking 12th in the West and 2.5 wins away from the 10th-place Pelicans in the West, and they still have hopes to impact the playoffs.