On March 8, Beijing time, the NBA regular season Spurs played against the Lakers. With the Spurs winning, Popovich also achieved a miracle, and he equaled Nelson Sr. and tied for the first place in the regular season victory in charge.
In this showdown with the Lakers, James was truncated due to injury. The Spurs established a nine-point lead in the first quarter, in fact, at one point they were as much as 14 points ahead. However, in the second quarter, the Lakers narrowed the point gap, and in the second half, the Lakers continued to chase points, and when the fourth quarter came up, Bradley hit a three-point shot, and the two sides tied 95.
However, the timeout came back, Peltel scored consecutive baskets, Richardson hit a three-pointer, and the Spurs completed a 13-4 wave, leading by nine points, stopping the Lakers. The Lakers then bit the score again, but the Spurs blossomed more points, and Peltel scored consecutive points, breaking the Lakers' five small inside line. After that, the Spurs also had the last laugh. With this win, Popovich also tied nelson the elder.
Popovich, 73, has been coaching the Spurs since 1996 and is the longest-running coach of the same team in the four major U.S. professional sports leagues. In his coaching career, he led the Spurs to five championships, and he won the NBA Coach of the Year Award three times. In addition, he led the U.S. men's basketball team to the Olympic championship.
Now that the miracle has been accomplished, Popovich also has the first in double history. Not only did he tie nelson Sr. for first place in history with his regular season coaching wins, but counting his 170 wins in the playoffs, his overall coaching wins were also the first in history.
It is worth mentioning that nelson Sr. has been in charge for 31 years and has achieved a feat of 1335 wins in 2398 games. Popovich took a shorter time, he coached for 26 years, used 2028 games to achieve 1335 wins in the regular season, the winning rate is far more than the old Nelson, it can be said that today Popovich is the first coach in history, there are many coaches in this league who are his disciples, and it is not too much to describe it.