"What are your plans for the future?" Will it be back next season? ”
After losing 103-113 to the Pelicans in the playoffs, the Spurs officially ended their 2021-22 season.
And the team's biggest focus now, head coach Popovich, once again, does not ask questions about his retirement.
"It's not appropriate to ask that question now."
Perhaps Bobo himself did not think about whether he would continue his coaching career for 25 consecutive years.
In the final game, He brought into the Dream Team's Karton Johnson 23 points, New Konko All-Star De Zhangtai Murray 16 points, 9 boards and 5 assists, the team six double-doubles
They've all become very good NBA players.
Just this game opposite Ingram 27 points, 5 boards and 5 assists, McCollum in the second quarter of the single quarter 19 points, the whole game 32 points.
Popovich knows better than anyone that the playoffs are fighting for top talent, and they are actually missing a Duncan or Manu, or even Leonard and Parker back.
They will also immediately become a championship-level strong team.
But that's the third consecutive season they missed the playoffs. It was the first time it had been renamed the San Antonio Spurs in the 1973-74 season.
Bobo, it's time to say goodbye.
He has dedicated 34 years to the team, coached for 26 years, and won five championships and the first 1,344 wins in history for the team.
He brought out the great "GDP" combination of Duncan, Manu, and Parker, and cultivated Leonard. Even now he has single-handedly cultivated Dezhangtai Murray into an All-Star.
Enough, really, he's done great enough.
Even after he leaves, the NBA still has enough of him.
Defending champion Bucks head coach Budenholzer was Bobo's assistant coach from 1996 until 2013.
Udoka, the second-best greens coach in the East and no. 1 defensive in the league, played at the Spurs for four years (2007-10) before retiring in 2012 as an assistant coach at the Spurs until 2019.
The season's biggest surprise, the league's second-place Grizzlies head coach, 37-year-old Jenkins, was the Spurs' video editor, assistant coach and development league coach from 2006-12. He later served as Budenholzer's assistant coach until he was invited by the Grizzlies' head coach in 2019.
Jazz coach Schneider and Hornets coach Boyland were both members of the Spurs' "coaching team."
This does not take into account the Suns coach Monty Williams and the Warriors head coach Steve Kerr, this kind of "only" is a "transfer student" who has played for the Spurs as a player and has not been in the Spurs coaching staff.
So even if we don't see Popovich and spurs in the playoffs this year, how likely is it that this year's finals will replicate last year's "Spurs" coach civil war?