The Spurs head coach is prepared to speak his mind on Donald Trump, and doesn’t go in for niceties. The NBA could do with more like him
Gregg Popovich didn’t like what he saw happening around him and, per usual, wasn’t afraid to speak up about it. When asked about Donald Trump’s haphazardly implemented travel ban and its chaotic consequences, the San Antonio Spurs head coach blasted the current administration using some of the same terminology he would use to dress down his own team after a particularly embarrassing on-court performance: “We’ll see where this goes. Obviously the rollout today was Keystone Cops-like, by any measure of objectivity. Whether you want to say it’s good or bad is irrelevant. But it was Keystone Cops, and that’s scary.”
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