As talked about beforehand, an article entitled “Pop’s Unimaginable Longevity” revealed that San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich has coached towards 307 totally different NBA coaches throughout his twenty-eight 12 months tenure on the helm.
Because the firing of Bob Hill in 1996, Pop has constantly coached the Spurs, give or take an ejection or two. Tonight the Spurs play the Houston Rockets.
Paradoxically, Houston has had extra consistency than most NBA groups.
The primary I-10 rival for Pop was legendary Rockets coach Rudy Tomjanovich, who was simply coming off back-to-back NBA Championships. Rudy T was with Houston for eleven seasons.
Jeff Van Gundy (2003-2007), had confronted off towards Pop and the Spurs within the 1999 NBA Finals.
Rick Adelman (2007-2011) had seen Pop in his time with Golden State and Sacramento.
Boston Celtics legend Kevin McHale spent 4 seasons between 2011-2015 constructing and enhancing on the Rockets success in every season, however a 4-7 begin to 2015 obtained him fired.
He was changed by J. B Bickerstaff who accomplished the season with a 37-34 report and a visit to the playoffs.
Longtime Spurs nemesis Mike D’Antoni (2016-2020) spent a number of seasons dropping to the Spurs whereas serving as head ocahc of the Denver Nuggets, Phoenix Suns, New York Knicks, and Los Angeles Lakers earlier than his time in Houston.
Stephen Silas (2020-2023) spent his whole NBA teaching profession as an assistant. Beginning in 2000, he spent a number of seasons with Charlotte- with the Hornets, the New Orleans Hornets, Bobcats, and once more after they reclaimed the Hornets monicker. He additionally labored with Cleveland, Golden State, and Dallas. He left on the finish of 2023 and at present assists in Detroit.
Eight coaches, a lot of whom have spectacular resumes. The Rockets don’t have a historical past of dropping coaches midseason. Every of the coaches, except Silas and Bickerstaff, have not less than 4 seasons to make their case. That custom goes again to the 80s.
The present head coach is former Spurs participant and assistant coach Ime Udoka. Udoka met his mentor the earlier two years as head coach of the Boston Celtics.
That is the fourth and last assembly of the interstate rivals, an opportunity for the Spurs to even up the season sequence.
Go Spurs Go!
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