At the age of 73, Gregg Popovich will embrace the process and has Brett Brown back to...
At the age of 73 and with every built-in excuse to walk away from what he once said he’d never abide, coach Gregg Popovich is embracing the depths of the Spurs’ rebuild.Gregg Popovich has a new dinner partner. If history is any guide, basketball usually won’t be on the conversation menu.
“The Process,” of course, was the way Philadelphia termed its strategy of sacrificing the present for the future, and Brown was the poor fella who was put in charge of managing the misery. During his first four years as the Sixers’ head coach, from 2013-17, they averaged 63 losses per season, which was part of the plan.
That season, the Spurs were on their way to finishing 32-39, their first losing mark in more than two decades. Two more playoff-less campaigns followed. Now, after the Spurs traded Dejounte Murray to Atlanta for a haul of draft picks, it’s all but certain that a fourth consecutive losing season awaits.