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SVP pays tribute to Gregg Popovich (3:25)
Upon quality Gregg Popovich has stepped down arsenic manager of the Spurs, Scott Van Pelt raises a solid to his stellar career. (3:25)
Associated Press
Jul 2, 2025, 02:17 PM ET
The NBA has adjusted all-time wins person Gregg Popovich's vocation grounds arsenic manager of the San Antonio Spurs, removing the 77 games that helium missed past play and crediting those wins and losses to caller Spurs manager Mitch Johnson.
Popovich's last grounds has been reset to 1,390-824, which is wherever it was entering a crippled connected Nov. 2. That was the time that Popovich had a changeable astatine the team's arena successful San Antonio and Johnson, 1 of his adjunct coaches, took implicit arsenic acting coach.
Popovich missed the remainder of the play and Johnson coached the last 77 games, going 32-45. The NBA and the Spurs agreed that it made consciousness to region those games from Popovich's grounds and recognition them to Johnson, who was named caput manager erstwhile Popovich announced his status earlier this year.
"While my emotion and passionateness for the crippled remain, I've decided it's clip to measurement distant arsenic caput coach," Popovich said erstwhile revealing that decision. He remains successful spot arsenic Spurs president and is inactive astir the franchise arsenic overmuch arsenic helium can.
It is not unprecedented for the NBA to set win-loss totals. The NBA made a akin determination regarding the Los Angeles Lakers successful the 1979-80 season; Jack McKinney was caput manager and was earnestly injured successful a bicycle mishap successful November, which led to Paul Westhead taking implicit connected an interim basis. Westhead was yet hired arsenic caput coach; the NBA credits McKinney with a 10-4 grounds that twelvemonth and Westhead with going 50-18.
The revised numbers bash small to impact the NBA grounds books. Popovich remains the winningest manager successful league history, 53 wins up of Don Nelson's 1,335 victories. Popovich's winning percent goes up somewhat from .621 to .628, which - among coaches with 400 games - is seventh successful NBA past down Phil Jackson, Billy Cunningham, K.C. Jones, Red Auerbach, Steve Kerr and Pat Riley.
