Gregg Popovich and Tony Parker, two San Antonio Spurs icons, enter the National Basketball Hall of Fame.
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00:00 I'm not sure what the word is, maybe fitting, maybe even poetic that this
00:04 week when Greg Popovich gets inducted into the hall of fame, Tony Parker will
00:09 go right inside along with him.
00:11 A 19 year old French kid shows up in the middle of the Tim Duncan
00:16 prime of his career era.
00:18 And Greg Popovich had to trust this kid to run that offense.
00:22 Tony Parker may have been out of the league after a year in the NBA.
00:25 Had he not handled the tough love from pop that first year, it was very
00:29 difficult, very difficult.
00:31 And Parker thankfully took that hard coaching and made himself into what he
00:37 is now, which is about to be a hall of famer.
00:39 He could have taken it the other way, had his confidence ruined the way
00:42 Popovich verbally abused him that first year, but he took it thankfully for the
00:47 Spurs the way he did in which he became a legend, a guy that would win the 2007
00:52 NBA finals, a guy that would be the coxswain of the beautiful game.
00:56 The Spurs came to be known as offensively under Tony Parker's point guard.
01:01 Tootled seems poetic that pop took a 19 year old kid knew the only way to get
01:07 what he needed to get out of him was to be mean and Parker took it the right way.
01:11 Understood the big picture and their family now, and they go into
01:14 the hall of fame together.
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