San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich had kind words for many people along the way in his career as he entered the Hall of Fame.
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00:00 Everybody in San Antonio was taking bets, or so it seems anyway, on how long Greg Popovich's
00:05 Hall of Fame speech would be.
00:08 We all lost if you took the under if it was 10 minutes, because it was certainly more
00:11 than 10 minutes.
00:13 Pop showed a rare thing in actually recognizing his own family, which is very rare for him.
00:20 A man who's always kept the Spurs, the Spurs, and his personal life just that.
00:25 He recognized not just his daughter and son, but his own grandchildren, even at one point
00:30 having them stand up.
00:32 Who is this old man?
00:33 Who is this Greg Popovich?
00:34 Well, admittedly, in his speech that he gave on the weekend, Pop says he's gotten softer.
00:40 He joked, and at 74, why not?
00:43 The perspective is as clear as it's ever been, but that does not mean that he does not have
00:47 the same vigor, the same intensity for getting the current group of Spurs back to where these
00:52 old Spurs used to be.
00:54 Greg Popovich may be a little bit less volatile.
00:59 He may cuss a little bit less, but the role that he has in developing Victor Wim Benyama
01:04 is just as important to him as it was for that other young French kid that showed up
01:09 here all those years ago named Tony Parker.
01:11 So as Greg Popovich gets ready to coach this first year of Victor Wim Benyama, he is now
01:17 officially put to bed the old story of the old guys, with Parker now also being enshrined
01:23 into the Hall of Fame and his own speech now behind him, Pop can get on to the matters
01:27 at hand, and that is developing Victor Wim Benyama.
01:30 Tony Parker called Greg Popovich a second father during his speech on Saturday, and
01:35 maybe one day Victor Wim Benyama will look back as he stands on that podium in Springfield
01:39 and call Pop a second grandfather.
01:41 Whatever the case, whatever Victor Wim Benyama is going to be, phase one begins now, and
01:47 it's all in the hands of that same guy, Greg Popovich.
01:50 On the Spurs and the NBA, I'm Mike Taylor.
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