DBMethos
06-05-2013, 12:16 PM
Apologies if already posted.
"MIAMI -- Six long years. A whopping six years have somehow passed since four-time champ Tim Duncan has had the chance to play for a ring.
Which also means that Gregg Popovich, amazingly, has never had the chance to zing a sideline reporter on the game's grandest stage.
Duncan, Popovich and the San Antonio Spurs haven't been to the NBA Finals since 2007. The rules requiring both coaches to be interviewed during nationally televised games were instituted starting with the 2007-08 season. Do the math and you quickly conclude that history will be made Thursday night, when Popovich, for the first time in his five trips to the championship round, is forced to field two questions from a microphone-toting intruder while the game is actually going on.
His interactions with the Doris Burkes, David Aldridges and Craig Sagers of the basketball universe have evolved into some of the most anticipated appointment television that the NBA can serve up. So to properly prepare for Burke's visit with San Antonio's famously cranky coach, leading into the second quarter of Game 1 of the 2013 Finals, ESPN.com has commissioned a deep dive into Pop's (very) reluctant coexistence with sideline reporters.
A detailed look at what it's like for them, what it's like for him … and how it all got to be so prickly -- and so must-see -- in this age of near-instantaneous video posting."
Read more here: http://espn.go.com/nba/playoffs/2013/story/_/id/9341250/gregg-popovich-vs-sideline-reporters
"MIAMI -- Six long years. A whopping six years have somehow passed since four-time champ Tim Duncan has had the chance to play for a ring.
Which also means that Gregg Popovich, amazingly, has never had the chance to zing a sideline reporter on the game's grandest stage.
Duncan, Popovich and the San Antonio Spurs haven't been to the NBA Finals since 2007. The rules requiring both coaches to be interviewed during nationally televised games were instituted starting with the 2007-08 season. Do the math and you quickly conclude that history will be made Thursday night, when Popovich, for the first time in his five trips to the championship round, is forced to field two questions from a microphone-toting intruder while the game is actually going on.
His interactions with the Doris Burkes, David Aldridges and Craig Sagers of the basketball universe have evolved into some of the most anticipated appointment television that the NBA can serve up. So to properly prepare for Burke's visit with San Antonio's famously cranky coach, leading into the second quarter of Game 1 of the 2013 Finals, ESPN.com has commissioned a deep dive into Pop's (very) reluctant coexistence with sideline reporters.
A detailed look at what it's like for them, what it's like for him … and how it all got to be so prickly -- and so must-see -- in this age of near-instantaneous video posting."
Read more here: http://espn.go.com/nba/playoffs/2013/story/_/id/9341250/gregg-popovich-vs-sideline-reporters