This thread shows me how many dumbfvcks we have on Spurstalk.
Pop was huge in creating the culture that is the Spurs. People who think Pop just stumbled into five championships don't know basketball. He created and maintained the culture that existed here. He and RC put the talent around Tim, and were able to retain it, to keep the Spurs at the top of the league for all those years. The Spurs weren't the best team in pro sports for two decades by sheer luck.
Lots of teams have talented rosters and don't do sh!t with it. We as fans had two decades of knowing we could contend for a le every year. That's unheard of in sports.
He's not perfect, but man he's given us a great era of basketball, and he deserves credit for that as much as Tim, Manu, Tony and David. It's sad that Spurs fans are so willing to kick dirt on him, now, when he's working on rebuilding a roster with late-in-the-draft players. He's earned a ton of grace in my opinion. He'll be missed if he leaves. MoSpur is a good source of info, but I hope he's wrong in this case.