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Spurs coach Gregg Popovich: President Trump is a 'soulless coward'
Yahoo Sports ^ | October 16, 2017 | Samantha Pell

Posted on 10/16/2017 7:52:50 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff

San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich has never been shy when it comes to criticizing President Donald Trump and he continued Monday, calling Trump a “soulless coward.”

According to Dave Zirin of The Nation, Popovich called him Monday to vent after Trump attempted to defend his lack of public statements about the four United States soldiers who were killed in an ambush in Niger.

Speaking Monday his press availability, Trump said: “President Obama and other presidents, most of them didn’t make calls, a lot of them didn’t make calls. I like to call when it’s appropriate, when I think I’m able to do it.”


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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Don’t recall this guy saying Bupkis whenever Obama dissed the millitary, the police, the country...

Politics over country eh Popovich? You’re scum.


41 posted on 10/16/2017 9:19:32 PM PDT by Skywise
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Gregg Popovich had a soul but he sold it to his Master.


42 posted on 10/16/2017 9:24:20 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Makes me smile to know that Popovich is so tortured by the fact we now have a President who, unlike him, loves our country,.


43 posted on 10/16/2017 9:31:20 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Coming from a guy surrounded by his friends and likeminded people, I cannot take Popovitch seriously in the slightest.


44 posted on 10/16/2017 9:37:08 PM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: GuavaCheesePuff
Professional sports were enjoyable when owners, coaches, players did not discuss politics.

former NBA and NFL fan.

45 posted on 10/16/2017 9:48:47 PM PDT by HonkyTonkMan
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Not all that good of a coach, just a clown who rode the coattails of Tim Duncan for many years.


46 posted on 10/16/2017 9:59:47 PM PDT by Newtoidaho (Proud member of Trump's army of online trol)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Coach Popovich talks the liberal talk. Considering
the fact that the NBA is comprised of predominantly
black players he should walk the liberal walk by
relinquishing his lofty position and demanding that
a young aspiring black coach replace him.


47 posted on 10/16/2017 10:33:08 PM PDT by Sivad (NorCal red turf)
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To: Professional

I had preferred to watch NAIA and NCAA basketball but when Kobe was in a commercial lecturing us on PC language ..... and that was years ago.

Yeah, I need the NBA telling the rest of us what to do.

The NFL has gone extra stupid this year.

I would’t miss either of them at all.


48 posted on 10/16/2017 11:00:31 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

like nba players actually listen to those coaches....lol


49 posted on 10/16/2017 11:12:26 PM PDT by basalt
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To: GuavaCheesePuff
I've never seen anything like this, where public figures so openly and viciously attack a sitting president, impugning not only him but the millions of fellow citizens who voted for him. Popovich is beclowning himself - his behavior is childish and his statements are worse than anything Trump has ever said by several orders of magnitude.

There was a time when any head coach of any sports team would have been fired on the spot for resorting to school-yard name-calling against anyone, let alone the president. I guess those days are past in this oh so sensitive modern America.
50 posted on 10/16/2017 11:14:04 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: Mr. Mojo

this guys gonna crack up..he’ll never last 7 more years of Trump...lol...Trumps press conferences are must see tv....this is all so much fun.


51 posted on 10/16/2017 11:17:03 PM PDT by basalt
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To: Sarah Barracuda

There was an actual survey done about this with plot points, etc. inside a circle graph. The football fans were the most conservative, but tennis and basketball were significantly on the liberal side. Baseball was about in the middle but slightly liberal.

You probably have more anecdotal knowledge than me, however. I never warmed up to the Lakers while living in SoCAl.


52 posted on 10/17/2017 2:24:38 AM PDT by EliRoom8
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Pop, destroying my San Antonio Spurs one stupid, political, anti-Trump obsessive comment at a time.

It was a nice run Spurs (originally Gunslingers) back all the way to the HemisFair Arena, Red McCombs, James Silas, George Gervin, the American colored ball, and the ABA.

But it is no longer about the decades-long “Spurs family” and the game of basketball.


53 posted on 10/17/2017 2:31:36 AM PDT by rod1 (CTLY)
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To: Moorings

I loved the Spurs. I won’t be watching them now.


54 posted on 10/17/2017 2:32:58 AM PDT by Texas Songwriter (proawakileftist)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

San Antonio is as left as Austin, he is safe.


55 posted on 10/17/2017 3:58:22 AM PDT by TexasM1A
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Was he sober when he said this?


56 posted on 10/17/2017 5:41:13 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

There are a few. I used to work with a guy who was in the USAF Reserve and was a craven Obama suck and insisted that the fake Dan Rather letter was true.


57 posted on 10/17/2017 5:53:14 AM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Popabitch is still a gutless coward.


58 posted on 10/17/2017 6:56:26 AM PDT by ohioman
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To: Az Joe; Blue Jays
AssJoe: I am hoping to run into Popovich in an airport lobby sometime to knock his teeth out.

Blue Jays: At which time you would be immediately and correctly arrested by local law enforcement.

AssJoe: I was not aware of that. Can I use you for my information reference? I have never met anyone as intelligent as you. You are so great. You are wonderful. Why didn’t God just make you and no one else?

Are you a natural prick or did you have to work at it?

I know, I know, you are a natural.

59 posted on 10/17/2017 8:14:59 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The "news" networks and papers are bitter, dangerous enemies of the American people.)
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To: Lazamataz

Im tryin to keep up with you cophater.


60 posted on 10/17/2017 8:41:18 AM PDT by Az Joe (Gloria in excelsis Deo)
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