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San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich calls Trump 'pathetic' during long rant [one week prior to election]
San Antonio Current ^ | 10/28/2024 | Sanford Nowlin

Posted on 11/20/2024 5:25:33 PM PST by simpson96

San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich has once again unloaded on former President Donald Trump, this time calling the Republican presidential nominee a "pathetic," "damaged" and a "whiner."

Responding to a French reporter's question Saturday about the impact of the upcoming presidential election on U.S. democracy, Popovich unleashed a 13-minute triage against the former reality-show businessman.

"He's a pathetic individual," said Popovich, the winningest coach in NBA history. "He's a small man who has to make everybody around him smaller so he thinks he's gonna be bigger — and isn't that the same thing we tell all of our kids in grade school? That's not how you act. That's not what you do."

Popovich has verbally assailed Trump multiple times since the 2016 election, criticizing the former president over his lies and for "wield[ing] race like a weapon."

During Saturday's presser, Pop also voiced concern that Americans might sit out the election and allow Trump to win a damaging second term.

"I hope that they won't stay home, that they'll understand that this guy is a scam artist," the coach said. "He's great at it. I'll give him credit for that. He's the best ever, but he makes you want to puke."


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Sports
KEYWORDS: coach; sports; tds; trump
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To: simpson96

Gee… that’s a shame.


21 posted on 11/20/2024 6:43:39 PM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: ripnbang
What’s this NBA thing?

The men's version of the WNBA.

22 posted on 11/20/2024 7:06:54 PM PST by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: spel_grammer_an_punct_polise
So much for the former Army Intelligence Officer

He went to the Air Force Academy.

23 posted on 11/20/2024 7:09:31 PM PST by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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To: simpson96

So is Trump what got him to stroke out? I never liked the dude.


24 posted on 11/20/2024 7:17:33 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: simpson96

Steve kerr, popovich. They massage excellent physical specimens to perform well, cause the players want the money
These coaches manage teams in a league that is a monopolistic trust. Exempt from anti-trust laws. Trying to act egalitarian while benefitting from a trust. How hypocritical can one be?
It would be fun to threaten to revoke the trust exemption...and see what happens to these clowns. They’d be coaching for living wages.


25 posted on 11/20/2024 7:18:33 PM PST by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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To: Mark17

Oops! Air Force Intelligence Officer! Thank you! ;-)


26 posted on 11/20/2024 7:46:10 PM PST by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Learn three chords and you, too, can be a Rock Star!)
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To: simpson96
"San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich calls Trump 'pathetic'

Yo Papabitch, look who's talkin'

27 posted on 11/20/2024 8:25:24 PM PST by Enterprise (These people have no honor, no belief, no poetry, no art, no humor, no patriotism.)
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To: No name given

What a douche bag Scratchanitch is.


28 posted on 11/20/2024 9:30:35 PM PST by Hyman Roth
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To: spel_grammer_an_punct_polise
Oops! Air Force Intelligence Officer! Thank you! ;-)

You’re welcome. Now, how much intelligence, this former intelligence officer has, is open to debate. I don’t think he has much intelligence et all. 😂
By the way, I can’t believe a chump like that, could actually graduate from the Air Force academy.

29 posted on 11/20/2024 10:08:33 PM PST by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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To: simpson96

Is it wrong of me to laugh?


30 posted on 11/21/2024 12:32:13 AM PST by mbrfl
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To: simpson96

How many more Lakhan Riley’s would have had to die if a-holes like this had gotten their way?


31 posted on 11/21/2024 12:40:34 AM PST by mbrfl
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