Gregg Popovich is not political. He is a pragmatist. Someone who looks at a situation critically before determining what the most practical solution is. Anyone who has followed the longtime San Antonio Spurs Head Coach knows this to be the case. His teams are the embodiment of basketball pragmatism.
That means Gregg Popovich is the man America needs at this time. Someone able to cut through the noise and make a frank assessment about where the country is heading. His recent comments on gun control and the nonsense taking place in Tennessee were the perfect example of this.
Nothing he said was wrong. Nor was it politically motivated. Popovich simply offered a pragmatic view of what was happening. This is perhaps the most damning statement:
“I mean, I couldn’t believe it, so I wrote this thing down, but Senator Marsha Blackburn, her comment after was, after the massacre, ‘My office is in contact with federal, state and local officials and we stand ready to assist.’ In what?! They’re dead! What are you going to assist with — cleaning up their brains off the wall, wiping the blood off the schoolroom floor? What are you going to assist with?”
Gregg Popovich said precisely what America needed to hear. Unfortunately, you can’t converse with people who are blind, deaf and dumb. In other words, conservatives.
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You know how I know Gregg Popovich is right?
Gregg Popovich is right. That was made clear when gun losers, sorry I mean advocates, started to criticize him. They didn’t go after any of his points. Instead, they attacked his coaching record over the past three seasons. Yeah, that will show him. By the way, here are some of Popovich’s accomplishments over the years:
- 5x NBA Champion
- 3x NBA Coach of the Year
- Olympic Gold Medalist
- Most regular season wins in NBA history
- 2nd most playoff wins in NBA history
Going after Popovich for losing games as part of a San Antonio Spurs rebuild in an attempt to justify a need to prevent gun control legislation defies logic. Nitpicking one of the greatest coaches in NBA history is basically admitting you know that you’re wrong but too stupid to accept reality.
On the other hand, guns continue to kill innocent people across the country simply because a minority of brainwashed hicks support greedy Republican candidates who don’t care about Americans. This has nothing to do with basketball and everything to do with not being a terrible person. Somehow conservatives can’t separate the two.
Gregg Popovich is a great coach, a great person and a great American. This isn’t a man swayed by politics or personal gain. And when he says something, the country should take heed.
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