Sources: Popovich signs 5-year deal worth $80M

The NBA’s all-time winningest coach has a brand new deal.

The san antonio spurs introduced on Saturday that Gregg Popovich, who has led the franchise to 5 NBA championships, has agreed to a brand new five-year contract with the workforce.

Popovich’s deal is value greater than $80 million, sources instructed ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, surpassing the worth of Monty Williams’ six-year, $78.5 million deal he signed earlier this summer time with the Detroit Pistons.

Popovich, 74, handed Don Nelson in March 2022 for essentially the most profession wins by a coach in NBA historical past. Following the 2022-23 season, Popovich has a profession report of 1,366 wins and 761 losses. He is additionally third all-time in playoff victories (170).

Popovich additionally serves because the Spurs’ president of basketball operations, and it is attainable his new deal permits him to earn out the contract even when he does not coach the complete 5 years.

Popovich took over because the interim coach for San Antonio in 1996. The workforce drafted Tim Duncan the next season after profitable the NBA lottery and began a streak of twenty-two consecutive journeys to the playoffs.

That streak led to 2019-20, and the Spurs have had 4 consecutive dropping seasons. Nonetheless, they gained the lottery as soon as once more and chosen French huge man Victor Wembanyamawho has been heralded as top-of-the-line basketball prospects of all time.

Following the draft, Popovich talked about how a lot he loved this previous season regardless of going 22-60.

“We loved the season as a result of we had such nice guys character-wise that it did not matter what number of we misplaced in a row, what mattered was the movie session the following day and what we’ve got to do, they usually’d be at apply or the following recreation and attempt to fulfill every little thing we needed them to do,” Popovich mentioned.

“So in a way, it was some of the — it will sound unusual — extra satisfying years. It was enjoyable in a manner, not being on TV a lot and also you simply go to work and you do not fear about outcomes aside from gamers growing and a workforce understanding going ahead.”