{"id":155520,"date":"2018-04-19T03:58:23","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T10:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bilcomprd.wpengine.com\/?p=155520"},"modified":"2023-06-12T14:48:54","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T21:48:54","slug":"the-nba-family-mourns-the-loss-of-erin-popovich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/the-nba-family-mourns-the-loss-of-erin-popovich\/","title":{"rendered":"The NBA Family Mourns The Loss Of Erin Popovich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"571\" height=\"420\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-155521\" src=\"https:\/\/dsz7vodgjx60a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/bil-erin.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dsz7vodgjx60a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/bil-erin.jpg 571w, https:\/\/dsz7vodgjx60a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/bil-erin-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 571px) 100vw, 571px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Gregg Popovich has received a lot of praise over the past two decades for being an exceptional NBA head coach with the San Antonio Spurs and a father figure to a long list of some of the greatest professional basketball players of all-time. As a married man of 17 years, I think he and his wife, Erin Popovich, deserve just as much praise for four decades of marriage that has produced two kids and two grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Erin passed away at the age of 67 after&nbsp;battling an illness for an extended period.<\/p>\n<p>\"We mourn the loss of Erin,\" Spurs general manager R.C. Buford said in a statement. \"She was a strong, wonderful, kind, intelligent woman who provided love, support and humor to all of us.&nbsp;The organization asks media to respect the family\u2019s privacy during this difficult time.\"<\/p>\n<p>Most of us heard of her passing as media members shocked NBA players with the news in practices and in LeBron's case, right after a game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously I\u2019m a huge Pop fan. I love Pop. That\u2019s such a tragedy,\u201d LeBron James said during a controversial postgame TNT interview with Allie LaForce \u201cMy best wishes go out to Pop and his family.&nbsp;I know that\u2019s devastating news. It\u2019s just a lot. The NBA family, we stick together. I know we compete every night. but something like this happens and it just puts everything in perspective. \u2026 I know the man above never makes a mistake, even when sometimes you have to ask why, but that\u2019s just terrible news, and my best of luck to Pop and everyone in San Antonio and the whole Spurs family.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gregg Popovich has received a lot of praise over the past two decades for being an exceptional NBA&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":155524,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8316,1444,3,74,23],"tags":[],"featured":[],"class_list":["post-155520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-all-blogs","category-nba","category-nba-videos","category-video"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.4 - 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