{"id":18594,"date":"2025-05-08T13:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T13:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/18594\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T13:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T13:12:09","slug":"kawhi-leonard-on-gregg-popovichs-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/18594\/","title":{"rendered":"Kawhi Leonard on Gregg Popovich\u2019s retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"ZmaQBx\">Kawhi Leonard started his NBA career being drafted 15th in 2011 and immediately being traded to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poundingtherock.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Antonio Spurs<\/a>. He spent seven seasons with the Silver &amp; Back earning his first NBA title as well as the Finals MVP honors in 2014, back-to-back DPOY awards in 2015 and 2016, as well as his first two All-Star nods. <\/p>\n<p id=\"ulIpdB\">Although his exit from San Antonio was met by animosity for many fans, his relationship with Coach Pop continued to evolve long after Leonard had left.<\/p>\n<p id=\"Hsfhpy\">The other night after the Los Angeles Clippers were eliminated from the NBA postseason, Kawhi spoke briefly regarding hearing about Pop\u2019s retirement.<\/p>\n<p id=\"1nMMRh\">Fans may recall that The Klaw has endured a barrage of boos every time he returns to San Antonio. On November 22, 2023, Pop had enough of the vitriol ad took the microphone from the in-arena announcer and addressed the crowd directly. <\/p>\n<p id=\"1tvRMi\">The moment a transitioned into a touchstone of fan\u2019s emotional state toward Leonard. But more importantly, it was a stark example of Pop\u2019s ability to speak his mind and to command attention in the moment.<\/p>\n<p id=\"aardBf\">Welcome to The Thread. Join in the conversation, start your own discussion, and share your thoughts. This is the Spurs community, your Spurs community. Thanks for being here.<\/p>\n<p id=\"qlhrTq\">Our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poundingtherock.com\/community-guidelines\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">community guidelines<\/a> apply which should remind everyone to be cool, avoid personal attacks, do not troll and watch the language.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kawhi Leonard started his NBA career being drafted 15th in 2011 and immediately being traded to the San&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3789],"tags":[7,559,28,3390,850,4034,192,4032,851,251,135,4033,4031,6,1385,3391,538,5611,539,42,2000,64],"class_list":{"0":"post-18594","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-clippers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-clippers","10":"tag-front-page","11":"tag-gregg","12":"tag-kawhi","13":"tag-la","14":"tag-la-clippers","15":"tag-laclippers","16":"tag-leonard","17":"tag-los-angeles","18":"tag-los-angeles-clippers","19":"tag-losangeles","20":"tag-losangelesclippers","21":"tag-nba","22":"tag-on","23":"tag-popovich","24":"tag-pounding","25":"tag-retirement","26":"tag-rock","27":"tag-s","28":"tag-spurs-discussion-threads","29":"tag-the"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114472389548980058","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}