When it was announced on Wednesday night that Gregg Popovich's wife, Erin, had passed, the whole NBA world was turned upside and it seems that everyone was shocked by the tragic event.
That was no different for Boston Celtics coach Brad Stevens who has a good relationship with the San Antonio Spurs coach. Stevens discussed how it reminds everyone how little basketball actually means in the grand scheme of things, per ESPN's Chris Forsberg.
“Super sad. All of our thoughts and prayers from our whole organization are with Gregg, his family and the entire Spurs organization. It's just another reminder of how unimportant this game is compared to everything else that's going on.”
Erin had been dealing with an illness since the 1990's according to the San Antonio-Express News. Gregg and Erin had been married four decades and had two children. The Spurs announced earlier today that assistant coach Ettore Messina would coach Game 3 on Thursday night against the Golden State Warriors.
“I spoke to Pop this morning,” General Manager R.C. Buford told the Express-News on Thursday. “He’s overwhelmed by the support. He’s very appreciative of the love that’s been shared with our group, and with him and his family and Erin’s family. As you’d expect from Pop, he wants our focus to be about the game today, about this series, and that’s what today will be about. We’ll miss Erin a lot, and the focus of our team will be on supporting Pop. But we’ve got basketball to get back to.”
For the Spurs, the key thing they will have to remember is that even with all that's going on they still have a big game to play, and a game that they can't afford to lose.
It will be interesting to see how well the Spurs come out and rally together for their head coach.
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