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Despite an injury-marred season for the San Antonio Spurs, the task at hand has remained the same — a road to an NBA title. Head coach Gregg Popovich hasn't lowered the organization's goals or the approach to take fighting through the absence of his main player, Kawhi Leonard.
Recently, Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr praised the Spurs, and the Super Bowl-bound New England Patriots for their consistency and standard of excellence through the last couple of decades — as exemplary models of their respective professional league.
The Spurs have made won five NBA championships, having made the postseason the last 20 years under Popovich, while the Patriots have gone to eight Super Bowls in Bill Belichick's 18 years at the helm.
“You have that same dynamic of just incredible sustained success,” Kerr said, according to Melissa Rohlin of the San Jose Mercury News. “The thing I always think about with the Patriots and the Spurs, lots of Super Bowls, NBA finals, but lots of heartbreak too. There have been plenty of playoff games where they lost and they were devastated, but they keep coming back every year, like a machine.”
“I think that’s what everybody strives for in professional sports. Can you put yourself out there and give yourself a swing at the plate year after year? Can you accept that there’s going to be heartbreak and devastation, and keep going off the mat and hit a home run when you can?”
The Spurs are sitting in a solid third place on the West despite dealing with injury and a handing of the baton by their former starting point guard Tony Parker, and a recurring quad injury ailing Leonard, the team's best player.
Yet Popovich and company have plowed through obstacles and found ways to succeed with a next-man-up mentality, much like the Patriots through their years of great drafts and key free agent signings — defying odds and instances en route to ultimate success.
