Whenever San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich decides to retire, Kansas coach Bill Self isn't going to replace him.
Self, one of the best coaches in college, is very close friends with Spurs general manager R.C. Buford, but he has no plans to take over for Popovich once the legendary tactician retires:
“If I know anybody, I probably know R.C. Buford. He showed me around my recruiting visits to Oklahoma State, he was responsible for getting me up here primarily as a graduate assistant at Kansas, I lived with him for a year, he was in my wedding and I was in his wedding, his son played for me, my son now works for him,” Bill Self told Tom Osborn of the San Antonio Express-News.
“So, people may say whatever because we are buddies, which we are, and proud of that. But I am not going to be the next coach of the San Antonio Spurs, nor would he want me to be. I mean, they got arguably the greatest coach of all time that still has got a lot of gas in the tank. So, that is a rumor I know some people have said, but that is a pretty ridiculous one right there.”
Gregg Popovich signed a three-year extension with the Spurs in April, but he’s also widely known to be taking a year-by-year approach at this stage of his career. Pop is 71 and has been working with the Spurs since 1988.
As everyone probably knows, Popovich is one of the best coaches in NBA history. He has won five NBA championships with the Spurs as head coach and advanced to the NBA playoffs in a league-record 22 consecutive years.
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