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Among the other assistants is San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich, who didn’t play for [Dean] Smith but who took a one-year sabbatical from college coaching in the 1980s to study under Smith.
— This is from a 2004 article, but few people know that Spurs head coach and four-time NBA champion Gregg Popovich spent a full sabbatical year learning from UNC legend Dean Smith in the 1980s. Is it any wonder the Spurs are widely regarded as the most fundamentally sound team in the NBA?
(Source: jacksonville.com)
