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Advertise in Action Magazine • DEPARTMENTS • Sam Kindrick ..........................................4 Editor & Publisher ................Sam Kindrick • FEATURE • Advertising Sales ....................Action Staff ..........................................Amy Heller Reif Patti Witten ..............................................8 Photography.............................Action Staff Distribution............................Ronnie Reed Composition..........................Elise Taquino Volume 43 • Number 12 Action Magazine, December 2018 • 3 • Sports related subjects published in Action over time. Was Leonard an over-paid crybaby who might the years have been under the byline of one Jacques And then Tim Duncan landed in Popovich’s lap, have left the Spurs eventually over some other real or E. Strap. a stroke of sheer luck which guaranteed Gregg imagined affront? That is a possibility. Is he a quitter who It is now time for old Jacques to come out of the Popovich more than a few NBA titles. didn’t care enough about his coach or his team mates closet and confront a nasty, controversial subject in his Donald Duck could have coached a winning to even show up for the Spurs dying gasps in the play - alter ego form which (or course) happens to be me. team with Robinson and Duncan working the boards. offs. That is also a possibility. I have been a Spurs fan since the San Antonio The proof is always in the pudding. These are questions that are certainly worthy team joined the NBA in 1976. It has been many years Old Pop is now experiencing life without a of consideration. since I drank coffee with a young George Gervin in a Robinson, a Tim Duncan, or a Manu Ginobili. With or Then there is the other awful, ugly, and vey real Wurzbach Road Toddle House. without Kawhi Leonard, the Spurs boat was bound to possibility. Meeting David Robinson and Manu Ginobili on start springing leaks. Leonard is a two-way basketball Did the greatest Spurs player since Tim Duncan separate occasions in the Apple Store at La Cantera talent, but he lacks the character or the leadership skills leave the team because of a head coach who paid more provided other memories which I will always cherish. to maintain a dynasty. attention to Donald Trump bashing than he did to the The measure of greatness reflected in the persona of With Tony Parker electing to finish his illustrious young superstar he once dubbed the franchise face? any truly great person can best be assessed by that per - basketball career in Charlotte, and with Leonard now What really happened between Leonard and son’s humility level. gone to the Toronto Raptors, the Spurs organization Popovich. Humility is the middle name of David Robinson, needs a fearless and searching inventory of its key peo - The platitude-loaded letter of farewell Leonard Tim Duncan, and Manu Ginobili, the last superstar to ple and parts. allegedly penned for the team and Spurs fans in San leave the Spurs. These are the players who helped If he ever had any real focus, Pop has lost it. He Antonio is a joke. He obviously didn’t write it shape and define what was once San Antonio’s team. lost it when he divided the Spurs fan base with a need - Kawhi has kept his lip zipped on particulars, but Peter Holt is a personal friend of mine whose less and he has made it obviously clear that he wanted no more majority ownership of the Spurs was a credit to San An - idiotic series of verbal attacks on Donald Trump. of San Antonio and the Spurs. Something happened tonio’s team. And I had the good fortune of meeting and At this point, I will reiterate what I have said be - to sour Leonard on Popovich. Bet on it and believe it. learning to love former Spurs coach John Lucas as we fore. I am no fan of President Trump. I did not vote for Kawhi’s disdain for the Spurs and San Antonio has not both participated in a recovery program for alcoholics Trump and I will not vote for Trump, and my personal po - become manifest because Leonard didn’t like enchi - and drug addicts. litical predillections have absolutely nothing to do with ladas and refried beans. With these and many more fond memories of my low opinion of the basketball coach. The elephant of Serbian descent is sitting in the Spurs legend now in jeopardy, I see something in By using his standing as an NBA head basket - the Spurs living room, slurping his wine and putting today’s team which is both sad and infuriating to many. ball coach as a platform for pot-shooting at the president down those he says should be ashamed of being Amer - The Spurs are no longer San Antonio’s team. of the United States, Gregg Popovich chose to shit on icans. The Spurs are now Gregg Popovich’s team. every Republican Spurs fan who voted for the current Meanwhile, Pop is surrounding himself with a And something is gravely wrong with the Spurs president, and the Spurs who were once San Antonio’s stable of newcomers as the team faces mediocrity or today, a condition which may be attributed to an arro - team and their fans do not deserve this divisive treat - worse. LaMarcus Aldridge, Demar DeRozan, and Rudy gant self-annointed activist who is more demigod than ment. No matter who they may or may not have sup - Gay will have a rough Western Conference road to hoe basketball coach. ported in the last presidential election. This is not about with Golden State, Houston, and L.A. I know the Pop lovers will hiss and spit at this politics. It is about Popovich and the basketball team Hottest prospect going is first round draft pick assessment, and they can take their bile to Walgreens that once belonged to the people of San Antonio. Lonnie Walker IV, the now-injured youngster with the for all I care. I have no more respect for Gregg Popovich Before the Pop lovers start reminding me of the rooster comb hairdo who says he would never celebrate than he has ever demonstrated for the luckless media NBA greats who say they would prefer to play for the Fourth of July. people he has been treating like sewer scum for many Popovich over any other coach, let us look at the sorry He will probably be a good fit in the Gregg years. situation of today. Popovich culture. Being a Spurs fan was always Coach Popovich had it all planned out when he Kawhi Leonard thought he was disrespected by fun for me. I have Spurs caps and shirts and I have al - was the Spurs general manager with David Robinson those who took dim views of his decision to seek out - ways displayed Spurs emblems on my truck and in the fold. By firing head coach Bob Hill, who by all re - side medical help for a nagging quadriceps injury. car.Being a Spurs fan is getting harder, and we have ports had been doing a good job as head coach, So how about it, Spurs fans? Gregg Popovich to thank for it. Popovich started paving his own street to the NBA big - • 4 • Action Magazine, December 2018 Musician compares cancer to runaway train by Jim Chesnut thing. Although it wasn’t a fore I would learn that the would ultimately deter - the impact of the runaway to take that for granted. I Thanksgiving day homerun, it resulted in a cancer cells lived only in mine—a long week later— train that had hit me, I got continue to practice a mo - marked one year since I trip to the doctor for a cure my throat above the vocal that the tumor was on board. I rode that ment-to-moment attitude completed chemo and ra - for what I caught and cords and nowhere else in malignant. It seemed like a sucker bareback, ac - of gratitude that I learned diation for cancer. might have caught. the body. runaway train had hit me! cepted where it was taking while riding the runaway I recall that as I was It turns out that that af - Months before the Treatment soon began, me, and enjoyed a train.
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