{"id":439493,"date":"2023-07-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-09T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.7sport.net\/en\/news-single\/lebron-congratulates-popovich-for-new-spurs-contract\/"},"modified":"2023-07-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-09T04:00:00","slug":"lebron-congratulates-popovich-for-new-spurs-contract","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/lebron-congratulates-popovich-for-new-spurs-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron congratulates Popovich for new Spurs contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gregg Popovich has just signed a five-year contract extension with the San Antonio Spurs and LeBron James was quick to congratulate the experienced coach.<\/p>\n<p>James, who has spent time with Popovich with USA Basketball, has offered plenty of praise for the longtime San Antonio coach, and he took to Twitter to show his admiration.<\/p>\n<p>Popovich has been part of San Antonio for most of his career, barring a two-year spell from 1992 to 1994, when he was an assistant at the Warriors.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">POP!!!!!! Congrats on the new deal. Next wine dinner on you  <\/p>\n<p>\u2014 LeBron James (@KingJames) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KingJames\/status\/1678021223484362753?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 9, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 74-year-old became the Spurs\u2019 head coach in 1996-97 and has posted 64.2% regular-season win percentage with 1,366 career wins, along with a 170-114 record in the postseason.<\/p>\n<p>He has led San Antonio to 5 NBA championship and has been awarded with Coach of the year on three occasions (2003, 2012 and 2014).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gregg Popovich has just signed a five-year contract extension with the San Antonio Spurs and LeBron James was quick to congratulate the experienced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":439494,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18548,16972,17104],"news_category":[20292],"gn_keywords":[18550,17644,18132],"acf":{"news_source":null,"link_picture":null,"announce":"The Lakers star send a touching message to the veteran coach","video":null},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/439493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/439493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439493"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=439493"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=439493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}