{"id":470725,"date":"2023-11-23T12:12:31","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T16:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=470725"},"modified":"2023-11-23T12:12:52","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T16:12:52","slug":"popovich-criticizes-spurs-fans-for-booing-kawhi-leonard","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/popovich-criticizes-spurs-fans-for-booing-kawhi-leonard\/","title":{"rendered":"Popovich criticizes Spurs fans for booing Kawhi Leonard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Antonio coach Gregg Popovich didn&#8217;t like the scenes when Spurs fans booed former star Kawhi Leonard and the Los Angeles Clippers. Halfway through the game the coach grabbed the microphone and chastised the crowd at the Frost Bank Center.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExcuse me for a second,\u201d Popovich said, silencing the crowd late in the first half. \u201cCan we stop all the booing and let these guys play? Have a little class. It\u2019s not who we are. Knock off the booing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leonard had 24 points as the Clippers beat San Antonio 109-102 on Wednesday night, handing the Spurs their 10th straight loss.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Gregg Popovich just took the mic and told Spurs Fans to stop Booing after Kawhi Leonard made a free throw<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RBGyXShwP2\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/RBGyXShwP2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Barstool Sports (@barstoolsports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/barstoolsports\/status\/1727512244446003449?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 23, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought that was an awesome moment, despite the fans booing, I think, even more,\u201d Clippers star Paul George said. \u201cI think that was a hell of a moment, Pop having Kawhi\u2019s back in that situation.\u201d Leonard has been jeered by Spurs fans since he demanded a trade in 2018 and jointed the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/toronto-raptors\/\">Toronto Raptors<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Antonio coach Gregg Popovich didn&#8217;t like the scenes when Spurs fans booed former star Kawhi Leonard and the Los Angeles Clippers. Halfway [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":470732,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18548,17987,17104],"news_category":[16706,14084],"gn_keywords":[18550,18927,18132],"acf":{"announce":"He grabbed the microphone halfway through the game against Clippers to stop the crowd","video":["video"]},"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\/470725"}],"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\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/470725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470734,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/470725\/revisions\/470734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470725"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=470725"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=470725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}