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Flying Coach With Sean McVay and Peter Schrager

Gregg Popovich on America in 2020, the Leadership Void, and What Needs to Change

Flying Coach With Sean McVay and Peter Schrager

The Ringer

Sports

4.6855 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2020

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Steve and Pete are joined by San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich to have a conversation about the state of our nation, how we got here as a country, our absence of leadership, and how we can take action to grow and bring about change following the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer. Host: Steve Kerr and Pete Carroll Guest: Gregg Popovich This show is raising money for COVID-19 relief. You can help! Donate here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Flying Coach Podcast, Podcast, Steve Kerr, Pete Carroll, and our special guest today,

0:20.0

somebody who would normally be introduced with all kinds of accolades attached to his name but I know him too well

0:27.9

So I'm gonna I'm gonna cut the BS Greg Popovich. Thanks for coming on today

0:33.0

Thank you for that, Steve. Appreciated it very, very much.

0:37.0

That's not much of an introduction, Steve, but that's great, it's perfect.

0:41.0

Obviously you guys got history. I have to be honest, I, you know, I played for Pop for four years, Pete, and coached with him last

0:49.6

summer in the World Cup.

0:51.7

I've never felt as nervous as I was today. I think I now understand

0:56.5

the sideline reporters and what they actually feel as they go into NBA games

1:01.5

like knowing they got to interview pop at the end of the first

1:04.3

quarter I'm kind of I'm kind of antsy a little bit. You know that's just a stick right? Oh yeah that's

1:10.9

right we'll talk about that at another time.

1:14.0

Obviously, very, very difficult week in our country and I think more than anything today I just want to have a really open conversation

1:29.0

with with two coaches who have meant a lot to me in terms of mentoring and who I've learned so

1:38.1

much from and who are also really well connected to their players through relationships and I just want to have a

1:45.3

conversation on what's happening in the country, race relations, where we're heading,

1:51.5

how we can actually create change in our country, and maybe what our

1:57.0

places, our small place is in that big picture.

2:01.6

And I think I'll start out pop by just kind of asking you your feelings, your

2:07.1

thoughts on the last week or two.

2:10.1

That's a, that is the starting point, isn't it?

2:13.8

Trying to figure out exactly how to think about this,

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