“[Silver] stood by our nation and its principles. That’s pretty huge in these days,” Popovich told reporters before the Spurs’ preseason game against the New Orleans Pelicans. “Sometimes, it’s kind of Orwellian. You think we’re living in a place where, ‘Is this really happening?’ But that comparison was pretty stark when you put our president up against those leaders when he’s with them or talking to him and how reacts compared to the way Adam Silver reacted. I was proud of him. It was great.”
“All I did was make a comparison between Adam Silver’s show of principle and courage in a tough situation, as opposed to how our president reacts when in the company of authoritarian figures, whether it’s Saudi Arabia, North Korea, Russia or Turkey, whatever it is,” Popovich said. “It comes off as really feckless, impotent, cowardly by comparison.”
Gregg Popovich, on what it was like to hear his name come out of the President’s mouth last week: pic.twitter.com/3t601mFRVt
— Jeff McDonald (@JMcDonald_SAEN) October 13, 2019
Pretty tame response to be honest. A good one though. . .
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