Spurs coach Gregg Popovich used 10 minutes of his 26-minute pre-game news conference to call for politicians to make tougher gun laws to prevent school shootings.
San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich signals to his players during the first half of an NBA basketball game against the Portland Trail Blazers in Austin, Texas, Thursday, April 6, 2023.DALLAS – Spurs coach Gregg Popovich forcefully slammed “cowardly, selfish legislators” for failing to enact stricter gun laws in the wake of school massacres he said have contributed to making the United States the “laughingstock” of the world.
“When I pick up my 6- and 11-year-old grandkids at school, when I'm here at home, on the way, it goes through my mind that I hope they're going to be OK,” he said. “And most of you in this room, when we were in school, we worried if Nancy would dance with us on Friday after the football game or something. That was our anxiety.”
“What would it take?” Popovich said. “I mean, we've got two young black guys in Tennessee who just got railroaded by a bunch of people that I would bet down deep in their soul want to go back to Jim Crow. And what they just did is a good start. It's beyond comprehension. And what were they guilty of? They actually protested?”
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