NBA Adjusts Gregg Popovich's Career Record, Crediting Mitch Johnson with 77 Spurs Games From '24-25
- Gregg Popovich stepped down as San Antonio Spurs head coach after the 2024-25 NBA season, ending a 29-year tenure.
- His retirement followed a stroke he suffered on November 2 at the Spurs’ arena, which forced him to miss the rest of the season.
- Assistant coach Mitch Johnson took over as acting coach, leading the team in 77 games with a 32-45 record, before being named full-time head coach.
- The NBA removed the 77 games Popovich missed last season from his coaching record and credited those wins and losses to Johnson, raising Popovich’s record to 1,390-824 and his winning percentage from.621 to.628.
- Popovich remains the NBA’s all-time leader in coaching victories and continues with the Spurs as team president, maintaining involvement with the franchise.
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Legendary NBA coach Gregg Popovich's career win total has shrunken. The longtime Spurs head coach has had 77 games removed from his record, including 32 wins, because he did not coach those contests after suffering a stroke on Nov. 2 that held him from coaching for the rest of last season.

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NBA adjusts Gregg Popovich’s career record, crediting Mitch Johnson with 77 Spurs games from ’24-25
The NBA has adjusted all-time wins leader Gregg Popovich’s career record with the San Antonio Spurs, removing the 77 games that he missed last season and crediting those wins and losses to new Spurs coach Mitch Johnson.

NBA adjusts Gregg Popovich's career record, crediting Mitch Johnson with 77 Spurs games from '24-25
The NBA has adjusted all-time wins leader Gregg Popovich’s career record with the San Antonio Spurs, removing the 77 games that he missed last season and crediting those wins and losses to new Spurs coach Mitch Johnson.
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