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I like this guy.
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He walked away after asking “who?” Maybe the guy doesn’t follow politics and doesn’t care about something called the New Hampshire primary.
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Was he sighing at Sanders or Trump? Or both?
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Pop was an Obama supporter.
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Great couch and funny guy. I’m sure he was dying to say something.
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Both.
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Perhaps you don’t know Pops. Very smart and deep guy. Bachelor degree in Soviet Studies from the Air Force Academy. He knows what is going on.
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He’s called Pops? Must admit I never heard of him but he does diplomacy well.
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Yeah Id like to know. Me thinks he’s a solid GOPer
Well there goes my opinion. Even though I was wrong, I am glad
Priceless. I love a man who knows when to keep his mouth shut. LOL!
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Nope. He also gets credit for hiring the first woman coach for a professional male sports team.
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Among Obama supporters, Boston Celtics coach Doc Rivers and San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich donated $5,000 apiece, as did players Baron Davis, Vince Carter and Grant Hill.
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I’m sure he was NOT. He’s been working on this schtick of saying next to nothing for a long time. Shaking his head as he walks away, he’s done that a lot, and to all sorts of things.
The schtick itself is part Zen, part Bill Belichek head coach of the NFL’s NE franchise, part Jim Boeheim head coach of the NCAA Division 1 men’s basketball franchise nominally under Syracuse University, and part staying sharp thru the aging process by following mental workout regime that aims to engage attentiveness, minimalism, and jettisoning of cliches and banalities. IMO Pop pulls it off way more pleasantly than Belichek does, with humor that’s roughly comparable to Boeheim but in a context that lends itself more to the goofy, as things in college ball are much more serious.
Anyway, no one, not you, not me, not the writer of this piece, no. one. can say even if Pop had a fully-formed intelligible response to that news, leave aside what it might be.
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Pop is truly a man of the world. His interests are legion and varied. His 2014 Champion Spurs included the following roster:
Baynes…Australia
Mills…Australia
Parker…France
Diaw…France
Joseph…Canada
Duncan…U.S.V.I.
Ginobili…Argentina
Splitter…Brasil
Belinelli…Italy
Leonard, Green, Bonner and the U.S. mainland players all of them very much team guys.
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It’s basketball. The late Dean Smith, legendary coach at UNC, was probably closer in political philosophy to Bernie Sanders than any other candidate this cycle. Run thru the millionaires and multimillionaires on most NBA rosters, a clear majority of those with any interest at all in politics will be Democrats. It’s their parents, it’s where they come from, it’s how they were raised.
In other major sports, MLB in particular, it’s different, despite that MLB players, again in particular, are where they are largely due to the bedrock principles of pre-Morning In America labor law plus the efforts of some awfully talented labor organizers, including one of the truly great American labor attorneys, Marvin Miller, who IMO sits rat the pinnacle of historical MLB executives alongside Branch Rickey and Bill Veeck.
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Wonderful! hahahahaha
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Why speculate on whether or not Pop had a fully-formed…response? My man did the right thing when he just shook his head and walked away.Cheers.
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