Gregg Popovich Decides not to Coach, Too Focus on Death of his Wife.

With his team down 2–0 in the Western 1st Round Series to the Golden State Warriors, Gregg Popovich stays home to worry about his wife's death. Erin who died on Wednesday, kept Popovich from coaching on Thursday.

Erin Popovich died early Wednesday, battling an illness for such a long time at the age of 67. People felt that Erin left an influence on everybody around the organization’s lives. The Popovich’s been married for about four decades with two children named Jill and Mickey Popovich. With Gregg Popovich missing game 3, Assistant coach Ettore Messina had to make up for the missing Popovich which leading the Spurs to a loss 110–97 to the Golden State Warriors putting the Spurs in a danger zone now losing the series 3–0.

Gregg Popovich never told anybody about what his wife carried. He never told about of the long illness that kept her from sharing firsthand. Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili might have understood what the Popovich’s carried, but they had a better understanding than most.

Veteran Manu Ginobili knew his team wasn’t really focused on the game losing such a great person in a bad time but tried to keep together “The Spurs will do our best to focus on basketball,even though their minds are elsewhere…I guess you show your support and then respect trying to go out there and compete even harder than you ever did.. we’ll try to honor it.”

With losing Erin Popovich, it didn’t only just affect people around Gregg Popovich it affected everybody in the NBA. Players like Lebron James, Dwayne Wade, Isaiah Thomas, Steph Curry, Jeremy Lin,etc.