Legendary San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich is “attacking his rehab with the same resilience” after suffering a stroke in November that he’d shown on the bench, Buford said, but his return to the team this season remains in question.

San Antonio Spurs' head coach, Gregg Popovich, is unlikely to make a comeback this season as he recuperates from a stroke sustained earlier in the campaign. The revelation that Popovich will be absent for the remainder of the 2024-25 NBA season follows closely on the heels of the news that French sensation Victor Wembanyama has been sidelined for the rest of the season due to a blood clot in his right shoulder.