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Gregg Popovich on potential of NBA games in July: "Count me out"

Published Mar. 6, 2015 12:12 p.m. ET

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San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich regularly wages war against the NBA schedule.

He hates back-to-backs and four-in-five night stretches like a dog hates taking a bath, outwardly protesting the regimen in year's past by sitting his stars during high-profile nationally televised games. So wouldn't it make sense for Popovich to get behind any plan that will make the schedule less burdensome?

Well, according to the San Antonio-Express-News' Dan McCarney, if it means the NBA season gets dragged into July, Popovich has a major problem with that, too.

Popovich makes sense. There is more to life than basketball, and the possibility of an NBA Finals game being played after the 4th of July would just be weird. Hopefully, another proposal is put before Adam Silver that everyone can agree on. Even Popovich.

(h/t: San Antonio Express-News)

“I think the season is long enough,” Popovich said. “I will not come to work in July. If there’s a game in July, count me out.” Even a championship game? “Count me out. Count me out. Life is too short.” Popovich was joking — we think — but his point remains: The NBA season already stretches over nine full months, from the start of training camp in October until finishing up with the Finals in June.