Gregg Popovich Gets Stingy With The Vino
One thing I love about watching football games is seeing coaches – win or lose – march across a field swamped by players, media and security to shake each other’s hand. During that epic traverse of 160 feet, you know one coach is just trying to hind their smirk.
For the NBA, with both benches on the same side of the floor, the half-court summit is traditionally anticlimactic. That is, unless you’re Gregg Popovich and George Karl.
Before facing the Spurs, Pop has traditionally given a bottle of wine to Karl from his Oregon winery Rock & Hammer. Unfortunately, with San Antonio off to a pedestrian 5-6 start, Karl hasn’t received his vino.
“I haven’t found a bottle of wine yet,” Karl said before the game. “It might be bad year. The economy’s down.”
That, or Popovich is threatened by Denver’s 8-4 record and coveted win in San Antonio last night.
If you were a head coach, would you ever get a gift for your opponent?
Source: Rocky Mountain News
November 20th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
Mamba says:
Pop giving Karl wine,
Isiah and Magic smoochin,
Maybe Shaq and Kobe will exchange im sorry cards and hug it out at center court when they re-unite in 2010
November 20th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
fallinup says:
Pop probably guzzled it before the game to take the sting away from that sorry ass game the Spurs played. That bench friggin sucks ass.
November 20th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
VINNY says:
yea i’d get larry brown a crying towel-like the size of a beach towel for his crying ass and on the nights when his team isnt playing he can loan it to Karl’s fat ass.
lawerence frank some lifts so his 5-1 ass can stop standing on stools in the huddle
and mike dunleavy a felony for that knife he put in Elgin’s back.
November 20th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
MoxWestCoastRep says:
I feel like I need a bottle of Vino after looking at that disgusting man.
Seriously, they should make convicts stare at Pop as punishment, but that might be too cruel even for the most violent criminals.
November 20th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
itsakademiks says:
lol@ post 4 yea son is looking a lil rabid in that picture…
November 20th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
Ian says:
whats wrong with some of u guys today
calling another man good lookin or ugly or best dressed wtf is wrong??
fallinup
the bench doesnt suck is everything they put on the floor not named timmeh and can u blame pop if he came drunk for a game?
November 20th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
Dennis Castro says:
I know Twilight opens up tomorrow, but I thought Dime was a bball magazine.
November 20th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
BEdger says:
Pop has an Oregon winery? I live in Oregon, how did I not know this? Oh yeah, I hate wine
November 20th, 2008 at 5:43 pm
rangerjohn says:
@ #8 pop has a vinyard in oregon, but his wine is not for sale, he donates it to charity, or gives it to friends. he has had SEVERAL “charitably donated” bottles go for more then $1000 at auction. he makes no money off the place at all. its all for fun.
November 20th, 2008 at 7:42 pm
sans says:
Yeah I’d drop a bottle on a friend if he was coaching against me.
Dennis Castro, that ish is hilarious.
BEdger–hope your on my side–GO DUCKS! Oregon has the best Pino grapes in the world right now. Home of dank everything.