NBA Coach Gregg Popovich Sports Priceless In-Game Reaction to New Hampshire Results (Video)
San Antonio Spurs manager probably won’t be donating to Donald Trump’s campaign any time soon
Tony Maglio | February 10, 2016 @ 5:51 AM
Last Updated: February 10, 2016 @ 12:04 PM
San Antonio Spurs Coach Gregg Popovich is a terrific basketball mind and a surly fella. Hearing the results out of New Hampshire didn’t quite help that second trait on Tuesday night.
During the requisite post-first quarter on-court interview, Pop was his usual self — a miserable man of few words just going through the motions because he contractually must. On his impressions of the roundball game thus far, the five-time NBA champion simply told TNT’s David Aldridge, “We’re behind and they’re ahead … they scored more than we did.”
The enterprising reporter then gave Popovich the New Hampshire primary election results, to which the coach could only shake his head over and walk away, more moody than when the interview began. The short clip is really worth watching, trust us.
It’s not entirely clear which winner Pop was particularly dismayed over, though it appeared that Donald Trump’s name made him sulk, not the mention of Bernie Sanders.
That would make sense, as the three-time National Basketball Association Coach of the Year has donated money to Democrats in the past, including President Barack Obama.
Watch the video above.
9 Media Outlets Fed Up With Donald Trump for Proposed Muslim Ban (Photos)
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New York Daily News' Dec. 9 cover featured a cartoon Trump beheading the Statue of Liberty.
The cover's caption read, “When Trump came for the Mexicans, I did not speak out as I was not a Mexican. When Trump came for the Muslims, I did not speak out as I was not a Muslim. Then he came for me …”
Following Trump's declaration to ban Muslim immigrants from entering the United States, CNN's Chris Cuomo got heated during an interview and called the plan "stupid."
CNN
The Detroit Free Press denounced Trump's plan on Dec. 9, with a front-page editorial blasting the GOP candidate's "vile bigotry."
Detroit Free Press
After Trump repeatedly interrupted the hosts of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Joe Scarborough cut the interview short and demanded the show go to commercial.
The New York Times ran an analysis of all of Trump's speeches, interviews and press conferences, calling his speech patterns "ominous."
New York Times
Several news outlets have blasted Trump's anti-Muslim immigration plan as bigoted, but the Philadelphia Daily News went as far as to compare him to Hitler on the front page.
Philadelphia Daily News
NBC News' foreign correspondent Richard Engel warned on Twitter and on air that Trump's anti-Muslim statements could have troublesome effect on U.S. relations abroad.
Twitter
The Huffington Post took a swipe at Trump's plan for a "full shutdown" of Muslim immigration, declaring the plan "fascist."
The Huffington Post
The New Yorker took aim not at Trump, but the media, calling on TV news outlets to hold Trump more accountable for his statements.
The New Yorker
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Following the GOP candidate’s call for a “complete shutdown” of Muslim immigration, the media has begun to push back — click through to see how