His most recent title may have been the sweetest as the Spurs avenged a painful defeat in the 2013 final with a victory over LeBron James and the Miami Heat. He guided San Antonio to the playoffs in 22 straight seasons and was named NBA Coach of the Year three times. Popovich took the reins of the Spurs in 1996 and turned them into a winning machine, capturing titles in 1999, 2003, 2005, 20. "Having a sense of humor is hugely important to me because I think people who don't have self-deprecation, who don't appreciate funny moments, won't be able to give their all for a group," he said in 2015. He leavens sometimes searing critiques - of anyone from players, game officials, league executives and political figures and not forgetting himself - with humor.īut his low-key delivery can sometimes make it hard to get the joke.
"What I could do in my retirement, what kind of wine I could drink, all these things become bland when I think about the number of victories I have." "This is the most important thing in my life - my grandkids can go for a hike," he deadpanned when asked about it by a reporter. How much store he sets by it, well, that's another matter. That Popovich - who was already the first coach to reach 1,500 NBA wins including both the regular season and playoffs - would reach the milestone has been clear for years. This is the most earnest laugh in television history."Coach Pop" made NBA history on Friday with his 1,336th regular-season victory, surpassing the legendary Don Nelson when the Spurs edged visiting Utah 104-102.
Shaq can barely formulate words, which always makes Charles’ antics funnier, because he thrives on trying to make Shaq laugh, while Kenny tries his very best at all times to keep things on track and explain why those two are rolling in laughter. Shaq and Chuck start losing it when Ros brings word there was a “police presence,” but Ernie pushes them over the edge by noting that there are social media reports “LAPD was called.” You can tell something is up when Ros Gold-Onwude reports that a player said the whole thing was “very much a rallying around Chris Paul” and someone on set struggles to hide how funny that sentence is.
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I’m not sure I’ve laughed harder at any segment on TV than this, in part because it just builds and builds. The gold standard and one of the greatest nights in NBA Twitter’s history. There is no shortage of hilarious moments from the last decade of Inside the NBA, but here we picked our 10 favorites (in no particular order) that have made us laugh the hardest as we get set for the 2022-23 season. In honor of the gang getting back together and, happily, being together for the long haul so long as TNT retains their NBA rights, we decided to take a trip down memory road for the funniest moments the show has given us in the last 10 years.
On Monday, we learned that Warner Media had re-signed all four members of the show to long-term deals, including a massive 10-year deal for Barkley that could be worth almost $200 million. It’s so natural compared to other shows that are clearly trying to hit their beats, and their comfort with each other is never more apparent than when they go off the rails and start making jokes, typically at each other’s expense.
The combination of insight and fun is difficult to replicate, as is the freedom they’re given to go long with a conversation or just get really weird by TNT compared to other networks. It has become the studio show all others try to emulate, but the magic of Inside is there’s not really a formula to follow. On Tuesday night, the Inside the NBA crew will make their return for the show’s 34th season on TNT, and the 12th with the current crew of Ernie Johnson, Kenny Smith, Shaquille O’Neal, and Charles Barkley all together.
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