San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich recently shared his thoughts on the term “woke” and its implications. The far-left X’s and O’s man for the Spurs furthered false arguments on “book banning culture” and suggested the narrative surrounding what is considered woke needs to be reversed. “Woke ain’t bad,” he claimed.
Gregg Popovich: Woke (Which Is Bad) Ain’t Bad
Popovich, or ‘Coach Pop’ as he is known to his players, made the ill-informed comments during a press availability prior to his team’s game against the Atlanta Hawks earlier this week.
He described a measure of joy in the field of coaching as he says league-wide, many of his colleagues have begun teaching history lessons to players.
“I mean, even Black friends that I know would say, ‘I didn’t know such and such until I was 32 years old.’ Well, it didn’t get taught to any of us – Black or White – for a very long time,” he explained.
“So, it’s not a surprise, but now that we have this book-banning culture rising up, it has to be fought because if we don’t fight it, if we don’t inform, if we don’t teach off-the-court basketball stuff, it doesn’t mean much,” Popovich continued. “But off the court, it’s important because there’s a void there, and it’s an intentional void at this point.”
Of course, the ‘intentional void’ he speaks of is all Gregg Popovich. A once-legendary coach reduced to being one of the worst in the league while spending more time yelling at people to get off his lawn than actually coaching. And speaking about things that are definitively fake news to boot.
Popovich’s reference to “book-banning culture” is more than likely a reference to a media-driven narrative about books being banned in Florida. Such claims have been debunked time and time again.
But hey, why let a little thing like reality get in the way when you can be a liberal woke warrior? And that’s what Pop is, a little liberal woke warrior.
Speaking of which, the Spurs coach said he’d like to change the narrative surrounding the term woke. An ideology that is clearly racist.
“So, we can’t let it become normal. When it becomes normal then we got real problems. And I think that’s the goal in a lot of ways, to change the status quo of so-called ‘woke,'” he told reporters. “Woke ain’t bad.”
“Woke means you’re alive. It means you’re paying attention. Now, some people can overdo it in a certain degree in a certain way. But in general, woke should be a positive term.”
Gregg Popovich has been unrelenting when it comes to commenting on political affairs, especially those involving former President Trump and his supporters.
He has at various points called the United States “an embarrassment to the world” and said Donald Trump’s supporters ignored his “xenophobic, homophobic, racist, misogynistic” views “to elect someone.”
Coach Gregg Popovich and his ‘wokeness’ have led the Spurs to an embarrassing 7-33 record this season. The team and coach haven’t been relevant since 2016, when Trump was elected, where they lost to the Golden State Warriors in the Western Conference Finals.
Since that time they have gone 223-288 for a paltry .436 winning percentage. Their winning percentage at this point in the 2023-2024 season is .175.
They are 3-16 at home and lost the game to the Hawks after the “woke ain’t bad” comments.
Woke might not be bad in his view, but Pop’s coaching skills surely are.
