Gregg Popovich on the election: "I'm just sick to my stomach."

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Earlier today Coach Pop talked to reporters and gave his thoughts on the election.

Right now I'm just trying to formulate thoughts. It's too early. I'm just sick to my stomach. Not basically because the Republicans won or anything, but the disgusting tenure and tone and all of the comments that have been xenophobic, homophobic, racist, misogynistic.

I live in that country where half of the people ignored all of that to elect someone. That's the scariest part of the whole thing to me. It's got nothing to do with the environment and Obamacare, and all of the other stuff. We live in a country that ignored all of those values that we would hold our kids accountable for. They'd be grounded for years if they acted and said the things that have been said in that campaign by Donald Trump.

I look at the Evangelicals and I wonder, those values don't mean anything to them? All of those values to me are more important than anybody's skill in business or anything else because it tells who we are, and how we want to live, and what kind of people we are. That's why I have great respect for people like Lindsey Graham and John McCain, John Kasich, who I disagree with on a lot of political things, but they had enough fiber and respect for humanity and tolerance for all groups to say what they said about the man.

That's what worries me. I get it, of course we want to be successful, we're all going to say that. Everybody wants to be successful, it's our country, we don't want it to go down the drain. But any reasonable person would come to that conclusion, but it does not take away the fact that he used that fear mongering, and all of the comments, from day one, the race bating with trying to make Barack Obama, our first black president, illegitimate. It leaves me wondering where I've been living, and with whom I'm living.

The fact that people can just gloss that over, start talking about the transition team, and we're all going to be kumbaya now and try to make the country good without talking about any of those things. And now we see that he's already backing off of immigration and Obamacare and other things, so was it a big fake, which makes you feel it's even more disgusting and cynical that somebody would use that to get the base that fired up. To get elected. And what gets lost in the process are African Americans, and Hispanics, and women, and the gay population, not to mention the eighth grade developmental stage exhibited by him when he made fun of the handicapped person. I mean, come on. That's what a seventh grade, eighth grade bully does. And he was elected president of the United States. We would have scolded our kids. We would have had discussions until we were blue in the face trying to get them to understand these things. He is in charge of our country. That's disgusting.
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More at the link.

Pop continues to be the GOAT.
 
I'm glad we're finally starting to realize evangelicals in America are disgusting hypocrites who deserve no sympathy and no respect. They are all talk and this election proves it.

Please, spare me the "Insulting people doesn't get us anywhere" bullshit. You've either been living under a rock or you're not from America and don't know what you're talking about.
 
bless this beautiful man
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Much respect to Pop and Stan Van Gundy. I feel like its not their responsibility to even comment on these kinds of things but im glad they did.
 
Speaking Truth to Power.

We need nore of this. What happened was pure fucking evil, and eventually someone much smarter than Trump is going to use the same damn tactics and the outcome will be even worse.
 
Pop over the last few years has shown us that he is a better human being than he is a coach and
he is one of the greatest coaches ever, in any sport.
 
PlayALLtheGames said:
I'm glad we're finally starting to realize evangelicals in America are disgusting hypocrites who deserve no sympathy and no respect. They are all talk and this election proves it.
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So true. I like many liberals have consistently felt that they bent the rules they claim to play by when it worked for their self-gain. But I also have met some who are sincere delightful people who live what they preach.

This election has laid bare the fact that a lot of those people just see the bible as a weapon. These people are some of the most unchristian souls in this country. It's worth remembering in the future what they have nakedly admitted.

To them Jesus is a slogan, not an example to guide their lives.

No longer do we have to guess and extrapolate when an example like Ted Haggard comes into focus. Hypocrites like him aren't the over exaggerated exception. They are shockingly the vast majority of a fiendish movement.
 
I'm not that big of a fan of the Spurs but I have nothing but respect for Coach Popovich. a true man with integrity.

KINGofCRA5H said:
Yep. Van Gundy's comments the other day were equally as impactful.
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can you provide a link of that please? I would love to read it.

tycoonheart said:
This is how you respond, Mark Zuckerberg, you could learn a thing or two from Pop.
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I think Zucker is just a a great example of the mentality a lot of the absent voters (46%) displayed this election. the whole "I voted for Bernie, I hate Hillary, so I'm not going to vote now at all. it's not my responsibility."
 
I know that feeling.

At least with Romney, McCain, et al., you had decent people but I disagreed with on policy.

With Trump you are just embarrassed to be an American as the President also represents us.
 
Robot Carnival said:
I'm not that big of a fan of the Spurs but I have nothing but respect for Coach Popovich. a true man with integrity.



can you provide a link of that please? I would love to read it.



I think Zucker is just a a great example of the mentality a lot of the absent voters (46%) displayed this election. the whole "I voted for Bernie, I hate Hillary, so I'm not going to vote now at all. it's not my responsibility."
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http://www.freep.com/story/sports/nba/pistons/2016/11/09/detroit-pistons-stan-van-gundy/93551178/
 
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