By Jeph Duarte | Pounding The Rock (PtR), 2026-01-28 12:00:00
最近有人在奥斯汀看到了波波维奇的身影。如今，这位NBA历史胜场最多的教练已不常在公众场合露面。而这一次现身在社交媒体上引发了热议。
波波教练在奥斯汀马刺队G联赛的比赛中获得了全场起立致敬
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上周日，马刺队主场迎战新奥尔良鹈鹕队。鹈鹕队代理主教练詹姆斯·博雷戈 (James Borrego) 是波波维奇的前助教之一，当他谈起自己在圣安东尼奥的时光时，显得格外激动。
“很少有人能像他那样深刻地影响我的人生……我每天都挂念着他。几分钟前我们刚发过短信……他触动了无数人的生命。我就是其中之一。我很幸运，他能成为我生命中的一部分。”
博雷戈和鹈鹕队实际上使用了马刺队的旧训练设施来备战他们在圣安东尼奥的比赛。这个地方让这位前助教思绪万千。
“那感觉太酷了。昨天我们得以在我们的旧训练馆里训练。太奇妙了，对我来说就像时光倒流一样。我走进去时，感觉自己仿佛还是那个二十三岁的年轻人。那里的气味把我带回了那些日子。如果那些墙壁会说话……那该有多少故事啊。太不可思议了。我坐在旧的录像室里，在旧的更衣室里，回忆起这段征程、这段岁月是多么特别。但一切都是从这里开始的。能带领自己的球队回到那座训练馆，感觉非常不真实。这是我梦开始的地方，是我学习的地方，也是我成长的地方。而波波维奇是这一切的核心人物，昨天我多次想起了他。我跟我的团队分享了这些感受，也为自己留存了这份心情。所以，这次回来是一次特别的探访。我完全没有预料到。我甚至不知道我们会在那里训练。结果我们就在那儿了，事情的发展超出了我的预期。美好的回忆如潮水般涌上心头。那感觉真的太棒了。”
博雷戈的职业生涯始于2003年夏天，当时他是一名助理视频协调员。当被问及他是否去看了录像室时，他回答道，
“我去了！那气味确实把我带回了过去。我仿佛能听到波波维奇，你知道吗，在大喊我的名字。‘雷，’你知道吧。他叫我‘雷’……雷·罗马诺 (Ray Romano) 那样的‘雷’。‘雷，过来！……雷，你人呢？……把录像带拿来，雷。’那时候，用的还是VHS录像带。我第一年的时候，他还在用VHS。我当时想劝波波维奇改用DVD，后来我们又想转向数字格式。所以我帮他从VHS过渡到DVD——过程并不顺利——然后很快就转向了数字格式。我亲身经历了这一切。我们走进录像室，我坐在我以前常坐的位置上……我仿佛能听到波波维奇的声音在那个地方回响。”
今天，格雷格·波波维奇 (Gregg Popovich) 迎来了他七十七岁的生日。作为马刺队的主教练，他的人生堪称传奇。如今，他作为球队的“El Jefe”（西班牙语，意为“老板”或“领袖”），开启了人生的新篇章。他仍然参与其中，并以这样或那样的方式，将其影响力延伸至联盟的每一支球队，继续影响着比赛、球员以及联盟的传承。
由生成式人工智能翻译，译文内容可能不准确或不完整，以原文为准。
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Open Thread: Happy birthday to Gregg Popovich
There was a recent Pop sighting in Austin. These days the winningest coach in NBA history does not often make public appearances. This one blew up on social media.
Coach Pop got an ovation at the Austin Spurs G-League game
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Last Sunday, the Spurs hosted the New Orleans. Pelicans interim head coach James Borrego, one of Pop’s former assistants, lit up talking about his time in San Antonio.
“There are very few people who have impacted my life the way he has…my thoughts are always with him, everyday. We just texted with each other a few minutes ago…he’s touched so many lives. I’m one of them. I’m fortunate that he’s been a part of my life.”
Borrego and the Pelicans actually used the former Spurs facility to prepare for their game in San Antonio. The space took the former assistant back.
“It was really cool. yesterday we got to practice at our old practice facility. It was amazing. It was like going back in time for me. I walked in there like I was a twenty-three-year-old. The smell of it took me back to those days. If those walls could talk. It’s amazing. But I sat there in the old theater room, the old locker room reminisced about how special this has been, this run has been. But it all started here. Surreal to take your team back to that facility. This is where I came from. This is where I learned. This is where I grew up. And Pop being a major factor there, and I thought about him multiple times yesterday. Sharing it with my team but also for myself. So it’s been a special visit coming back. I didn’t expect that. I didn’t even know we were practicing there. And we end up there and it turned into something that I didn’t expect. Wonderful memories and I was flooded with those yesterday. It was pretty cool.”
Borrego got his start as an assistant video coordinator in the summer of 2003. When asked if he visited the video room, he responded,
“I did! The smell did bring me back. I could hear Pop, ya know, yelling my name. ‘Ray,’ ya know. He called me Ray…Ray Romano. ‘Ray, get over here….Ray, where you at?…get the film, Ray.’ And at that time, it was with VHS tapes. My first year, he was bringing VHS. I tried to get Pop to DVD at that time. And then we tried to get to digital. So I helped Pop transition form VHS to DVD — that didn’t go well — went to digital quickly. And I was there for all of it. We walked into the theater and I sat where I used to sit…I could hear Pop’s voice echoing through that place.”
Today, Gregg Popovich turns seventy-seven years old. Quite a life he led as the head coach of the Spurs. Alas, he is now in his next chapter as El Jefe. Still involved and still impacting the game, the players, and the legacy of the league as his reach touches every single team in one way or another.
By Jeph Duarte, via Pounding The Rock