Gregg Popovich’s Wife Wants Him to Be Nicer to the Media

San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich is infamous for his treatment of reporters and their pesky, often inane questions. Fans may love the shtick and find it hilarious, but Pop’s wife isn’t entirely thrilled with his boorish behavior. From 790 the Ticket (via SRI): “Why he makes things so tough on courtside reporters: ‘I know. I’m a jerk. I’m going to go ahead and admit it publically to the whole world. Tell me what to do. What should I do? The quarter ends, you just got outscored by 12 points, they had eight offensive rebounds so the question will be ‘you just got outrebounded by X amount so what are you going to do about it?’ I don’t know. Am I going to make a trade during the timeout? I don’t know. I’m going to do drills here for a while by the time the game starts, I don’t know. I’m not going to do anything. I’m just going to go back to the bench and hope we play better. I don’t know how to answer so sue me for being stupid and not having the answers to the questions. (Host: Keep doing it, it’s entertaining.) It entertains everybody but my wife. When I get home and she says ‘geez why are you so mean? You’re a jerk, people hate you.’ I go I’m sorry honey, I have to do better next time.’ On being criticized by his wife when he gets home: ‘And there’s no exaggeration. Did you see that guy honey? Did you see him? All you have to do is see him and you know why I answered the way I did. (She says) ‘That’s no excuse, you’re a grown man. Show some maturity.’ I said ‘I can’t, I can’t do it.'”