{"id":55,"date":"2006-02-24T13:19:10","date_gmt":"2006-02-24T13:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/fyi\/2006\/02\/24\/popovich-nearly-a-little-giant\/"},"modified":"2006-02-24T13:19:10","modified_gmt":"2006-02-24T13:19:10","slug":"popovich-nearly-a-little-giant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/2006\/02\/24\/popovich-nearly-a-little-giant\/","title":{"rendered":"Popovich Nearly a Little Giant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-top: 0\"><i>Howard W. Hewitt<\/i> &#8211; Gregg Popovich, coach of the 3-time NBA champion San Antonio, nearly became a Little Giant in 1966. Popovich graduated from Merrillville High School but was not heavily recruited. He ended up playing basketball at the Air Force Academy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/www2images\/popovich.jpg\" \/>He was featured in the Feb. 24 edition of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indystar.com\">Indianapolis Star<\/a>&#8216;s <i>Five Questions<\/i> feature.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0\">The first question was if he was recruited by any Indiana colleges:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0\">&quot;The only college I visited was Wabash. I actually pledged a fraternity on my visit there. I loved it down there. Nobody had recruited me; I was just going to go there and major in pre-med and try to play basketball.&quot;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0\">He went on to explain the Academy had recruited friends of his to play football and then he looked into the Air Force.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0\">He had a so-so career as a player but got his first head coaching job at Division III Pomona-Pitzer in 1979.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0\">His Spurs have won three world championships since Popovich became coach in 1995.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howard W. Hewitt &#8211; Gregg Popovich, coach of the 3-time NBA champion San Antonio, nearly became a Little Giant in 1966. Popovich graduated from Merrillville High School but was not heavily recruited. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}