- led the Spurs to three NBA Championships since he took over in 1995 as the team’s head coach (1999, 2003 and 2005)
- one of two active coaches with multiple NBA Championships (Phil Jackson has nine)
- named 2003 NBA Coach of the Year
- three times has led San Antonio to the NBA’s best regular season record (1998-99, 2000-01 and 2002-03)
- enters the 2005-06 season with a career mark of 455-233
- 1970 graduate of the United States Air Force Academy with a degree in Soviet Studies
- played four seasons at the Air Force Academy - as a senior was the team’s captain and leading scorer
- after graduation in 1970 served his five-year military commitment
- in 1972 was the captain of the Armed Forces team, which won the A.A.U. Championship
- in 1973 returned to the Air Force Academy as an assistant coach
- spent six years at Air Force during which time he obtained his master’s degree in Physical Education and Sports Sciences from the University of Denver
- in 1979, Gregg Popovich was named the head coach at Pomona-Pitzer in Claremont, California. Spent the next eight seasons at Pomona … during the 1985-86 season led team to its first conference championship in 68 years and to berth in the NCAA Division III Tournament
- started NBA coaching career in July of 1988, joining the Spurs as an assistant coach as a member of Larry Brown’s staff
- Gregg Popovich spent the next four seasons in San Antonio for a Spurs team that won pair of Midwest Division titles
- in the summer of 1992 was named an assistant coach on Don Nelson’s staff with Golden State
- spent the next two seasons with the Warriors
- named Spurs executive vice president of basketball operations/general manager on May 31, 1994
- served as GM for eight full seasons before turning the job over to R.C. Buford on July 1, 2002
