On Friday night while beating the Utah Jazz 104-97 in overtime, the duo both reached impressive milestones: Duncan moved past center Shaquille O’Neal for 13th on the all-time list for total rebounds with 13,113 overall, while Popovich became the 12th coach in NBA history to win 900 games and joined Jerry Sloan as the only coach ever to win that many with one team.
Here’s how O’Neal responded to their accomplishments:
Quite the classy reaction from one of the best centers of all-time. With all the battles Shaq has gone through against the Spurs in his days as a dominant force with the Los Angeles Lakers, there is probably no team he has more respect for than the one that still remains the best in the West.
After all these years, though, you’d think he’d have figured out how to spell Popovich’s name correctly.
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