[Charania] Gregg Popovich addresses a former team psychologist suing the Spurs and former first-round pick Josh Primo
Gregg Popovich addresses a former team psychologist suing the Spurs and former first-round pick Josh Primo: pic.twitter.com/CcTyWgO2uJ
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) November 4, 2022
by Tomheza
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basically wait and see, up to the lawyers. pop is right. man i cannot even think about him being involved in this. pop wanted to shot tony to the moon of the brent barry situation… if he knew about primo he wouldn’t have talked that well about him in preseason and so. man… let’s see how stuff evolves…
Yawn. Being a model franchise in the past doesn’t mean you can’t mess up. Not a valid answer there. And standing by yesterday’s statement is also an insufficient response because yesterday’s statement was 3 sentences long and was fairly dismissive of what occurred.
The direct question was whether anyone informed him of this incident in June. Simple yes or no question. Lawyers being involved does not prevent him from answering this. Now if he doesn’t want to or was told not to answer this question because it would potentially reflect poorly on the org, that’s another issue.
But if you let that get out in court (after denying any culpability), it’s not going to be a good look.
And this is what gets me. They released Josh Primo. They must have considered his conduct to be egregious enough to do so. So they’re either implying it was egregious but they didn’t know (?) or they realized keeping him on the team was untenable given the mountain of evidence they were given (by Cauthen)
[https://twitter.com/MattRoy_TV/status/1588657381457920001](https://twitter.com/MattRoy_TV/status/1588657381457920001)
Video of Pop answering the question that this statement is transcribed from.
Fair.
What’s with all the tweet replies about this being an essay and too long to read? People never fail to fail. It took me more time to make this post than it did for me to read. And I’m guessing the same is true for every reply that’s complaining.
I have every confidence that Pop knew nothing, there aren’t many people as inherently good as him.
I don’t like this statement. It’s very un-Popovich to be so corporate and meticulously crafted, like he’s trying to avoid saying anything concrete.
Pop is president of basketball operations. There’s no reason that HR or Legal needed to make anyone aware beyond the General Manager, especially irrelevant managers like anyone on the Bball side. This is an employment law matter. The guy in finance doesn’t need know, nor does the procurement, or marketing team.
It might be illegal, risk inducing, or a confidentiality breach for HR to tell other people in the org.
Honestly, were I in the same position as him, I too wouldn’t speak out too much. Ongoing legal actions are something you don’t want to blab too much about lest your words be used to incriminate you even if you’re innocent.
Our Spurs organization’s standard and culture is going to be tested harder than before
Reading between the lines it seems like pop is distancing himself from the whole affair. Seems significant to me.
As much as I’d like to hear his side of the story, I get that he needs to listen to the lawyers.
I think Busbee going out of his way to seem to NOT implicate Pop, and volunteering that information about pop possibly being lied to is the best defense of Pop we have so far, oddly enough.
Seeing as though the team has pretty much had no real issues or controversies since I’ve been a fan, when the Admiral was drafted, I think at least Pop has earned the right to not be vilified until we have more information and legal proceedings begin to play out.
I imagine Pop will get deposed over this and we’ll hear his side.
We just gotta wait. It seems like the psychologist and Busbee are more interested in getting some kind of justice than a quick payday which would help the facts get out.
Even taking his morality out of the equation, Pop is a straight up genius who seems to always see the big picture. I imagine he would know he couldn’t keep something like this under wraps and cover it up when there were multiple victims in and out of the organization. I can’t see him being stupid enough to try to cover such a huge scandal up to protect a dumbass 19yo kid who is unproven.
This doesn’t make me feel any better tbh. I agree that we need to just let this play out but he immediately contradicts that by not only backing yesterday’s statement but also invoking the unblemished reputation of the organization. The integrity of the organization is what’s in question here. What bearing could the past 25 years have on what went on between Primo and Cauthen? It’s entirely irrelevant and is the exact opposite of letting lawyers handle things. The Spurs have been much too eager to control the narrative for them to be clear of any wrongdoing.
It’s not like I ever expected him to come out saying explicitly he knew nothing about it. I mean, legally, it’s not even possible. But if he did know nothing about it, this doesn’t do much to enforce that truth and feels quite the opposite to me.
Only thing I gotta say is I’m praying Pop didn’t know. If he knew and acted maliciously or tried to cover it up, I think that’d break me. I’d stop watching the Spurs and probably stop watching basketball.
He’s trying to save the franchise with his martyrdom. He knows everyone will take him at his word. I guess we’ll see what happens.
If there has been a franchise that has done things the right way, it’s ours. They have earned some trust until this process plays out.
there’s no way some of y’all are vilifying pop of all people without even knowing what the facts/truth to ANY of this is
It’s very clear that he’s trying to say that he has nothing to do with the situation will still trying to not say anything incriminating towards anyone else
Who is Josh Primo?