Spurs hire Ettore Messina as assistant coach

[GunRanger]

CSKA Moscow head coach Ettore Messina will join Gregg Popovich's staff with the San Antonio Spurs after this season ends, as first reported by Corriere di Bologna's Daniele Labanti and confirmed by Sportando.

Messina served as an assistant coach with the Los Angeles Lakers under Mike Brown in 2011-2012. The Atlanta Hawks reportedly considered him for their head-coaching vacancy last year before settling on Mike Budenholzer, who was Popovich's lead assistant at the time. The Spurs tried to hire Messina last year, according to ESPN's Marc Stein, who also reported that there was talk that new Utah Jazz head coach Quin Snyder would try to add Messina to his staff.

Having coached Real Madrid, Benetton Treviso, Virtus Bologna and Italy's national team, Messina has quite a resume. He's long been talked about as a potentially historic hire as an NBA head coach, and that could still happen in the future. He has a great reputation for his offensive mind -- in that respect, this will be a case of the rich getting richer in San Antonio

http://www.cbssports.com/nba/eye-on...urs-to-hire-ettore-messina-as-assistant-coach



Might be looking at Pop's replacement

 

[360dagod]

http://www.cbssports.com/nba/eye-on...urs-to-hire-ettore-messina-as-assistant-coach



Might be looking at Pop's replacement

 

[Detroit Wave]

 

[Goatpoacher]

Title Lock?

 

[Malta]

Yeah, definitely grooming him to take over.

 

[FAH1223]

10 years younger than Pop

Now watch them get the #1 pick in 2016 or 2017 and take a franchise big man.

 

[ZackMorris]

The end must be near

 

[Steezy]

may god have mercy on us all

 

[CantStop]

He was a Lakers assistant coach and that foreign loser didn't do anything for us

 

[duckbutta]

must mean those foreign cats the spurs got stashed away will be in the league within the next two years...

Leviathan gonna fukk around and be the only american born player on this team in the next 5 years

Well Andre Drummond to when we offer him the max after next season...

 

[360dagod]

must mean those foreign cats the spurs got stashed away will be in the league within the next two years...

Leviathan gonna fukk around and be the only american born player on this team in the next 5 years

Well Andre Drummond to when we offer him the max after next season...

fam...we got nikkas stashed from like 2001

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...nio-spurs-draft-pick-since-tim-duncan/page/17

@us giving away Dragic

 

[GunRanger]

He was a Lakers assistant coach and that foreign loser didn't do anything for us

Mike Brown cannot be helped.

 

[Da King]

Those foreign draft picks finna be :3wow:

 

[SubZeroDegrees]

I hope when Pops leaves, he goes straight to TNT.

 

[hood b. goode]

he coached a game recently with pop in the hospital

got the W.
I guess he was coaching Manu at the beginning of the 2000's, they have history together.