LOOK: Warriors GM keeps perfect Gregg Popovich quote on his phone
The San Antonio Spurs are the NBA's model franchise. Every other organization should copy their every move, and the smart ones do.
Count the defending-champion Golden State Warriors in that category. According to USA Today's Sam Amick, their general manager, Bob Myers, has a quote from Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich in his phone; they're literally following San Antonio's lead:
There's no shame in mimicking the best. The way San Antonio does things is smart on almost every level, and taking a page (or quote) out of their book should be applauded 10 times out of 10.
“A synergy has to form between the owner, whoever his president is, whoever the GM is, whoever the coach is,” Popovich said in that quote from March of 2014 that Myers kept as a blueprint of sorts. “There’s got to be a synergy where there’s a trust. There (are) no walls. There is no territory. Everything is discussed. Everything is fair game. Criticism is welcome, and when you have that, then you have a hell of an organization. That free flow through all those people is what really makes it work. And that includes everything from draft to Os and Xs. Nothing should be left to one area – only to the president, only to the GM, only to the coach – or the culture just doesn’t form. At least that’s what’s worked for us.”