Gregg Popovich and Chateau d’Yquem, the Ultimate Pairing

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🗓️ 10 August 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich has an unparalleled resume: head coach and GM of the Spurs for over 25 years, the all-time winningest coach in NBA history, and five championship rings to show for it. And after this weekend, Pop will finally be able to add “Hall of Famer” to that list of accomplishments. What will he do after his induction ceremony? Probably celebrate with his favorite wine: Château d’Yquem, which has its own extensive and sustained history of excellence. So today, ESPN’s Baxter Holmes tells you about the symbiotic relationship between one of the greatest basketball coaches of all time, and the drink that can possibly be his equal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.9	Backster Holmes, you've been researching for a long time, a story about Spurscoach
0:05.8	Greg Popovich who's going to be enshrined into the basketball hall of fame this weekend.
0:10.5	Tell us how this story came about. Yeah, so back in 2017, I was working on a story for ESPN
0:18.7	the magazine about the booming wine culture amongst NBA players, guys like LeBron James and Duane
0:25.4	Wade, Kermelo Anthony, Chris Paul, so on. And while I was working on this story, it seemed like
0:30.1	everybody in the food and wine world who I talked to and asked about players, they would always
0:34.5	lead with some story about Greg Popovich and his obsession with food and wine and fine dining
0:41.5	and these elaborate teen dinners and how important they were to forging a culture and teen chemistry
0:48.6	and bonds and all of this. And I thought, oh, that's interesting. That's not necessarily
0:52.5	the story I'm working on. I'll keep this material for another day and so I worked on the
0:57.0	first story and then I came back to later the story on pub. And while I was working on that,
1:04.4	people started mentioning to me like, yeah, he's really into this famous old sweet wine out of
1:13.6	France. We're talking about Chateau de Kim here that has been around for a long time,
1:23.4	is very clean. Like a lot of famous people throughout history have been drawn to it in weird
1:28.1	obsessive ways and he's really, really into it. And I thought, well, that's kind of interesting.
1:34.2	One of the things that I've known about Greg Popovich for a long time is how he loves to share
1:38.6	experiences over meals and his love of wine, although dessert wine is a little bit surprising here
1:45.3	because probably the most famous thing about Pop outside of his excellence as a coach is that he
1:51.5	is anything but sweet, particularly when he deals with the media. Okay, what do you want?
1:59.7	I'm so tired of this. Come on, you're getting paid. Ask something. Have you been in these sessions
2:07.6	before? I've said this like 10 times and I'm not writing your article for you. Ask one of your
2:12.6	colleagues. You're going to start. Can somebody else start? Because these questions are like
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