Spurs Coach Mitch Johnson: The Rise No One Saw Coming
Nobody had Mitch Johnson on their coaching radar two years ago. He was a career assistant, undrafted out of Stanford, quietly learning the Spurs system under Gregg Popovich while most of the basketball world debated which marquee name would eventually inherit one of the NBA’s most storied franchises. Then Popovich stepped back, Johnson got the interim tag, the interim tag became permanent, and — here’s where it gets genuinely surprising — the San Antonio Spurs are back in the playoffs. In his …