The Spurs’ general manager and new coach were surprised by the team’s lottery luck but sounded thrilled about the future.

Mitch Johnson, who served as San Antonio's interim head coach for most of this season, replaces 29-year head coach Gregg Popovich.

Mitch Johnson will begin a new career chapter as the Spurs’ next head coach after Gregg Popovich stepped down and transitioned to the role of president of basketball operations on Friday,

The Spurs aren’t wasting any time putting Mitch Johnson front and center as their new head coach. Johnson will be on the stage in front of the ESPN cameras when the results of the NBA draft lottery are announced next Monday night at Chicago’s McCormick Place Convention Center,

The San Antonio Spurs announced Friday that coach Gregg Popovich was stepping down and Mitch Johnson would replace him as head coach.

Johnson, the acting coach for the final 77 games the Spurs played this season, will be the new coach of the team after Friday’s announcement by Gregg Popovich that he is stepping down and transitioning solely into being the team’s president of basketball operations.

He'd done it thousands of times before. Still, he hated it. Gregg Popovich, the morning of the San Antonio Spurs' annual media day, strutted to th

The Spurs promoted an assistant to head coach after the NBA's all-time coaching wins leader, Gregg Popovich, announced his transition to president of basketball operations.

Johnson, the interim coach in San Antonio this past season, becomes the third youngest active head coach in the NBA

"It was an easy decision and felt super confident in the human being that he is," says Spurs GM Brian Wright of taking interim tag off.

The NBA's all-time wins leader addressed his recovery from a stroke as he becomes team president and Mitch Johnson takes over as coach.

Player development is Mitch Johnson's top priority in his first offseason as head coach of the Spurs. "From Victor Wembanyama, De'Aaron Fox and Stephon Castle to Harrison Ingram, Riley Minix and David Duke,