Before drafting him, Greg Popovich planned a physical workout to test Tony Parker. “That guy’s going to be a starting PG ... for 10 years,” Popovich said after it. On Saturday, Parker will be the first French player enshrined into the Hall of Fame.
and added seven assists as the international team nearly upset an American squad that included numerous future NBA players, including Zach Randolph, Nick Anderson, Darius Miles and Jared Jeffries.
When the jet-lagged teenager tried to go one-on-one against Blanks, he was no match. The Spurs scout dominated the skinny youngster. More damning for Popovich was Parker’s cavalier attitude on hearing his harsh assessment, according to Hubbard’s account. “So, when the workout didn’t go well, it was a tough pill to swallow. It was the equivalent of introducing your girlfriend to your parents and they didn’t like her.”
“I stacked it, brought in a couple of guys to beat him up, more or less,” Popovich said before Parker’s jersey retirement ceremony. “All we did was post. We didn’t let him play out on the court at all. I just wanted to see what he was made of and if he was going to fold, and see how physical he could be, or what he could take and what he could dish out.”After the tryout, Buford, Presti, Egan and Budenholzer waited outside the gym to hear Popovich’s verdict.
“I remember the lady from the NBA coming to get me,” Parker said in 2019 before his jersey retirement ceremony. “There was, like, three minutes on the clock. She came to get me and said, ‘OK, you’re going to be the next one. They’re going to draft you, 19 or 21, something like that.’ ”, but before Parker could make the walk, something changed.
When NBA officials put the Spurs on the clock, it had barely begun ticking when their representative in New York gleefully pronounced that Parker was the club’s selection. “The lady from the NBA” again told Parker to be ready to walk across the stage to shake hands with the commissioner. Though committed to Parker as his starter, Popovich also was determined to slightly alter his style of play. With Duncan the focal point of the Spurs offense, he needed Parker to accept the John Stockton approach to playing the point.“ was a scoring guard,” Popovich said in an interview on Nov. 12, 2019. “He wasn’t really a point guard, on that spectrum, so to speak.
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