Former San Antonio Spurs player Ime Udoka will be back in the silver and black this coming season, though he won’t be dawning the typical Spurs jersey fans are accustomed to seeing him wear. Instead he’ll most likely be wearing a Spurs polo or some sort of business suit.
In an entertaining piece by Ken Rodriguez for Spurs.com, Rodriguez explains how Udoka made the decision to take the vacant assistant coaching position with the Spurs while he was in of all places, Las Vegas.
Rodriguez wrote about Udoka’s situation of contemplating retirement or to continue playing overseas, but it was being approached by Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich that made Udoka consider the career change.
“I was excited,” Udoka says. “It was something he had mentioned to me years ago. But that possibility to me was way down the line. With Coach Newman going to Washington and Jacque to Orlando, something opened sooner than expected and here we are.”
Rodriguez goes on to make a conne...
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September 25, 2012
