The San Antonio Spurs are gone until November

Steve Kerr couldn't even be around for the 2017 Western Conference finals, such as they were. Spurs coach Gregg Popovich, expert assessor as ever stood, called his absence "a crap situation." He speaks for all of us. The former Spurs deep reserve and Golden State Warriors coach has missed 10 games since the persisting symptoms of his botched 2015 back surgery got in the way of his standing on the actual sidelines.