Spurs' Gregg Popovich happy Stan Van Gundy is free at last

Just because Gregg Popovich's wife thinks he's sometimes a "jerk" doesn't mean the man can't be sympathetic.

The San Antonio coach who realizes that sometimes he can be short with the media (thus his wife's critique), he's nothing but a softy when it comes to his coaching breathen.

Appearing on 790 The Ticket in Miami, Popovich was also asked about the Dwight Howard-Stan Van Gundy passion play in Orlando. (Thanks to Sports Radio Interviews for the tip)

"It was agony. It was agony because when one of your colleagues, this is no BS ,but when one of your colleagues is as gifted as Stan and does as good of a job as he did and then every day is just this saga that won't go away it's no fun for anybody. You have to go to work every day, hear that, be a part of it, you have to try to be above it, you have to do your job, your team has to play hard for ya and it's really an impossible situation. George Karl went through that in Denver. It's bad for everybody so I'm just glad that he is finally a free man."