This article is fascinating. It is wonderfully written and full of takeaways, if you read carefully. Here’s a short teaser from the beginning:
“As much as [Coach] Popovich knows about hoops, he really knows food and wine. ‘I don’t know that he doesn’t know more about wine than he does about basketball,’ former Spurs assistant coach P.J. Carlesimo says. Popovich scouts restaurants and wine lists as obsessively as he might any opponent. Before games, in his office, he can be found watching the Food Network. Sommeliers and restaurateurs claim to owe their careers to the man.… As absurd as it seems, one of the greatest basketball coaches in history might be more revered in the culinary world.”
Read the whole thing, the ending is worth it.