Dan Coyle
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378 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 8 Jul
Dan Coyle’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He's a big epicurean and a stoic.
there was a moment like right after, I think when they lost that super painful game to Miami in 2014, you know, they were basically gonna win the championship.
Miami comes back, hits several crazy shots to win.
They had the restaurant all prepared for the celebration.
So the temptation was, oh, let's just go back to the hotel.
This was the most gut-wrenching loss maybe in the history of the NBA.
And there's an account, I talked to the assistant coach, said, Popovich said, no, we're going to the restaurant.
We're going.
And he gets there early, and he sits in a chair in the restaurant, and he looks as broken as a man has ever looked.
Like, he's just destroyed.
The bus pulls up, he straightens himself up, he takes a deep breath, and he walks to the door, and he smiles, and he starts greeting all the players.
And then they gather at that dinner with families and everything.
He puts the players at the center table, and he spends the night.
The coach said it was like watching a father at a wedding.
Like, helping every... Lifting everybody up.
But, like, for me, like, that is just the supreme self-control to serve the common good.
Like, it took an immense amount of command for him to be able to do... I don't think... All of us want to go curl up in that moment, right?
And feel sorry for ourselves.
But to actually take that breath, make that smile, and make that evening happen.
And at the end, they were, like, rejuvenated.
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