Gregg Popovich definitely threw shade at the election with his ‘Vote for Pedro’ shirt
Pedro 2016.
Russell Westbrook threw shade at Kevin Durant prior to their Thursday night matchup by wearing a photographer’s outfit. And somehow that wasn’t the only attire-related attempt at shade in the NBA that week.
But this one wasn’t a beef between players. Chances are this one is directed towards Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
On Sunday, San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich spoke to the press before the team’s game against the Los Angeles Clippers wearing a ‘Vote for Pedro’ shirt from Napoleon Dynamite. Given that the election is only a few days away and the way Pop likes to play games with members of the media, this is definitely an allusion to the former.
And although the shirt is a playful way to critique the snowballing goings on of the 2016 presidential election, he has not shied away from a more critical conversation surrounding politics and this country as a whole. He went into further detail with Esquire:
“I worry that maybe I’m being a little too pessimistic, but I’m beginning to have a harder time believing that we are not Rome. Rome didn’t fall in 20 days or 30 years. It took a couple hundred years. The question is: Are we in that process and we don’t even know it? I really am starting to think about that. It’s not just the two candidates. It’s the way the whole thing is being treated.”
Despite the ambivalence, Popovich has donated almost exclusively to the Democratic Party throughout the years. According to Sheridan Hoops, the Spurs’ coach donated $5,000 to Barack Obama’s reelection bid in 2012.
