Report: Spurs approached Manu Ginobili for assistant coach position before hiring Tim

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The San Antonio Spurs delivered one of the delightful shocks of the offseason Monday by announcing that they had hired franchise legend Tim Duncan as an assistant on Gregg Popovich's coaching staff. As it turns out, Duncan might not have been their first choice. According to a report in the newsletter of The New York Times' Marc Stein, the Spurs initially had another Spurs great in mind to join Popovich on the bench: The assistant coaching concept, I'm told, was also broached with Ginobili, who has only been retired for one season and was apparently not quite ready to dive back in.