As you may recall, back in March, famed European coach Ettore Messina was able to visit with the San 
Antonio Spurs and spend eight days on the Spurs bench as an observer.
However, according to solobasket.it, Messina and the Spurs met at the Euroleague Final Four where Messina could be offered an assistant coaching job with San Antonio:
The trip to Texas, as we read about “Republic”, is likely to be repeated at the beginning of next week after Messina met again with the leaders of the Spurs in Barcelona at the Euroleague Final Four.
The Italian coach has not ruled out a future in the NBA San Antonio and could offer him a job as an assistant to Popovich and then take over one or two years.
Though it is unlikely he would take over the coaching reigns for the Spurs seeing how another highly qualified coach has been sitting next to Gregg Popovich for years – Mike Budenholzer – Messina says if he were to come to the NBA it would strictly be as an assistant coach but doesn’t rule out the possibility of becoming a head coach.
If the report is true, what do you think Spurs fans?
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