Popovich delivered a powerful message on race and creating change.

Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich opened up about racism and the killing of George Floyd in an emotional video Saturday. 

Popovich said he’s “embarrassed as a white person” to know Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, could die in such a horrific way while Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin put his knee on Floyd’s neck in a “nonchalant” manner for over eight minutes. 

“In a strange, counterintuitive sort of way, the best teaching moment of this recent tragedy, I think, was the look on the officer’s face,” Popovich said in the video, which is part of the #SpursVoices series online. “For white people to see how nonchalant, how casual, just how everyday-going-about-his job, so much so that he could just put his left hand in his pocket, wriggle his knee around a little bit to teach this person some sort of a lesson—and that