Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich will miss Wednesday night’s game against the Indiana Pacers with what the team is describing as a “medical issue.”
Assistant Ettore Messina will coach the team, becoming the first European-born person to coach an NBA team.
Messina joined Popovich’s staff as an assistant last summer.
He coached Russian club CSKA Moscow from 2005 to 2009 and again from 2012 to 2014.