"Always direct, Popovich made no bones about what was keeping Mills from being a viable option in his previous two seasons with the Spurs.
''He was a little fat ass,'' Popovich said. ''He had too much junk in the trunk. His decision making wasn't great, and he wasn't in great shape. He changed his entire body. He came back svelte and cut and understood you have to make better decisions, point-guard type decisions. He did all those things better and he earned it. He's been real important to us, obviously.'' "
''He was a little fat ass,'' Popovich said. ''He had too much junk in the trunk. His decision making wasn't great, and he wasn't in great shape. He changed his entire body. He came back svelte and cut and understood you have to make better decisions, point-guard type decisions. He did all those things better and he earned it. He's been real important to us, obviously.'' "