Spurs coach Gregg Popovich offers lessons on identity that Lakers can learn from

LOS ANGELES — There’s Coachspeak, and there’s Coach Pop Speak.
With a blend of perspective and gentle sarcasm, San Antonio’s head basketball professor delivered a philosophy lesson that Lakers fans might find interesting before Monday’s game against the Lakers at Staples Center.
The topic of study: Identity.
As in, how does a team whose members are mostly unfamiliar with one another – such as his Spurs, or, perhaps, L.A.’s Lakers – establish such a