Gregg Popovich Marries Mary Barth Budenholzer

Gregg Popovich and Mary Barth Budenholzer married on September 16, according to a Bexar County marriage license obtained by TMZ and cited in reports published September 24. The license is the shared basis for the reported date; neither Popovich nor Budenholzer had publicly commented in the accounts reviewed. The marriage brings together Popovich, the longtime San Antonio Spurs coach who won five NBA championships, and Mary Barth Budenholzer, the former wife of Mike Budenholzer, who worked on Popovich’s Spurs coaching staff from 1996 to 2013. The reports do not establish when Popovich and Mary Barth Budenholzer began their relationship. The Spurs declined to comment on the marriage, according to the reports. Neither Popovich, Mary Barth Budenholzer nor Mike Budenholzer was quoted directly about it. The marriage license is the only described documentary basis for the wedding date, and the reports do not reproduce the record. The accounts say Mike and Mary Barth Budenholzer separated in 2016, but do not detail the underlying sourcing for that personal history.