San Antonio Spurs assistant coach Mike Budenholzer is the most likely candidate to replace head coach Gregg Popovich should Pop ever decide it’s time to retire. There’s no telling when that will be, so for now, Coach Bud is Pop’s top assistant.

Budenholzer has been on Popovich’s staff for 16 years, making him a very sought-after candidate for head coaching positions around the league. Lately, he has seemed more open to the possibility of taking one of those positions.

He recently interviewed with the Detroit Pistons and is being considered a candidate for the job. The Pistons are trying to find a replacement for Lawrence Frank, who was fired after this season.

There has been no indication from either party yet as to whether or not this will lead to Coach Bud taking the job. The Pistons have also interviewed former head coach Nate McMillan and a few other potential candidates.

The San Antonio Spurs (7-2) will look to put away the Golden State Warriors (6-5) tonight in Oakland in Game 6 of their Semifinals series.

The Spurs are coming off a convincing 109-91 win over the Warriors in Game 5 in San Antonio. Tony Parker led the team with 25 points and 10 assists in the win. Harrison Barnes finished with 25 points for a second consecutive game for the Warriors.

And as the Spurs look to end the Warriors' season, and advance to face the Grizzlies in the West Finals, here are five things to watch for during tonight's game.

• The Spurs are 3-0 in the road in the postseason when scoring 100 points or more.

The San Antonio Spurs cruised to a 109-91 win at home in Game 5 of their Semifinals series against the Golden State Warriors and will now head back to Oakland for Game 6 tomorrow.

The Spurs completely had control of Game 5 from winning the rebound battle, hard-nose defense to containing the Warriors' duo of Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson.

After the game, Tim Duncan gave his thoughts on the win and said he liked the team defense, closing out on Golden State three-point shooters, keeping the Warriors off the glass and more. Check out what Duncan had to say including how great Kawhi Leonard's play was in Game 5.

“There is no stop until the board is secured.”

That was Gregg Popovich after Tuesday's Game 5 victory over the Golden State Warriors.  It was the first time in the series and only second time in the playoffs they've won the rebounding battle.  This series has been particularly rough the San Antonio Spurs have allowed the Warriors to grab over 51 rebounds per game, including 13.4 offensive boards per game. 

Make no mistake, the Spurs have done a really good on defense this series, especially on Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson, but they're a -31 on the boards for the series.  A good example of the Spurs' rebounding woes came in Game 4's overtime loss, when the Warriors grabbed 19 offensive rebounds and converted those in to 16 second chance points.

We didn’t know too much about Davis Bertans when he was drafted by the San Antonio Spurs in 2011. He was widely considered to be a steal, considered the best shooter in the draft, and was likely a draft and stash since he was still very raw and young.

Early on Bertans drew comparisons to Dirk Nowitzki, but was also thought to be a little one-dimensional as a tall player who didn’t have the strength to play inside or have the speed or athleticism to play in a true swingman role, so he would be relegated in an outside spot-up shooter’s role.

The San Antonio Spurs have a knack at finding NBA talent overseas and it appears the team has eyes on another foreign basketball talent.

According to Eurohoops.net, the Blazers may be looking to trade Greek forward Kostas Papanikolaou of Olympiacos and the Spurs are interested in acquiring his rights among other teams.

AT&T Center – Let’s go back to May 2, 2012. The San Antonio Spurs were in the first round of their 2012 playoff run and had just defeated the Utah Jazz to take a 2-0 series lead before sweeping the Jazz a few days later.

That day, Jazz coach Ty Corbin made a comment about San Antonio Spurs point guard Tony Parker that echoed a year later, as the Spurs defeated the Golden State Warriors by 18 points to take a 3-2 series lead Thursday.

“He’s a good player,” said Corbin of Parker a year ago, “and as he goes, his team goes.”

A year later, Danny Green had this to say of Parker, “When he does well, we do well.”

“He’s our generator offensively,” added Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich. “If he’s not aggressive then everything seems to slow down, so it’s important that he keeps that up.”

AT&T CENTER—The NBA Playoffs are a stage unlike any other in sports. In the shortened confines of a best-of-seven series, every moment of every game is magnified, yet measured.

A hot hand, shooting slump, or quirky matchup—things that can be written off as statistical outliers over the course of an 82-game season—can prove devastating in a race to just four victories. But as each playoff series extends into their fifth, sixth, or seventh games, and one series bleeds into another, these anomalies have a way of balancing out over time, allowing for the best combination of talent and process to advance.

AT&T Center – On Monday, I tweeted this.

#Spurs' 3-point shooters across the board are struggling shooting the basketball. Manu-Green-Kawhi-Neal are a combined 42-of-126 from three.

— Paul Garcia PS (@24writer) May 14, 2013

As the San Antonio Spurs’ key shooters struggle to find their rhythm against the Golden State Warriors four games into their series (2-2), missed shots have become a team-wide issue for the Spurs.

The matchup of the Game for Game 5 will be between Manu Ginobili and Jarrett Jack.

San Antonio Spurs guard Manu Ginobili had a breakout game for the series in Game 4 with 21 points (8-18 FG) and 50% shooting (5-10) from beyond the arc, but the team still fell to the Golden State Warriors. While Ginobili had a great game, the majority of his points came in the first half with 0 points in overtime. The Spurs will need him to have a balanced game, scoring throughout the game, and making his jumpers to make the defense stop collapsing in the paint. Jarrett Jack also had a great shooting night with 24 points (9-16 FG) for the Warriors off the bench and will look to have a repeat performance as the team's sixth man.

What Ginobili must do on offense: