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As Ray Romano joined Running Point successful its sophomore season, he looked to an NBA staple for inspiration pinch his performance.
The 2x Golden Globe nominee revealed that he based his Season 2 capacity arsenic nan Los Angeles Waves’ Head Coach Norm Stinson connected San Antonio Spurs president and erstwhile coach Gregg Popovich, pursuing his last-minute casting.
“I sewage nan connection and I had to travel successful adjacent week,” he explained to People. “And I usually do a small spot of an actory point and do a small backstory, but I didn’t really person nan time.”
Romano added, “I thought what NBA [should I look to] … Well, first of all, nan book was explaining who nan feline was. And past I for illustration … Who tin I emulate? And nan feline I thought of was [Gregg] Popovich. Yeah. I deliberation if I ever was a coach, I would beryllium adjacent to him. I’m adjacent to his property and I conscionable for illustration his demeanor and each that.
“That was nan base. And past we fto it spell from there,” Romano said.
Romano joined nan Season 2 cast of Running Point past October, replacing nan antecedently formed Robert Townsend arsenic Coach Stinson, a hoops savant-turned-social recluse who teams up pinch Isla (Kate Hudson) to re-discover his emotion for nan game, and life.
The domiciled was reconceived aft nan casting shuffle, pinch Romano joining nan accumulation for reshoots.
