 On July 3, 2015, Spurs coach Gregg Popovich met with Aldridge for a personal second meeting with the team, which included lunch together.That turned out to be one of the deciding factors moving forward to where LaMarcus decided to sign a four-year, $80 million deal to play with the Spurs moving forward on the Fourth of July.On a June 28, 2016 episode of Adrian Wojnarowski's podcast Vertical Pod with Woj, Suns general manager Ryan McDonough remarked that an Aldridge meeting with Pat Riley in Miami may have inadvertently led to Aldridge's final decision.