Mitch Johnson saw 63x more Wikipedia readers than usual

What this article is

Mitchell Chase Johnson is an American professional basketball coach and former player who is the head coach for the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He replaced Gregg Popovich, who stepped down after 29 seasons. He previously served as the interim head coach and assistant coach of the Spurs, and served as an assistant coach for the Austin Spurs from 2016 to 2019. He played college basketball for the Stanford Cardinal.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 21 edits to this article on 2026-05-31, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Early life
• NBA
• Professional career
• San Antonio Spurs (2019–present)

What changed that day

The article lost 98 characters on balance that day. The largest single addition was 78 characters. See everything that changed on 2026-05-31 in Wikipedia's own diff view — that is where the reason for a surge is usually visible, written and sourced by the editors who were following the story.

How this was measured

Views are Wikimedia's own pageview counts for en.wikipedia, filtered to agent=user so automated traffic is excluded. The baseline is the median of the previous 60 days, which is used instead of the mean so that an earlier surge cannot flatten a later one. The multiple is the day's views divided by that median.