Stan Van Gundy on NBA Countdown: ESPN is Lying. “That’s a bunch of BS from ESPN”
Stan Van Gundy joined Dan LeBatard on the Ticket in Miami Wednesday, and at the end of the first hour (28 minute mark here), our SVG-David Stern-NBA Countdown story was read on the air. Stan Van Gundy took a deep breath and responded:
“No one at ESPN will tell us what happened. Certainly the NBA office isn’t going to tell us what happened. One of the quotes from ESPN in there – we had discussions, but couldn’t agree on a role … as is usual, that’s a bunch of BS from ESPN.
We actually did agree on a role, but then they came back and pulled that. That’s when we knew something was up.
Nobody is going to give a straight answer because … that’s just the way a lot of people operate … nobody there has the guts to say anything, so that’s what you deal with.
What I find fascinating … you have to give David Stern and the NBA a lot of credit … ESPN pays the league, and then the league tells them what to do. It’s more ESPN’s problem. You gotta have no balls whatsoever to pay someone hundreds of millions of dollars and let them run your business.
Just say what happened. Who cares? Who cares if I’m on there or not. Just come out and say this is what we decided and why … [ESPN's quote] that’s just a flat out lie. Why would you do that? I don’t understand. We agreed on something, you changed your mind and pulled the offer. Don’t say we couldn’t come to an agreement. We did.”
We’re looking forward to ESPN’s reply tomorrow.
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October 10th, 2012 at 9:15 PM
shots fired?
October 10th, 2012 at 9:16 PM
SVG is both insufferable and wonderful. This is a great story.
October 10th, 2012 at 9:19 PM
ESPN has gotten so corporate that this is the norm for them now. Journalism doesn’t exist there, the fact that their on air guys at MNF called out the NFL on the replacement refs was astounding in itself
October 10th, 2012 at 9:19 PM
/team SVG
October 10th, 2012 at 9:49 PM
Nice reporting TBL. Glad your post was able to spur some dialogue on this as I hate Countdown as it was last season.
/serious
October 10th, 2012 at 9:49 PM
I want him and his brother on a broadcast team together. I don’t really care if we wouldn’t get any play-by-play, just let me listen to these two talk about basketball and tear everyone in the world a new asshole for three hours twice a week.
They have to have a podcast at a minimum. Someone please make this happen.
October 10th, 2012 at 9:53 PM
I hate the NBA and pretty much all involved, but I love this story. Nice work, Jason.
October 10th, 2012 at 9:56 PM
so this means Stan Van won’t be working at ESPN anytime in the future?
October 10th, 2012 at 9:56 PM
J-Monk always gets his man. Always.
October 10th, 2012 at 9:57 PM
Where’s the ombudsman?
AND ESPN gave up journalism a long time ago. So if everyone could just lower the bar it might not seem that terrible.
October 10th, 2012 at 10:57 PM
Stern is a bully. ESPN is a joke.
October 10th, 2012 at 11:02 PM
I am digging this sooooo much. SVG is free, and doesn’t want to get back under the thumb of the Man.
Go where you wanna go, SVG.
And for you Jason…go get ‘em, brotha. Stir it up.
October 10th, 2012 at 11:35 PM
I think he has it half right. ESPN is being ran by a bunch of pussies. I don’t think Stern had to put in a call to the network to affect this change. It’s not like Stan’s brother is a shrinking violet, and he still has his job.
October 10th, 2012 at 11:41 PM
I think Darrell should be on NBA Countdown. He’d just run around the set flipping off Magic while wearing a Melo jersey and yelling “TOP 5 MOTHERFUCKER!” over and over again
October 11th, 2012 at 11:02 AM
What I find fascinating … you have to give Roger Goodell and the NFL a lot of credit … ESPN pays the league, and then the league tells them what to do. It’s more ESPN’s problem. You gotta have no balls whatsoever to pay someone hundreds of millions of dollars and let them run your business.