Comments on: Stan Van Gundy on NBA Countdown: ESPN is Lying. “That’s a bunch of BS from ESPN”

By: chatterbox

chatterbox — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 15:02:46 +0000

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.

By: A.P.

A.P. — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 03:41:15 +0000

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

By: Benjamin Franklin Rodriguez has the highest WAR evah!

Benjamin Franklin Rodriguez has the highest WAR evah! — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 03:35:37 +0000

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.

By: Some Random Old Dude

Some Random Old Dude — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 03:02:44 +0000

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.

By: roger from oz

roger from oz — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 02:57:49 +0000

Stern is a bully. ESPN is a joke.

By: sandibalz

sandibalz — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 01:57:53 +0000

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.

By: ohheelyeah

ohheelyeah — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 01:56:51 +0000

J-Monk always gets his man. Always.

By: Benjamin Franklin Rodriguez has the highest WAR evah!

Benjamin Franklin Rodriguez has the highest WAR evah! — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 01:56:35 +0000

You gotta have no balls whatsoever to pay someone hundreds of millions of dollars and let them run your business.

so this means Stan Van won’t be working at ESPN anytime in the future?

By: RexKramerDangerSeeker

RexKramerDangerSeeker — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 01:53:54 +0000

I hate the NBA and pretty much all involved, but I love this story. Nice work, Jason.

By: jayhawk88

jayhawk88 — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 01:49:40 +0000

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.

By: Flaccid Indigestion

Flaccid Indigestion — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 01:49:34 +0000

Nice reporting TBL. Glad your post was able to spur some dialogue on this as I hate Countdown as it was last season.

/serious

By: A.P.

A.P. — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 01:19:22 +0000

/team SVG

By: me0713

me0713 — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 01:19:09 +0000

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

By: MeandWillieMcGee

MeandWillieMcGee — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 01:16:26 +0000

SVG is both insufferable and wonderful. This is a great story.

By: 808

808 — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 01:15:39 +0000

shots fired?