Jeff Van Gundy Fined for Outburst At Refs during Magic Celtics Game 2

[CelticsandVolsfan34]

Van gundys only mad cuz his brother is the magics coach

[TheFakeAdmin]

ray allen missing a 3??!?!??!?!?

[rjaykyo03]

i wonder if JJ's shot went in :)

[cowboy4life13]

Get off van gundy I love listening to him with mark Jackson it was always a great time.. Wonder who's replacing jackson

[espened]

only shocking thing in this video was that ray allen missed a three.

[NotreDameCatholic90]

Van Gundy was 100% right!!!! The NBA fines you if you fart out loud anymore these days.

[Raptorel]

Wait, who fined him? The NBA is not empowered to fine TV commentators.

[BDillz8228]

The NBA can't take criticism

[Dogfacesoulja8582]

Maybe they fined him cause he was a dumb, short, bald, ugly midget who should not be calling games. Seriously, what has Jeff Van Gundy done to make him worth listening to? He had that 1 fluke year during the 99 strike season when the Knicks reached the finals. Since then, what? Losing in the 1st round countless times. He sucks as a coach and a commentator, and I wish Mourning would've kicked the shit out that midget when Van Gundy held his leg

[davidkkt34]

@Dogfacesoulja8582

You really don't know shit if you think that JVG shouldn't be calling games. You really don't. Stfu.

[QdsWhhj]

nba refs are the worst in professional sports.....

it puzzles me why the league is so quick to defend them when they frequently call basketball games improperly

NBA is the only professional sport where u can see the refs make bad calls at least 5 - 10 times a game and nobody can apparently do anything about it or get it changed

[Fossil87]

Neither should be fined. Stern is ruining the league and this is a perfect example. I'm not sure what Jackson's comments entailed, but JVG's criticism is spot on. Players get Td up for having a simple reaction to a play. Doesn't matter if they swear or are abrasive towards refs, any disagreement at all = technical. This kind of crap is turning the NBA into a joke.

[DACEMAN305]

Jeff Van Gundy speaks the truth and has no remorse for it, love the guy and also the cast all three work perfect with each other.

[btak90]

anyone see that travel at 0:29

[lmaostrnoob]

Look at Carter's face at 0:15. Priceless lmfao looks like he's high and sad at the same time.

[clyde1400]

Sadly....the NBA is a pussy league nowadays.

[bballbreakdown]

@clyde1400 Alas, perhaps you're right. Stay tuned tomorrow for real time tweets @bballSource and a breakdown right after the Celtics Lakers game!

Coach Nick

[jimmyb6281]

@clyde1400 Agreed bro...all the Nba cares about is money money money...they fined Kobe 100 grand for saying 2 words....are you kidding me....and now they are relocating teams for no good reason....being a sonics fan and seeing the team had a 41 year history and almost had a championship 10 years ago David Stern's dumb @ss still took them to OKC...

[clyde1400]

@jimmyb6281 Im glad you guys feel the same...I mean sports is all about being competitive, we wanna see passion and emotion, thats WHY we watch. I dont watch sports to see a guy do a powerful dunk wide open on a breakaway, then start yelling with that look on entitlement all over their face...I wanna see real people playing real sports with real emotions and effort.

[lilgip]

@clyde1400 youre so rite man, i mean what does the NBA want a bunch of fuckin robots with no emotion? Players and coaches showin emotion is good bcuz it indicates that they actually care and have a love for the game itself. i mean they shouldnt be fined even for minor scuffles or arguments, it adds value to the game, fans actually feel like the players really want to win and dats somtin i dnt mind payin to see. scrappin for loose balls, gettin in someones face, lettin everyone kno i came to win

[clyde1400]

@lilgip I wish they brought the old rules back into the NBA....hand checking, no 3sec in the key defense, etc etc etc. When I think back at the games I remember from the past, they were gritty, passionate, competitive. Now the NBA is all fluff....its just "entertainment" now....not even good entertainment....its like following celebrities and gossip rather than watching a good ol competitive game that players take seriously.

[americajn768]

@clyde1400 now its just play acting. it just seems like it because how is it possible when for example chicago is 3-0 against the heat in the regular season but in the playoffs they lose to them 4-1. 2011 nba season was just so stupid. i like the other seasons but not this one

[clyde1400]

@americajn768 I agree....I cant wait for the lockout...then I wont feel pressured to watch the NBA just because I like basketball.

[americajn768]

@clyde1400 well you know how the NBA did this right? they got paid. idk who by but they just wanted to see the so called great comeback for LeShit James and his Miami Heat team. if your a lebron fan im sry to say that. said that just incase

[clyde1400]

@americajn768 I hate Lebron James and everything he stands for. 

[rockerkid97]

a commentators job is to voice his/hers opinion to the audience listening to make the games more interesting.... thats all van gundy did, voice his opinion - do his job.. u cant get get fined for that

[bballbreakdown]

@rockerkid97 Fair enough. Stay tuned tomorrow for real time tweets @bballSource and a breakdown right after the Celtics Lakers game!

Coach Nick

[aswdwd]

wtf its called freedom of speech and hes not part of the nba hes part of espn now they want him to voice his opinion to create more interest for the fans

[bballbreakdown]

@aswdwd You are right - he should voice his opinion - when a coach does it like that, they're fined - weird double standard to me....

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[aswdwd]

@bballbreakdown bro r u fuckin retarded or blind that u didnt read wat i said the first time jeff van gundy doesnt work for nba anymore an nba team doesnt have a contract with him espn has a contract with him and espn allows there people to free express their opinions as long as it is appropriate and within their guidlines and same goes for the nba and one of the guidelines for the nba is u cant say bad shit bout refs its that simply u idiot

[bballbreakdown]

@aswdwd If you don't think the NBA has incredible influence on how ESPN presents its product, then you are the one who is either retarded or blind. This is a business, and the NBA tends to have tight restrictions on what everyone affiliated with the league says in public. Look at how guys are fined for tweeting...

[aswdwd]

@bballbreakdown bro if u think that the NBA controls someone who is hired by espn to voice its opinion and provide analysis then ur fuckin retarded becuz its obvious hes didn't fined because the nba doesn't pay him espn does u dumbasss

[bballbreakdown]

@aswdwd I'm not saying he's not allowed to voice his opinion and provide analysis. I'm saying he crossed the line by calling out a specific referee and arguing that he had lost so much emotional control that he was going to affect the outcome of the game. And I can guarantee the NBA reviews what is said and voices their concerns to ESPN, TNT, and ABC when their product is talked about in a negative light. Why can't you accept that?

[aswdwd]

nba review hardly matter all the commentators still voice their opinion because that wat is says in there contract thats y u have people like skip bayless and charles barkley and jeff van gundy also he didnt cross the line because it was a very bad call and then u call a technical foul on somethin so little hell yea it can affect the outcome vince carter went to the bench and it gave a celtics an extra point also nba product is talked negatively by many people the nba cant fine them for anything

[aswdwd]

@bballbreakdown ur fuckin retard the nba cant have any say in wat espn doesnt because nba doesnt pay espn its actually the other way around so theirs no way nba can do anything bout wat commentators say and also he didnt cross the line it was a terrible call first of all and also then u t him up for getting mad that u made a bad call hes rite wat if the free throw cost them the game because if the celtics win by 1 u can say that free throw helped. idk y u wud even post this on youtube

[rfoster14]

@bballbreakdown Ya nba players that tweet. If jeff van gundy had any nba job at all, he probably would be fined. But, he works for ESPN, so you made this up. I don't know where you heard about this, but I guarantee you probably misunderstood.

[rfoster14]

@rfoster14 just figured it out. lol. Jeff wasn't fined, his brother stan was. cuz he coaches the magic. you got the wrong van gundy.

[rcinglad]

@bballbreakdown NBA needs to do somethin about these idiot refs.

[Epimpin101]

The NBA referees are the worse referees in all of sports imo... so when people call them out good job, and Jeff is usually right on most things he says.

[byrdxmann]

van gundy is a boss

[stevechen1991]

If Van gundy gets fined for this....then that dumass celtics broadcast Tommy Heisen should be broke by now,that man says some dumass shit on tv.fuck them Celtics they are done!

[slipstream17]

why the hell should van gundy be fined? he's a commentator! he's allowed to speak his mind! to a certain point, and disagreeing with the referee is well within the boundaries that he's allowed! phil jackson was fined because he's part of the game! Van gundy's rants have no effect on the game at all!

[bballbreakdown]

@slipstream17 Good point - he seemed to go a little overboard in my opinion....

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[rebelclown]

can somebody tell me what the name of the song at the end of this vid is? thanks

[bballbreakdown]

@rebelclown Paper Planes by MIA - on the Slumdog Millionaire Soundtrack.

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[ButtZilla1031]

Well, if Stern wants a Lakers VS Celtics classic match up then there's nothing you can do about it. But VC did choke and Reddick stuffed up. But again the whole team kind of sucked.

I kept wondering what if the Magic were playing well? Are the Celtics still a match up for them consider how bad the Magic played and still a close game, 2 games that is.

.....

[bballbreakdown]

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[GaryJiangMusic]

Just terrible

[birh]

He's not gonna get fined.

He's a commentator, thats what hes supposed to do, comment on the game.

Phil Jackson is a coach, his job is to coach.

Just like players are players, their job is to play.

[bballbreakdown]

@birh No one is talking about it, so I guess nothing will happen. But you know how the NBA is with their image...

[foxfire1112]

lol this is funny I made a joke to my friend yesterday saying "watch he is gonna get fined" and he said "Can commentators get fined?". They hand out fines way too much, I mean look at any other sport when they crit the refs, nothing.

[bballbreakdown]

@foxfire1112 The NBA is way into their image, so I imagine they hate to have anything remotely unseemly about reffing said on their broadcast - especially since Donaghy's book came out...

Coach Nick

[MrKicks2010]

Phil does that crap on purpose though lol.. not like he doesn't make more than that per game, plus Jerry Buss probably reimburses him on the side.. As far as that outburst, thats why Jeff van gundy got this job, lol he's got a history of being pretty blunt and that attracts a lot of viewers/listeners.

[bballbreakdown]

@MrKicks2010 Yes - the Lakers seem to always get calls their way after one of Phil's diatribes. And yes, I'm sure Jerry gives his daughter some cash to give to her boyfriend. I love Van Gundy, think he's the best analyst since Al McGuire, and maybe ESPN will cover the cost of the fine. ;)

[ultimatederon]

Now, I also feel that Deroza (sp?), the referee that threw the ball at the Magic fan at halftime should be suspended for the remainder of the playoffs. You can not cross the line and throw the ball at a fan.

[bballbreakdown]

@ultimatederon I think that's a little harsh punishment for the ref. I suppose he knew that by tossing him the ball, if the fan tossed it back, he could get him kicked out for "throwing something" on the court. But the fan didn't fire it back at him hard - so I commend the fan for showing some restraint. That said, he should be punished, and probably will be. You know how concerned David Stern is with the NBA's image.

[ultimatederon]

Honestly, as a former coach and NBA announcer I feel that he has the right to speak on the matter. In this instance, I believe he was right. Carter was not directing anger towards the refs. He was just looking at the replay as he walked back to the bench. The refs attention should not be on the player walking back to the bench, especially when the Celtics are at the FT line on the opposite side of the court.

[bballbreakdown]

@ultimatederon I apologize if I made it sound like I disagree with Van Gundy. He is absosutely correct in what he said - it should NOT have been a T. I'm just wondering how he doesn't get fined anyway...

Coach Nick

[LoneshotHero]

It didn't sound like he said anything out of line to me. When you toss in the incident between the fan and a ref he was right on point about the officials being a little too emotional themselves, considering the game isn't about them.

[bballbreakdown]

@LoneshotHero Don't you agree that if a coach had said this at the press conference after the game, he would be fined?

[rcinglad]

@bballbreakdown wow, nba is really soft now a days its sad.