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What a goof! Fire that sad-eyed freak!
NBA Statement Regarding Houston Rockets Coach Jeff Van Gundy
NEW YORK, May 9 – NBA Deputy Commissioner Russ Granik today issued the following statement in regard to Houston Rockets coach Jeff Van Gundy:
“Over this past weekend, Coach Van Gundy publicly apologized for his comments last week suggesting bias in the league’s refereeing relating to Yao Ming. He has also confirmed directly to an NBA representative that, during the Houston/Dallas playoff series, he did not have any communication with a referee (working or non-working) other than, of course, during an ongoing game. In fact, his only conversations with league employees during the series were with league personnel in the normal course. In light of these cir stances, we now consider the matter to be closed.”
I guess this kills a couple more conspiracy theories.
What a goof! Fire that sad-eyed freak!
it only opens them further
threaten someones job and fine them 100 k
humm seems they want him to back off
I'm sure the ref who called Van Gundy is very grateful.
I think he is not telling the truth now
I think he told the truth before
another fine will be in the works... or hes saying this to keep the league from investigating who it was that leaked the information. Either way.. hes still got bad plugs.
What ducks said.
No way JVG gives up that ref's name, at any cost. That kind of info is worth way too much to his team.
No ref called Van Gundy. He lied. He made it up.
JVG went overboard and knows it.
I doubt he is telling the truth now. He is probably lieing to try to get away with it and then everyone will stop talking about it.
I think they covered their butts pretty well on this one.
David Aldridge reported that the refs got a complaint from Cuban about Yao's moving picks, so it's not like it's a secret. If JVG were making it up, he would probably have cited DA as the source.
Yeah but the point is no ref called JVG and told him that there was something posted on the league's ref website to call Yao for more offensive fouls. That's what Van Gundy claimed and that's what got him in trouble.
Didn't happen.
You know, all we know for sure is that NBA Deputy Commisioner Russ Granik said that Van Gundy admitted to lying. There's a big diffence between that and an admission directly from JVG. And I agree that even if he did "admit" to making the story up, it's a lie. He didn't make anything up. He's only trying to protect his sources. Of course the NBA wants everybody to believe that he made it up.
Thats one way to look at it...
personally I tend to believe that Van Gundy took the path of least resistance and crabbed on his original story knowing the league would drop it if he did.
Either way we know he lied once and we will never know for sure which time it was.
Stupid coach forum.
I don't think you can tell if JVG was lying then, nor now. Jeff's best option to stay in the league and save what face he had left with officials was to take this position (a made-up story). The only way. Stern had him dead-to-rights, in chess terms he had him in a "check" position with only one continuance move.
Whether then, or now, though. He lied.
I think it's obvious that JVG is protecting his source and trying to quell the controversy by making it go away the fastest way he can. I absolutely believe he was telling the truth the first time.
What the ever.
If you believe he lied, and if you think this debunks the refs dont call different calls for different players, your truely a sap.
I'm not arguing that refs may call things different for different players, blah blah. But I do not believe a ref called Van Gundy during the Rockets-Mavs series and told him they were targeting Yao because of Cuban's complaints (I'm not saying Cuban didn't complain), that it was on the website, and all that stuff.
why would a coach make this up?
To get calls.
Believe what you want, I dont doubt it a bit.
i don't believe that.. there are way better ways to get calls than saying a ref told you this or that....
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