Le Batard said<\/a>. \u201cAnd I thought everything was going great where you were and I just didn\u2019t even know any of that was happening, because you\u2019re one of the best broadcasters in the game. So how or why is all of that happening, and congratulations on the new gig. Are these your last games?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\nVan Gundy handled it smoothly, reminding Le Batard of the very obvious reason he is leaving TNT.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re TNT\u2019s last games. We\u2019re headed out of the NBA business at the end of this series, so I had to find somewhere else to go,\u201d the former coach said. \u201cIf you\u2019re not going to have NBA games, I\u2019m not of a lot of value. So I had to. It was out of necessity. I had to find somewhere else to go, and I was very lucky that Amazon was willing to give me another opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n
Perhaps Le Batard was trying to word his question cleverly to get a confirmation out of Van Gundy. Amazon has not officially announced his hire.<\/p>\n
However, the two go back decades to when Le Batard was covering Van Gundy as coach of the Miami Heat. And given how comfortably Van Gundy confirmed the news anyway, it seems far-fetched to think Dan Le Batard would play dumb just to get his friend to talk about a reported new job. The more logical explanation is that Le Batard simply suffered a bad brain flub at precisely the wrong time.<\/p>\n
The veteran host caught himself as he wrapped the interview with Van Gundy, complimenting TNT\u2019s coverage of the Eastern Conference Finals.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou guys are going out with a bang,\u201d Le Batard said. \u201cIf these are the last games for TNT, TNT does it the best to the very end. Because all of this stuff has been wildly entertaining to watch.\u201d<\/p>\n
In case anyone else needs the reminder for the umpteenth time: These are the final days of the NBA on TNT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TNT losing rights to broadcast NBA games after nearly 40 years has been one of the biggest stories…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,2620,1278,2409,15875],"class_list":{"0":"post-65697","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-nba-on-prime-video","10":"tag-nba-on-tnt","11":"tag-stan-van-gundy","12":"tag-the-dan-le-batard-show-with-stugotz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114595941889205308","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}