Less than five months after being let go by the Pistons, Stan Van Gundy has reportedly lined up a new gig. According to Andrew Marchand of The New York Post, Van Gundy has reached an agreement to become a studio analyst for ESPN’s NBA coverage.
As Marchand notes, Van Gundy nearly joined ESPN several years ago but had that deal fall apart at the 11th hour, so it’s worth mentioning that the former Pistons head coach has yet to officially sign his contract with the network. Still, it appears he’ll be joining his brother Jeff Van Gundy at the Worldwide Leader for the upcoming NBA season — while Stan will be a studio analyst, Jeff is on ESPN’s top broadcasting team alongside Mike Breen and Mark Jackson.
Van Gundy, who was also serving as the Pistons’ president of basketball operations before he was dismissed by the club, was disappointed by the decision and said in the wake of his firing that he wanted to coach again. Last month, after he failed to secure a coaching job for the 2018/19 season, Van Gundy admitted that he wasn’t sure about his future plans
“I want to do something, but if I’m not coaching, I don’t want to work too hard,” he said at the time.
Given the research and preparation required for a TV analyst role, presumably Van Gundy has changed course on that stance, but we’ll have to see what he sounds like on the air to be sure.
SVG and SVP? Lol
Better than Jeff by a mile
Not Stan please!! Jeff & his sidekick Marc Jackson are bad enough. Way too much opinion & extraneous dialogue. (What we would do to NBA if we were in charge) kind of crap. Please, lets hear about the players & game, facts, stats, logic, strategy etc. Instead of those bozo’s opinions. Doris Burke has ten times the analyst skeels those Frick n Frack twins do combined. She sticks to the game and does a great job. I switch off the volume for Frick N Frack. They tried to do analysis on the Clear Path ruling last season and screwed it up so bad after the definition was read that he just punted and pretended not to hear it and just motormouthed onward. fire F & F, bring on Doris….
yikes…
His voice is as terrible as he is as a human.
I’m expecting him to be an asset & more nuts n bolts than bro Jeff… who I usually agree with anyway.
Stan will need to get a sportcoat that can actually button up closed. something he didn’t have in Detroit