Former Knicks and Rockets coach Jeff Van Gundy, a logical candidate, declined to comment.
Last season, Van Gundy snarkily suggested the league should run 24 hours of Christmas games back-to-back.
"He's still the same player, " said former Knicks coach Jeff Van Gundy, who serves as an ESPN analyst.
The Nets have eliminated potential candidates Stan and Jeff Van Gundy as well.
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This will be the fifth consecutive year the commentator team of Breen, Jackson and Van Gundy has called The Finals.
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Mike Breen will be the voice of The Finals on ABC, joined by analysts Mark Jackson and Jeff Van Gundy and reporter Doris Burke.
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"If you look at it, the drop in the offensive numbers in 1999 was significant, the efficiency of players was poor, " Mr. Van Gundy said.
Beilein went on to explain how Van Gundy switched schools, heading to Nazareth around the same time Beilein left to take a job at LeMoyne.
Specifically, he was asked what it was like having Jeff Van Gundy on the team, but it turned out the questioner was off by a year.
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Also on the staff for one year with Jordan under Wenzel was unknown Jeff Van Gundy, who would, of course, go on to coach the New York Knicks before turning to broadcasting.
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"I actually feel sorry for people who have nothing to do on Christmas Day other than watch an NBA game, " Orlando Magic coach Stan Van Gundy grinched a couple of years ago.
Unlike in baseball, left handedness doesn't receive much attention in the NBA. "Other than scouting reports, it doesn't received much attention, " said Jeff Van Gundy, former head coach of the New York Knicks and Houston Rockets.
Yes, sports has its share of problems (Metta World Peace, we're looking at you), but it still has the power to provide some of the most compelling and unpredictable theater this side of a Stan Van Gundy news conference.
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Howard has long been clamoring for an exit from Orlando, and he was finally granted his wish, though not before playing a role in the firing of head coach Stan Van Gundy and resignation of general manager Otis Smith.
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"I would say the losers in many ways are the fans because you don't know what product you're going to get for a significant amount of money, " said Jeff Van Gundy, an ESPN commentator and former NBA coach who took the New York Knicks to the Finals during the lockout-shortened 1999 season.
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