ESPN has made more questionable personnel decisions in recent years than even the Red Sox.
Oh, yeah. It’s that grim.
Particularly when it comes to the network’s NBA coverage — and, more damningly, the obvious direction of that coverage.
I still consider it ridiculous that the network fired Jeff Van Gundy — whose self-deprecating humor and coach’s perspective worked well enough for him to be part of the call of 17 NBA Finals — back in June 2023.
That ESPN lost Doc Rivers (who ditched his gig as a de facto replacement for Van Gundy to take the Bucks’ coaching job) and JJ Redick (Rivers’s replacement, who ditched the network to join LeBron James’s staff with the Lakers) within sixth months of each other falls somewhere between comedy and karma.