Turns out there’s a cost of doing business in the playoffs. For Stan Van Gundy, it was a $25,000 bill.
That’s what the NBA fined Van Gundy for his comments between the first and second quarters of Sunday’s Game 1 when he was interviewed by ABC sideline reporter Lisa Salters.
His larger point was that he was instructing his team to not allow their frustrations to bubble over and affect their play when fouls they thought should have been called on LeBron James went against them.
“A couple calls have upset our guys,” he told Salters.