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By all accounts, former NBA head coach Stan Van Gundy seems like a pretty great guy.
Van Gundy spent two decades as a head coach in the NBA, making stops in Miami, Orlando, Detroit and New Orleans along the way.
He was twice named an NBA All-Star Game head coach and reached the NBA Finals with the Magic in 2009 before falling to the Los Angeles Lakers.
Now Van Gundy spends his time as a game analyst for TNT. He’s also incredibly active on Twitter, where he has a massive following.
In one recent Twitter rant, Van Gundy talked about the rising prevalence of injuries in the NBA despite more doctors, nutrition specialists, and players resting.
90’s NBA teams had just a trainer and a strength coach, they practiced more often and harder and played more back to backs. Teams now have huge medical & “performance” staffs and value rest over practice. Yet injuries and games missed are way up. Something’s not working!
— Stan Van Gundy (@realStanVG)
Brooklyn Nets superstar Kevin Durant agreed with Van Gundy.
Stan spittin…
— Kevin Durant (@KDTrey5)
Except Van Gundy didn’t know what Durant was saying.
No. I’m not criticizing players. I’m saying that we are getting something wrong in how we prepare and train players. We can’t do anything about injuries like yours, he fell on your leg. But all of these groin, hamstring injuries etc. shouldn’t be happening as much as they are.
— Stan Van Gundy (@realStanVG)
He quickly learned.
Stan, I agree with u lol
— Kevin Durant (@KDTrey5)
But you aren’t old like me
— Stan Van Gundy (@realStanVG)
Van Gundy, being the cool and hip 63-year-old man that he is, quickly took his newfound slang and applied it to his NBA on TNT broadcast.
"That may seem arrogant, but when you're spittin' you're spittin'" – Stan Van Gundy pic.twitter.com/lTzdHdjXsR
— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing)
Fans were cracking up at the lighthearted moment from the veteran head coach.
“When you’re spittin’ you’re spiitin’?
https://t.co/tplqAAmzP8
— Andyhausen (@AndySullivan12)
— Captain ScareAHoe (@Blvck_Mamba24)
Lol Stan just gets better and better man. https://t.co/6KU6ebTIPR
— Christian (@Flamingo_CK)
But wait, there’s more! Van Gundy’s vocabulary lesson didn’t just stop at him learning what “spittin'” means. He also broke up some other new words he must have learned recently. Twice in the last week SVG broke out the word “bussin” (which, for the uninitiated, is a slang word that equates to very good) on a broadcast.
An actual thing Stan Van Gundy said tonight: "LeBron's playmaking is bussin"pic.twitter.com/3Uc2aSx5dS
— Dime (@DimeUPROXX)
"That pass [by Josh Green] was bussin!"
Stan Van Gundy is at it again on the broadcast
pic.twitter.com/onU4irr8Ku
— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp)
Yet again, fans could not believe what they had just heard.
— BRODIE
(@Z_Herbo)
— Michael J Smith (@IvMathers)
— mj
(@dyl_mart)
Never change, Stan.
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