A biography for Stan Van Gundyhasn’t been written yet.
“I love Greg Monroe.”
“Tyrone Corbin is a class act.”
“The league has been good to all of us in terms of what we get out of all these TV contracts and everything, so it would be a little disingenuous to complain too much. But if I had my way, we'd take a five-day break at Christmas. I mean it.”
“Selling advertising on jerseys is preferable to keep jacking up prices on the fans.”
“I think it inhibits a guy's development when he's simply handed minutes and doesn't have to do anything to earn them, and thus, there's no reason to work harder or change the way you play.”
“People with advantages don't tend to want to give them up. If you see it as a zero-sum game, then it will never change. If only the people who are disadvantaged speak out, then it's not enough. I don't want to overshadow their voices, but I want to support.”
“I'm sort of a negative guy.”
“If I'm going to be grinding, then I want to coach. If I'm not going to be coaching, I want to be semi-retired, at least.”
“If I ever feel a sense of anxiety, it's usually over things that I have some control over, or I'm anxious about me making the right decision.”
“My dad was a basketball coach, and so I went to his games. But baseball was the sport I could enjoy with him, whereas with basketball, I wasn't with him.”
“Holding people presumed to be innocent in jail pre-trial simply because they cannot afford to pay their bail extracts huge human and financial costs.”
“LeBron is LeBron. They're not going to call offensive fouls on him. He gets to do what he wants.”
“I meant what I said about how electing Donald Trump will set our country back. I stand by that. However, I do wish that I wouldn't have made the blanket statement about not respecting anybody who voted for Trump.”
“I've spent my entire life around coaches.”
“Shaq's a very sensitive guy.”
“The hardest thing to do in this league is to get a proven star. It's just very hard to do. It's hard to do in free agency; it's hard to do in trades. You get very few opportunities to do it.”
“I really think the people I run into in the NBA, whether it's the front office side or in coaching, everybody wants to work in an atmosphere where everybody's pulling in the same direction.”
“Tom Gores has been involved in the City of Detroit, not just the surrounding area.”
“When you have privilege, you have to been quiet and listen.”
“People of conscience are compelled to oppose racism, sexism, and intolerance of people with different sexual identities and orientation wherever and whenever they see it.”