Jeff Van Gundy was part of a conference call to media members on Thursday in an effort to promote the NBA season. In that conference call, Van Gundy did not hold back when sharing his feelings on how the media handled the coverage of the Draymond Green punching of teammate Jordan Poole.
“I thought the coverage of it was shameful,” Van Gundy admonished, “immediately jumping to blaming the victim, in this case Poole, for a change of attitude which would have warranted him getting struck.”
Van Gundy pointed out that the coverage he saw didn’t pertain to the facts and investigating that, but instead chose sides.
“I just don’t get the victim blaming that immediately happened. The media, instead of trying to find out real facts, they went into their corner to people they were more beholden to. I found that very disappointing.”
