Jeff Van Gundy winning first NBA title with Celtics would just feel wrong
NY Post
DALLAS — Listen, it’s not the equivalent of Wade Boggs taking a victory lap around Yankee Stadium on a horse. That’s an image of betrayal Bostonians took about eight years to get over — until their Red Sox fell in a 3-0 series hole in the 2004 ALCS and … never mind, too soon.
But it’ll still be difficult for Knicks faithful to see (or at least imagine) Jeff Van Gundy, a main character of the Knicks’ last golden era, getting his first NBA title with the friggin’ Celtics.
Van Gundy was unceremoniously dumped by ESPN before last season — a poor decision by the network exacerbated by the drifting minds of his replacements (Doc Rivers, JJ Redick). Van Gundy joined the Celtics as a senior consultant, labeled by coach Joe Mazzulla as “a huge weapon.”
And within his first season in Boston — after spending more than 12 years with the Knicks until 2001 — Van Gundy is a win away from receiving a ring. I’m guessing it will have a shamrock on it.
Doesn’t feel right.
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