Last night while watching the Lakers/Celtics game, I heard one of the nastiest jabs at Utah that I have heard in years. Jeff Van Gundy was talking about Howard playing Jason Collins, and how Collins flops. Then he proceeded to say something along the lines of "If you were part of the Utah Jazz, flopping is in your blood), in reference to Jason Collins somehow being known as a flopper. First off, JASON Collins never played for Utah, though his brother Jarron Collins did. Jarron is retired from the NBA. Second we get called for more fouls typically than almost anyone in the league. Seems to me we are mostly the anti-floppers (with the exception of Raja, who is still on our roster). We were nowhere near the top floppers, which could be the Spurs, Suns, Mavericks or Heat (Think Dwayne Wade, Manu Ginobli, Dirk Nowitzki, etc.). Seems to me that this unprofession jab at Utah shows his deep hatred of Utah, who used to regularly thump his Houston team. In my own opinion, that was the most unprofessional behavior I have seen on ESPN in a long time, and that says a lot. Utah was not even in the conversation at the time, he just pulled that disgusting nugget out of his rear end!
Lets get all the fans in the arena next time he is here with ESPN/TNT covering a game, and remind him why we are the best fans. Lets let this cretin never live those comments down! Anyone else with me? What do you think of this behavior and comments?
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