And this leads us back to Wednesday, when Van Gundy unloaded on president-elect Donald Trump for being "openly and brazenly racist and misogynist and ethnic-centric." His comments have been picked up nationally, with Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr likening the 2016 U.S. presidential election to that of the Jerry Springer Show. "I thought it took a lot of guts for Stan to say what he did," Kerr said.
Anyone who knows Stan Van Gundy wasn't particularly surprised by his comments Wednesday on Donald Trump. The Detroit Pistons coach considers himself attuned to the state of today's politics, and it was only a matter of time before he spoke openly about Trump, a firebrand candidate for whom he referred to as "brazenly racist and misogynist.