Commissioner David Stern responded to comments made by Stan Van Gundy by promising to take the matter up with Orlando's ownership.
“I see somebody whose team isn’t performing, whose star player was suspended, who seems to be fraying,” said Stern in an interview.
“It’s a diversionary tactic to take away from the 593 fouls without a flagrant,” one long-time league executive said of Stern’s rant on Van Gundy. “The question is: Do you have to be mean and a bully to be a commissioner? As he’s gotten older, he has become more mean-spirited, and it shows in how he deals with his own staff, coaches and with the new-age owners.”