Bad Company Man Jeff Van Gundy Brings Up Augusta's Discrimination

Beginning tomorrow, ESPN will broadcast the first two rounds of the Masters at Augusta National Golf Club, so during tonight’s NBA contest they ran a little promo for it. Unfortunately for ESPN and the Masters, play-by-play man Mike Breen went off-script and imagined a world in which Jeff Van Gundy was calling the Masters. And because Jeff Van Gundy just doesn’t give a shit, he didn’t need any more of an opening to launch a few quips about Augusta National’s long history of racism and sexism:

Van Gundy: Oh, like they didn’t allow black people and women in there? Something like that? ... Yeah, I’m glad we’re quiet about that. But anyway, how about Jack Nicklaus making a hole-in-one today in the par three tournament.

Mark Jackson: (laughing) You can’t go from blacks and women to Jack getting a hole-in-one.

Van Gundy: Well I’m going to say it. Would I have been wrong, like, maybe pointing that out, that there’s something wrong with that?

[ The Big Lead]

Photo via Matt Slocum/AP

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