{"id":33918,"date":"2022-06-02T18:44:34","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T18:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/espns-jeff-van-gundy-tests-positive-for-covid-19-mark-jones-mark-jackson-to-call-nba-finals-game-1\/"},"modified":"2022-06-02T18:44:34","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T18:44:34","slug":"espns-jeff-van-gundy-tests-positive-for-covid-19-mark-jones-mark-jackson-to-call-nba-finals-game-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/espns-jeff-van-gundy-tests-positive-for-covid-19-mark-jones-mark-jackson-to-call-nba-finals-game-1\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN&#8217;s Jeff Van Gundy tests positive for COVID-19;  Mark Jones, Mark Jackson to call NBA Finals Game 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"newsLede\">\n<p>ESPN analyst Jeff Van Gundy has tested positive for COVID-19 and will miss Game 1 of the NBA Finals, an ESPN official told <em>The Athletic<\/em> on Thursday.  Mark Jones and Mark Jackson will call Thursday&#8217;s game, which tips at 9 pm ET in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes after Hall of Fame broadcaster Mike Breen missed Game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals due to COVID-19.  Jones also filled in for Breen for that game.  Van Gundy was also on the broadcast team for the Heat-Celtics series.<\/p>\n<p>Van Gundy was scheduled to call this week&#8217;s NBA Finals for the 16th time in his career, alongside Breen, Mark Jackson and sideline reporter Lisa Salters.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Photo: Troy Taormina \/ USA Today)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n      {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n      n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n      if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n      n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n      t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n      s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n      'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n      fbq('dataProcessingOptions', []);\n      fbq('init', '207679059578897');\n      fbq('track', 'PageView');<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN analyst Jeff Van Gundy has tested positive for COVID-19 and will miss Game 1 of the NBA Finals, an ESPN official told The Athletic on Thursday. Mark Jones and Mark Jackson will call Thursday&#8217;s game, which tips at 9 pm ET in San Francisco. The news comes after Hall of Fame broadcaster Mike Breen &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/espns-jeff-van-gundy-tests-positive-for-covid-19-mark-jones-mark-jackson-to-call-nba-finals-game-1\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ESPN&#8217;s Jeff Van Gundy tests positive for COVID-19;  Mark Jones, Mark Jackson to call NBA Finals Game 1<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn-media.theathletic.com\/1etTk6qnfdOi_1etTk6qnfdOi_5ivlAmFoPYCL_original_1440x1081.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}