| By Ben Kaplan and Danny Parkins Stan Van Gundy remembers receiving the phone call from Orlando Magic general manager Otis Smith that fateful morning in the summer of 2011. “You’re on SportsCenter,” Smith told Van Gundy, the Magic head coach. “I don’t know how the hell they got it.” In the video, the mustachioed Van Gundy, wearing glasses, a long-sleeved gray shirt, and some striped blue shorts, calls for a ball. While encouraging campers to experiment with different dribbling combinations, he walks on to the empty court and unleashes a through-the-legs-behind-the-back combo followed by a crisp spin move and between the legs crossover. People in the audience gasp. Bloggers and the nascent NBA Twitter community swarmed to the 15-second clip like ants on a dropped lollipop. The spirit behind the video’s viral popularity made it abundantly clear: nobody expected the 50-some-odd-year-old coach to have handles like that. “People look at me: short, fat guy coaching, and just assume I could never do anything,” Van Gundy said. “The bar was low. So the fact that you can get the ball from one hand to the other, people were even surprised by that.” Stan’s younger brother, Jeff, also a former NBA coach, claims to have shared his brother’s ability to dazzle on the court — as long as nobody was actually guarding him. “When I was doing individual workouts, I could beat the cones on the court off the dribble every time,” Jeff told Dan Patrick for a 2015 column in Sports Illustrated. “It was those darn other players that got in the way of my greatness.” Self-deprecating comments aside, the Van Gundy brothers were once accomplished collegiate players. Stan, who originally committed to Division II UC-Davis, had a change of heart when his dad took the head coaching job at Brockport State, a Division III public college just outside of Rochester, New York. With his parents and brother set to move from their Bay Area home, Stan decided at the last minute to tag along and enroll at Brockport State. Since his dad was the coach, he knew two things — he would have a spot on the team, and the coach would be really tough on him. Standing just 5’7” and rail thin, Stan never missed a single game in his four years at Brockport St. He didn’t shoot much, but when he did... | 