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Stan Van Gundy’s Diet Pepsi Can

Is this the can that launched a thousand memes?

Stan Van Gundy was trying to get everything out in the open and kill the rumor mongering going on around the Magic about his and Dwight Howard’s future. So he nonchalantly let the beans spill — Yes, Dwight Howard asked the team to fire Van Gundy. Yes, Van Gundy did not have a problem with it and he just wanted to do his job.

He sipped on his Diet Pepsi as Dwight Howard came up and threw his hulking arm around the diminutive coach and asked him if everything was all right. Van Gundy nervously took a few more sips and then asked the media if they were done with him.

The trap was unintentionally set and Howard had to answer questions he was completely unprepared to answer. He played dumb like he had no idea what was going on or what had happened.

He certainly did not know Van Gundy had just outed Howard for trying to get him fired. The whole situation made Howard look foolish and was a black eye on the organization. It was a hilariously dark day for the organization.

But we enjoyed it nonetheless.

And throw in Van Gundy’s turtleneck too. No coach was as stylish, with all due respect to Chuck Daly.