I love Howard Stern, but he might want to retract his comments on Jeff Van Gundy, whom he called “a midget” and a “douchebag.”
Stern — a lover, not a fighter — has never won a brawl since he was regularly getting his butt kicked as a kid in Roosevelt, LI.
Van Gundy, the former Knicks coach now broadcasting for ESPN, started it when he criticized Stern for leaving his courtside seat for a Knicks-Nets game at the Garden before the final buzzer, even though the Knicks had a 27-point lead.
Stern, who gets up at 4 a.m., responded on his SiriusXM show: “Say it to my f - - king face. Next time I’m at the Knicks game, you can come up to me and talk to me about it and I’ll explain it to you, you midget.”
Van Gundy, who is listed as 5-foot-9, was a hard-nosed All American point guard who led Nazareth College to the NCAA tournament in 1984.
Stern is 6-foot-5 but not an athlete. In the ’90s, he played one-on-one basketball against E Street Band guitarist Nils Lofgren, who is 5-foot-4. Howard was beaten like a rented mule.
Let’s hope, for Stern’s sake, it doesn’t get physical.