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Douglas Mitchell Gottlieb (born January 15, 1976) is an American basketball analyst and
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host. He played both
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collegiate basketball, twice leading the nation in assists, and professional basketball (including
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; leading the league in assists). He now works for
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and
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after tenures with
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.


College basketball career

After signing a
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with Notre Dame, Gottlieb was their starting
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during the 1995–96 college basketball season, starting all but the first four games and leading the team with 154 assists as well as steals and minutes played. Gottlieb was widely known at this time for his efficient ball-handling skills. He left Notre Dame after an incident in which he stole a classmate's credit card and used it to charge multiple purchases. Gottlieb transferred from the Notre Dame program as a result of the incident. Gottlieb transferred to
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(GWC), where he received an
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in business. Despite offers from
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, and others to transfer and sit out a season on their campus, Gottlieb chose to sit out his transfer year at Golden West College. GWC was coached by his former Tustin coach Tom McCluskey, and Gottlieb took on the role of
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player/coach. He practiced with the team and traveled to road games as the assistant coach. In addition, Gottlieb was a volunteer assistant at his high school, under Andy Ground. In one game at Santa Ana Valley, Ground was ejected, and Gottlieb coached the team to an overtime loss. Gottlieb was perceived to be waiting on
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to choose a school, as
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and
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both indicated that Gottlieb was their second choice, after Davis. After Davis chose UCLA, where Gottlieb's family had season tickets for 20 years and his brother and sister were alums (sister was captain of the cheer squad), Gottlieb looked elsewhere to play college ball. His final schools were Marquette, Georgia Tech, Alabama,
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,
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, and
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. In 1997, Gottlieb accepted an offer from Oklahoma State coach
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(under whom Gottlieb's father had once been assistant coach) to attend the university. He immediately took over as point guard for an Oklahoma State team that had gone 17–15 in consecutive years, and led the Cowboys to the NCAA tournament. During his second year with Oklahoma State, Gottlieb led the NCAA in assists, with 299, and also led the nation in assists per game, with 8.8, only the second Cowboy to lead the nation in a statistical category. He also started setting Oklahoma State assist records, breaking the school career mark with 500 (after only two seasons) and broke the school record of 22 career double-figure assist games. In a game against
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, Gottlieb set a school record and tied the
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mark with 18 assists, and in the Big 12 tournament, he set the record for assists in a game (14) as well as in tournament play (38). He led the Big 12 in games, with 34. The 1998–99 season culminated with another trip to the NCAA tournament. As a senior, Gottlieb again led the NCAA in assists, with 293, and finished second in the nation in assists per game with 8.6. He was 7th in the Big 12 in both steals, with 53, and games, with 34. Gottlieb's senior season ended with a third consecutive trip to the NCAA tournament, and the team made it all the way to the
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. In addition to being named All-Big 12 Honorable Mention his senior year at Oklahoma State, Gottlieb was named the 1999 Big 12 Scholar Athlete Community Service Athlete of the Year. Gottlieb notably entered a game with his shorts on backwards. He then took his shorts off while on the court, and put them back on correctly. He was guarded from cameras and taunting fans by a circle that his teammates formed around their embarrassed teammate. When Gottlieb became a broadcaster after his playing days ended, this incident was mentioned in a press conference by
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head coach Roy Williams. After being questioned about criticism of his program by Gottlieb, Williams responded that Gottlieb "couldn't even put his pants on the right way." Williams then said "shorts on backwards, shorts on backwards," imitating the chant that opposing fans said to Gottlieb after the incident. Gottlieb currently holds all of Oklahoma State's assist records, and ranks tenth all-time in NCAA career assists, with 947. He graduated from Oklahoma State in 2000 with a
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in marketing.


Professional basketball career

After graduating from college, Gottlieb went undrafted in the
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draft but was the No 1 pick of the
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in the 2000
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draft. Gottlieb's season with the Storm was successful, as he led the USBL in assists and helped the Storm to a 2nd-place finish in the team's inaugural season (losing to the
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in the USBL Championship Game). Gottlieb then had to take his basketball career overseas, which included a stop in
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after signing with
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. Gottlieb played internationally at the professional level in
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,
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, and Israel. The
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of the
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signed Gottlieb on November 28, 2000, prior to training camp, and then released him on December 13, two days before their opening game. On December 28, he signed with the
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of the (now defunct)
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, and played in six games (four starts) before the team released him due to Gottlieb's intent to play overseas. In February 2001, he joined
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of the
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, and helped the team win the league championship. Following Ural's season, Gottlieb traveled to Israel and won a
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as the MVP for the United States team at the 2001 Maccabiah Games. In the title game, the U.S. team defeated Israel 82–71. He then played for the
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in the
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, and then was invited to return to the Oklahoma Storm. However, he and new coach
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did not see eye-to-eye, and he was released before the season began. Following his release, Gottlieb played the 2001–02 season in Israel with the
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.


Broadcast career

In 2002, Gottlieb co-hosted a midday sports talk show on
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radio station WWLS 640 AM, known locally as "The Sports Animal". Gottlieb took the job in Oklahoma City only after securing a job to call college basketball games on ESPN and ESPN Regional. In addition, Gottlieb called Oklahoma State games for the Cowboy Basketball Network. At the end of the 2002–2003 season, Gottlieb returned to France to play for Claremont Ferrand. Upon returning stateside he worked out with the
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Summer League team and co-hosted the NBA draft on
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. Gottlieb was hired by ESPN Radio in September 2003 as co-host of ESPN Radio's ''
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. Gamenight'' was ESPN Radio's longest running show. Gottlieb's co-host was Chuck Wilson, one of the original voices of ESPN Radio. Gottlieb would also fill in on ''
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'', ''
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'' and began hosting ''The NBA Today'' on Sundays. Meanwhile, he also continued to call college basketball games on ESPN's family of networks. He also worked as a studio analyst for
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during the NCAA tournament. Gottlieb was asked by ESPN to help launch
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from
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. The fledgling network was a company priority, and based upon his age, his relationship with Mike Hall, the host, and the launch being March 3, the heart of college basketball season, Gottlieb accepted the position and stayed in Charlotte for a month. The next basketball season, Gottlieb became a mainstay on ''
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'' and as an analyst on ESPN and ESPN2 games. He caused a stir when he questioned the logic in the Big Ten's officiating crews. His segment "Point of Contention" was just that, a contentious look at previously untouchable college coaches and issues. On radio, Gottlieb would move to host '' The Pulse'' weekday evenings from 8 to 10
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before moving to afternoon drive (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. ET). He also served as a college basketball analyst for ESPNEWS and wrote for
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. Gottlieb was also a frequent guest on other
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television shows including ''College Basketball Gameday Final''. He occasionally appeared on the shows '' SportsNation'' and ''
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'' as a guest host. Gottlieb and
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basketball coach
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have traded barbs since 2005 because of Gottlieb's criticism of what he regards as Syracuse's soft nonconference schedule and Boeheim's comments regarding Gottlieb's difficulties at Notre Dame. Boeheim has discussed their feud publicly. On July 31, 2012, Gottlieb announced that he was leaving ESPN to join CBS. He served as a studio and game analyst for CBS Sports’ coverage of regular-season college basketball and joint coverage with
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of the NCAA basketball tournament. Gottlieb co-hosted a nightly television show on CBS Sports Network called ''Leadoff''. His co-host was
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, the former Miss Teen USA, who has become CBS' lead sideline reporter for college football. In addition to ''Leadoff'', ''
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'' was moved to the new
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network. Gottlieb's commentary and conversational interviewing style followed his show from ESPN Radio to CBS Sports Radio. In 2013, Gottlieb started participating in the CBS Sports Minute on CBS Radio stations throughout the country. In 2014, CBS decided to move the ''Doug Gottlieb Show'' to a TV simulcast format. Essentially canceling ''Leadoff'', Gottlieb's radio show and his longtime producer Adam Klug moved to
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, where the show was on both radio and television at 3 p.m. Eastern on weekdays. Beginning in April 2017, Gottlieb now works as a basketball analyst and radio host for Fox Sports. ''The Doug Gottlieb Show'' moved to
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. Gottlieb is also an occasional substitute host on FS1's
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, replacing original host Cowherd when he is on vacation. In June 2022, Gottlieb tweeted that
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, the sports agent for
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, did not present the
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' final offer to Freeman before he signed with the
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. Close sued Gottlieb for libel in July. In September, Gottlieb acknowledged that he was wrong, based on incorrect information that he gathered from his sources, and apologized to Close.


Coaching

Along with then-
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coach
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, Gottlieb helped coach the United States team at the
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. He coached Team USA in basketball at the
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, winning a gold medal as the USA defeated France in the final in
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. He had formerly won a gold medal at the
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as a player, but said "It is more special to win as a coach."


Honors

On June 26, 2011, Gottlieb was inducted into the
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. He is a member of the Oklahoma State University Foundation Board of Governors. In January 2016, Gottlieb became a national spokesman for the
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.


Personal life

Gottlieb is
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. He met his wife Angie, a native of
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, and fellow Oklahoma State alum, while attending Oklahoma State and has been married since August 2000. The couple has three children. In November 2014,
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, Doug's father, died of cancer. Gottlieb shared his father's death on Facebook and tens of basketball teams, high school and college, wore orange in Bob's honor. His brother Gregg is the longest tenured assistant in the
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and is currently on staff at
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. His sister Wendy, formerly worked in marketing for the
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, is currently involved in philanthropy in Northern California.


See also

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References


External links


Doug Gottlieb ESPN BioDoug Gottlieb jumps from ESPN to CBS Sports Network
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