This is exactly what ESPN was hoping to avoid.

Two days after “NBA Countdown” anchor Sage Steele posted a complaint on Instagram about being inconvenienced by protesters at Los Angeles International Airport, radio host Dan Le Batard let loose on his fellow ESPN personality.

Le Batard, who is of Cuban heritage, went on his ESPN radio show Monday and ripped into Steele, calling her comments “the height of privilege.”

“I, as the son of exiles, look at this, and I’m like, ‘What the hell are you talking about? Your travel plans were affected? What are you talking about?’ ” Le Batard said. “It’s the height of privilege. And so once you start opening that portal, you get ESPN-on-ESPN crime.”

Steele’s controversial post was a picture of the crowds gathered outside LAX to protest President Donald Trump’s travel ban on people from seven predominantly Muslim countries. It was accompanied by a caption that began: “So THIS is why thousands of us dragged luggage nearly 2 miles to get to LAX, but still missed our flights.”

Steele later went on Twitter to defend herself, saying it was “just her opinion” and that there are “more effective ways” to protest.

Le Batard, referencing an ESPN policy memo on how to talk (and not talk) about the travel ban, claimed Steele’s comments “[open] the floodgates for the rest of us.”

“The genie’s out of the bottle on this because we all have our own Twitter accounts, and we all have our social media on this, and this is what ESPN is trying to prevent,” Le Batard said, adding later, “You get all this stuff that ESPN doesn’t want to have.”