Grant Napear, the former Sacramento Kings play-by-play announcer who was dismissed in 2020 for tweeting “All Lives Matter,” has secured a new broadcasting job nearly five years after the incident, the New York Post reported Thursday.
Napear, long known in Sacramento as both a shock-jock radio host and the television voice of the Kings, lost both roles in May 2020 after responding to a social-media question about Black Lives Matter with his now-infamous tweet. The backlash led the Kings and local station KHTK to cut ties with him within days.
Details of his new position were not immediately disclosed, but the Post noted that it marks his first full-time on-air assignment since the controversy. The 64-year-old broadcaster had been out of mainstream sports media since his firing.
Napear began calling Kings games in 1988 and served as the team’s lead TV voice for more than three decades. His return to professional broadcasting follows a prolonged period in which he remained largely absent from traditional radio and television outlets.
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The start date and exact nature of his new role have yet to be announced.
Source: New York Post
