Five years after he was fired by his radio station and resigned as the Play-by-Play broadcaster of the Kings, Grant Napear is back on the air waves of Sacramento.
The exiled broadcaster announced on Wednesday that from 2 September he would take over the WEKDAY NIGHTS at the local station of FOX Sports in the capital of California, as a result of which he marked his return to the city that he called home for more than three decades.
“I am competitive. I am not only coming back to Sacramento. I am coming back to win,” Napear said on his YouTube show on Wednesday. ‘I’m going to do it [Fox Sports Sacramento] On the map. I want people to know that I don’t do this because I am desperate. I do this because I want to do it. It has been a void in my life. There is nothing above the community of Sacramento. ‘
Napear, graduated from Syosset High School on Long Island, was canned after 32 years by KHTK 1140 with the station after tweet “All Lives Matter … each!” In June 2020 in response to former Kings star Demarcus Cousins, who asked for his vision of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Shortly thereafter, Napear resigned as the head television broadcaster of the Kings, a role in which he was since 1988.
The back and forth with cousins came in the middle of the George Floyd protests and received an important recoil in Sacramento and the sports world outside, including other former Kings players such as Chris Webber and Matt Barnes.
Others, such as colleague radio personality Chris Russo, stopped for Napear in the aftermath.
Bonneville International, the parent company of KHTK, said: “The timing of Grant’s tweet was particularly insensitive” after his resignation.
At the time, Napear told the Sacramento Bee that he “was not as trained on BLM as I thought. I had no idea that when I said” all parts of the life “it was contrary to what BLM tried to come across.”
In an interview with The Post on Thursday, Napear said that he has little regrets for the controversial social media post that placed his employment career in slides.
“I became entangled by being politically incorrect in a very turbulent time,” said Napear. “I understand that, but I stay on what I believe in. That’s how I was brought up and I still believe that” all lives matter “and I am not ashamed to say it.”
Napear said he has received ‘hundreds and hundreds and hundreds’ congratulations since he announced the news less than 24 hours ago.
Given his history, which included many run-ins with fans and players, even before his remark “All Lives Matter”, he will undoubtedly have his critics, but that is far from the pronounced Napear’s spirit.
“Joe Buck has people who don’t like him,” said Napear Thursday. “Jim Nantz has people who don’t like him. I am not worried about that. I am not worried about people who don’t care about my work or don’t want to go back. I don’t care. I care about my supporters and the people who have been with me by fat and thin.”
Nevertheless, Napear comes in his new job another person and says in a press release: “I listened to, I learned and I grew” in the half decade away from the microphone.
Napear, who has organized his own YouTube show and podcast in recent years, said he was in the clouds to get started.
“I can’t wait for September 2,” he said. “If you asked me six months ago, nine months ago, a year or two years ago, I never thought this was possible,” he said.
Napear said that the new program will be just like his titllless show that was broadcast before his shooting in 2020, talking about the kings, NFL and “Whatever [his] Callers want to go into. “
“It will be exactly the same,” he said. “I’m going to accept phone calls. I’m going to have guests. I get stubborn.”
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