Grant Napear is no longer the Sacramento Kings play-by-play announcer or a local California radio host after he tweeted “All Lives Matter” in response to a question about the Black Lives Matter movement.
Sports 1140 KHTK and the NBA team announced Tuesday that Napear was out of both gigs, the Sacramento Bee reported.
KHTK’s parent company said in a statement that Napear’s Sunday evening tweet was “particularly insensitive” amid the ongoing national unrest sparked by the death of George Floyd, a Black man who was killed when a white police officer dug a knee into his neck for nearly nine minutes.
The longtime Sacramento media figure landed in hot water Sunday when former Kings star DeMarcus Cousins tweeted out to Napear for his take on Black Lives Matter.
What happened next indicated some previous tension between Napear and Black players.