{"id":789838,"date":"2026-07-09T19:41:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T19:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/789838\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T19:41:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T19:41:14","slug":"nba-announcer-allegedly-fired-over-affair-with-ex-dubs-players-sister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/789838\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA announcer allegedly fired over affair with ex-Dubs player&#8217;s sister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Spurs have fired former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/valkyries\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Golden State\u00a0Valkyries<\/a> broadcaster Jacob Tobey as their lead play-by-play announcer after an affair he allegedly had with the sister of former Warriors player\u00a0Lindy Waters III, who played in San Antonio last season, according to a report published Thursday <a href=\"https:\/\/frontofficesports.com\/jacob-tobey-out-spurs-announcer-affair-allegation\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in Front Office Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tobey called games for the Valkyries on CBS Bay Area (KPIX-TV)\u00a0during their inaugural season in 2025 but did not return to the broadcast this season \u2014 Jordan Kent currently serves in the role. He has been the play-by-play man in the Spurs\u2019 booth since 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The news, which is attributed to FOS reporter\u00a0Ryan Glasspiegel\u2019s anonymous sources, comes after a week in which the broadcaster went viral for <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WembyAlienEra\/status\/2074409402732564695?s=20\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\">posts shared on his Instagram account<\/a> that <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WembyAlienEra\/status\/2074440106715586850?s=20\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\">accused him of cheating<\/a> on his girlfriend with Loren Waters. Her brother is Lindy Waters III,\u00a0who played 38 games for the Warriors in the 2024-25 season before Golden State sent him\u00a0to Detroit as part of the multi-team Jimmy Butler trade. The five-year NBA veteran played for the Spurs last season and is currently a free agent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is my girlfriend of six years,\u201d one post read. \u201c@lorenkwaters But I cheated on her with Loren Waters. So feel free to continue following me if you really think I\u2019m a good guy because I\u2019m not. :)\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tobey\u2019s ex-girlfriend later revealed that she was the one who made those posts on his Instagram, which have since been deleted. The former San Antonio broadcaster made his social media accounts private in the days since.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Spurs have fired former Golden State\u00a0Valkyries broadcaster Jacob Tobey as their lead play-by-play announcer after an affair&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":789839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,288679,85],"class_list":["post-789838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sfgsports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=789838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}