{"id":264148,"date":"2026-04-12T16:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T16:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/264148\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T16:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T16:21:08","slug":"mark-jones-to-keep-calling-sacramento-kings-games-after-ending-run-at-espn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/264148\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Jones to keep calling Sacramento Kings games after ending run at ESPN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-media \">Kings TV play-by-play voice Mark Jones is not \u201cleaving Sacramento\u201d despite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/04\/10\/report-play-by-play-voice-mark-jones-leaving-espn\/?issueId=PF6DSIGPARBQJEPOHGEWMESEYI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">his 36-year run as an announcer on ESPN coming to an end<\/a> this weekend. Jones said that he \u201cwill return next season\u201d as the primary TV voice of the Kings on NBC Sports California, a job he has held since 2020. Jones said, \u201cMy plan is to be here for a long, long time.\u201d He will call his final game for ESPN on Sunday with Magic-Celtics at 6pm ET. Jones could not \u201ccomment when asked if he will call Kings games on a full-time basis next season\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/sports\/nba\/sacramento-kings\/article315373236.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SACRAMENTO BEE, 4\/11<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-media \">Meanwhile, the Kings on Friday announced \u201cplans to honor\u201d radio play-by-play voice Gary Gerould\u2019s legacy as he completes his 41st season in the booth. The media dining and workspace at Golden 1 Center \u201cwill be named the Gary \u2018G-Man\u2019 Gerould Media Center next season\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/sports\/nba\/sacramento-kings\/article315375146.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SACRAMENTO BEE, 4\/11<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kings TV play-by-play voice Mark Jones is not \u201cleaving Sacramento\u201d despite his 36-year run as an announcer on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[2454,129,121,123,122],"class_list":["post-264148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-basketball","tag-nba","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}