{"id":340758,"date":"2026-06-01T00:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T00:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/340758\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T00:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T00:16:09","slug":"former-kings-announcer-stands-by-all-lives-matter-remark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/340758\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Kings announcer stands by \u2018ALL LIVES MATTER\u2019 remark"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Sacramento Kings play-by-play announcer Grant Napear took to social media Sunday to reiterate a controversial message on the six-year anniversary of the infamous tweet that cost him his television and radio jobs.<\/p>\n

In his original tweet on May 31, 2020, Napear responded to a question from former Kings center DeMarcus Cousins, who asked Napear for his thoughts on the Black Lives Matter movement after George Floyd was murdered by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.<\/p>\n

Napear replied: \u201cHey!!!! How are you? Thought you forgot about me. Haven\u2019t heard from you in years. ALL LIVES MATTER…EVERY SINGLE ONE!!!\u201d<\/p>\n

Former Kings players Chris Webber and Matt Barnes joined the discussion, posting comments that painted Napear as a \u201cclown\u201d and a \u201ccloset racist.\u201d Amid the fallout, Napear was fired by Bonneville International Corporation, the parent company of Sactown Sports 1140, and resigned from his television job with the Kings.<\/p>\n

Napear maintains that his words were not offensive and he did not know they would be perceived as racially insensitive. He reasserted that position Sunday when he quote-tweeted his original remarks, writing: \u201c6 years ago today. Are there really still people that don\u2019t agree with this? I haven\u2019t found many!\u201d<\/p>\n

A federal judge dismissed Napear\u2019s wrongful termination suit against Bonneville in April 2025. Napear returned to Sacramento\u2019s airwaves in September when Fox Sports KSAC hired him to host \u201cThe Grant Napear Show,\u201d but the show was abruptly canceled on May 4. Napear said he will host his podcast Monday through Friday on YouTube and X.<\/p>\n

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Jason Anderson has been the Sacramento Kings beat writer for The Sacramento Bee since 2018. He is a Sacramento native who is proud to provide coverage that is as passionate and dedicated as the loyal Kings fan base.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Sacramento Kings play-by-play announcer Grant Napear took to social media Sunday to reiterate a controversial message on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-340758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340758","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=340758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}