Episode 277: My First NBA Opener

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Grant Napear

Football, Basketball, Sports

4.7 • 944 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Tonight begins the 2023-24 NBA season. The Kings play their opener tomorrow night in Salt Lake City. On today's episode I reflect back to my first ever NBA broadcast in November of 1988. The site was Portland, Oregon and little did I know that would be the start of 32 years of calling Kings games. I reflect on one of the most amazing phone calls I've ever received. The King's previous TV announcer. Tom Curran, called me in my hotel to wish me luck. That was such a classy gesture by Tom, something I have never forgotten. The Kings lost badly to the Blazers that night, but it didn't matter to me. I was living a dream to be announcing NBA basketball! I then talk about my last time in an NBA arena, March of 2020 and the start of the pandemic. I conclude by giving my thoughts on this year's Kings squad. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	And now Grand Napier! And how can you can everybody?
0:17.5	And how can everybody?
0:19.7	Welcome to opening night of the NBA
0:21.7	and for the Kings, their opening night is tomorrow in
0:24.5	Salt Lake City. Opening nights I was blessed to do a lot of them but the most
0:30.3	special was back in Portland.
0:35.0	I'm going to reflect back on that.
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1:08.2	standing on an n b a court in November of 1988,
1:15.0	was just unbelievable to me,
1:16.9	considering that I had come from a very tiny,
1:21.1	unknown TV station, for the most part part in Decatur, Illinois.
1:25.0	Three years in Decatur from 84 to 87 and I was on my way to California in my Subaru hatch pack July hottest heat wave of the summer.
1:39.4	No air conditioning and I'll never forget arriving in Sacramento and despite it being 110
1:45.2	when I arrived at the Wood Lake Inn off Highway 160, I would be the only person that
1:50.4	decided I was going to eat outside under the palm trees.
1:53.8	No one was going to go outside except for me because, well,
1:57.1	when you grow up on Long Island and you live in Illinois and you go to college and Bowling Green,
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