And here we go, Grant Napier on Listen App, how are you doing this afternoon?

If you're on the west coast or early this evening on the east coast, it is great to have you here.

Always love taking your phone calls.

You know how it works.

You hit your hand icon, raise your hand, and we will get right on another embarrassing loss for the Sacramento Kings last night as they are now 14 games under 500 and they are right near the basement of the Western Conference

and have turned into one of the worst teams in the NBA. I'm going to spend

my podcast tomorrow talking about this and I'm also going to let you listen to a

video that De Aaron Fox made on the Players Tribune back in 2018. I want you to listen once again to this

video and then let me know if that's what you're getting as a fan of the Sacramento King.

So, you know, that's something that I'm gonna talk about

on my podcast tomorrow.

I'm also gonna talk about a story that's been going around the

internet about the King's TV announcer Mark Jones and of course at ESPN for his just ridiculous absurd callous tweets on social media.

So we're going to do that tomorrow on my podcast.

Today we got Ben Rothersberger announcing that he's done after 18 years. We can still follow up on the Hall of Fame vote in baseball. We can look ahead to Sunday's games. We got all of that plus your phone calls. All you need to do is raise your hand and once you do,

I will put you up on stage with me and you can come on. It's really that simple. Just like Eli now. Eli, I'm going to let you get in early here, man. I appreciate you hitting that little hand icon. What can I do for you?

Hey Grant, how are you doing, man? Good, how are you? Good. I've been a big fan for many years. I'll never forget you gave me free tickets to a game eight years ago when I called on college your show so thanks so much for that.

My pleasure. I'm very happy to do it. So yeah, no problem, so I got a two-part question for you actually.

So first part of my question is when you broadcasted for the Kings, to what extent did you feel like

maybe you knew things deep down weren't going well

but your job kind of forced you to kind of sweeten the way things were going to make it

maybe sound like it was better than it was did you feel like you had to do that?

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