All right.

There we are.

Grant Napier with you here on Listen Up.

I had a little trouble logging on today, but we are here.

We got a lot to talk about.

I hope you had a great weekend.

We got the Masters and oh yeah, we got the Sacramento Kings.

Alvin Gentry is out.

The coaching search has begun.

You got the scathing column yesterday

by Jason Anderson and the Sacramento Bee

as it relates to Vervecronadee dee.

There is nothing in that column that I had an issue with,

although I do disagree with the one minority owner's assessment of what's going on,

I know the minority owner that was quoted in the story and I do not agree with him.

I think he is off base, but that's not really the crux of the article.

The crux of the article was that Jason Anderson had a source that was a former member of

the team's basketball operation staff and that person said, quote, I've been on conference calls with him around the

trade deadline I think like any successful business or organization a lot of this

stuff starts at the top in an ideal situation you hire someone you feel is

qualified, you do your homework on them and then you trust that person is

capable of doing the job. It's one thing to be a fan and want to be involved from afar but I think when you the to involve the source the source described a toxic work environment in which people don't

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