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IF YOU DON'T LIKE THAT WITH GRANT NAPEAR

Grant's Rant: 4-11-22 Another Failed Season In Sactown

IF YOU DON'T LIKE THAT WITH GRANT NAPEAR

Grant Napear

Football, Sports, Basketball

4.7944 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

The Kings beat the Phoenix Suns in a game that basically was a scrimmage last night to win their 30th game of the season. That also means they lost 52 games this year. It translated into another failed season. Yesterday Jason Anderson of the Sacramento Bee wrote a scathing column on Kings owner Vivek Ranadive. The article was on point and reveals the toxic work environment within the Kings organization. In a word it is a mess! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's time for Grant.

0:02.0

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n ew rx plumbing dot com well the Sacramento kings and what basically was a scrimmage

0:21.3

last night against the Phoenix Suns won their

0:24.2

30th game of the season. Their season is now over. 30 wins also means you had

0:29.6

52 losses. What does that mean? It means another failed season for the Sacramento Kings,

0:36.0

another year of futility, another year of being one of the worst franchises in professional sports.

0:42.0

There's only one word and that word is embarrassing.

0:45.0

Then yesterday in the Sacramento B, Jason Anderson wrote a column and it was not very kind

0:51.0

to King's owner of Vivek Rana Divva, I want to read one paragraph from what

0:55.0

Jason wrote.

0:56.0

All right?

0:57.0

The source described a toxic work environment in which people don't trust each other and they are thirsty to get any advantage or any promotion

1:05.8

they can.

1:06.8

He borrowed a line from former Kingsford-Rudigay saying, quote, it's basketball, hell. I would concur with that. It is basketball hell. It is a

1:16.8

toxic work environment. Here's the bottom line. Just about everyone within the

1:21.6

organization really has no respect for Rana d'Ive.

1:26.0

And the reason is they all understand that he has no idea what he is doing as an owner of a professional sports franchise.

1:34.0

He does metal.

1:35.4

He is a very difficult individual to convince, to do things differently.

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