Grant Napear: Loose Cannon or Management's Mouthpiece

But I don’t think Peaches is on the inside of anything for the organization. Would you have him in your inner circle?

 Well thought out without a huge leap here. I believe that Grant may have been asked to pave the way for Martin’s exit as well. It’s really hard to sell a community like Sacramento that their favorite son is no longer a piece of the future. By using Grant and his brash nature, the Kings let the people know that there was a lot more going on than they were privy to. The thing with Grant is that he is such a colossal tool that the obsessive fans like us just hate him and tune him out after the first minute or two but he has a ripple effect even among us. His tirades become morsels of food for discussion. Even if we want to avoid his particular point of view, I believe that we allowed ourselves to be prepared for Kevin Martin leaving us because no matter how moronic Napes seemed, the idea was put out there in a distorted sort of way.

I will take another smaller leap as well. I was missing this last week (Vegas trip) so maybe this was already covered but I believe that Napier taking the side of Sam Amick on Friday was a mean and nasty trick to further the rift within the Bee between Amick and Bradley. By pushing the story on the radio, Napier was looking to hang Amick out to dry- sort of a back handed compliment/instigation kind of way. I’m sure Grant is the las guy Sam wants taking up for him.

We have seen through the Kevin Mart/T-Mac/Landry transaction that agents play a huge role in the NBA game. T-Macs dude wanted his player to be in NY “or else”, Martin’s agent wanted his dude (Rubio) to be in Sac and when he didn’t get his way, he started spreading the good word to his media henchmen that Evans and Martin were a bad fit. I think the Kings very well could have used Napier to prepare the fans for an eventual Martin departure in the same way that the player’s agents have flexed their muscles in this situation. The Kings know that Napier and the Bee have a contentious relationship at best. So, unless someone is live steaming Grant and Mike to get the scoop on Kevin Martin, the voice of the Scarlett Douche reaches the Sacramento and surrounding area but dies there. The voice of the Bee on the other hand, stretches out through the WWW but is void of any real mention of Napes because they don’t waste their time on the guy. In effect, Napier is the perfect town crier- a guy who won’t give any real info but who can give a scathing review from a loud but narrow windowed pulpit.

I’m buying your conspiracy theory R-Man.

(Grant Napear) rather than being a loose cannon, harping on Kevin’s shortcomings, he may simply have echoed what he heard within the organization, which unfortunately hastened Kevin’s exit.

and I want to roll out such a devious plan, I’m going to enlist someone a little smarter than Peaches. But Napes as an unwitting accomplice? That could have some traction.

Anyone who knows me knows that I don’t talk about Dan Fegan. I hate his ass. Hate everything he does despite he has the right to do it. He attracts clients, and he gets them money.

You remember this fanshot awhile ago by TZ? Kevin decided, after a year, of going with Fegan after not having an agent. That would give something that Peaches said credence.

The point here is this: The Kings made a trade revolving a long time player in Martin (who is popular) and they did so probably without Fegan in mind. Fegan is just grinding the axes a little because that’s what he does.

Why Kings management would use Peaches to advance any anti-Fegan agenda is beyond me. Nobody likes Fegan to begin with. NOBODY. Peaches is just probably taking the occasion to rip the Bee for ignoring what happened with Fegan (because that’s what Peaches does—he accuses others of double standards without applying the reality to himself) and then acts like Sam is a party with a grievance.

The best thing that the Kings could do is fire Napear, but they won’t. Why? My theory is? Because Napear distracts the attention from Petrie & the front office by being a lowbrow loudmouth Peachtard. They use it to their advantage and they’re skilled at it.

Make no mistake though: I have never believed that the trade had anything to do with Kevin Martin’s agent Dan Fegan. Dan Fegan ran his mouth in exit because that’s what he does. In the past the Kings have had good relationships with agents, and always try to remain that way. But, as I say, nobody has a good relationship with Fegan unless they are players like Shawn Marion and Anderson Varejao who are getting way too much money in relation to what they’re worth. Even agents don’t like Dan Fegan.

So, why go into all that? Because Peaches know his listeners don’t know all that, and the whole story isn’t available. So StR, I plead you, don’t fall into the Peaches trap of giving him ANY power. He has none. Let’s keep it that way okay?

I have been thinking along these lines for a while now. It seems like Napear really went after Martin and if they hadn’t wanted him to do that then he probably wouldn’t have got away with it. Somebody would have muzzled him.

The thing was that it sounds like there may be been multiple people spinning the story. The Kings through Napear as well as Martin’s agent. The shit storm just got too big and too out of control way too fast.

The take away for me is that I believe that the Kings planned on letting go of KMart a long time ago. I think that what Petrie said was true about not being inclined to trade him until they got Evans. Either at that point or shortly after breaking his wrist, IMO, they decided he would go.

I think Napear played a role in this whole process and that he isn’t just some loose cannon. They use him to hock tickets and put out their media spin.

theres not much anyone can do about the issue.. if they were gonna do something it woulda been done a LOOOOONGGG time ago. Trade Grant for some draft picks I say, 2nd rounder! I’ll throw in Jer too if we can land a 1st round pick. In all seriousness though, I missed the boat on the Peaches T shirts. Two of my buddies got one. Whats the going rate for the now blackmarketed t shirts?

I don’t think that Grant is a spokesman for the Kings management. His comments during games are fairly mild and promote the team, which is what he is supposed to do. I do agree his radio show comments are many times inflammatory and highly prejudiced. His caveat is the “in my opinion” statement preceding his attack. That said, his opinion does get ratings which allows him to continue.

I think Grant’s radio comments are a mixture of what he picks up hanging around the team, what other media are reporting, and him having an (often negative) opinion on what he thinks the team needs. I don’t think the management provides him talking points.

Grant and the Sacramento Bee have been in a dispute for a long time. The Bee pulled there advertising over remarks that he made about the paper. This Amick story was just another thing that Grant could shove in there face. I was listening during his rant and he was so excited to condemn the Bee he was nearly beside himself.

I guess what I am saying is that while I enjoyed reading your conspiracy theory, I think in the end it was just Grant being Grant.

Look in the mirror Grant. You just don’t make a statement like that about someone you have to work with. Grant somehow needs to have an ongoing feud with at least one King’s player at all times. Remember OP? Chris wouldn’t give Grant the time of day. He called Bobby Jackson into question and had to backtrack on that because of Bobby’s popularity, he drove RonRon out of town. He never misses a chance to take a pot shot even years later. At the same time he’s constantly praising guys like Pollard or JB that he’s buddy buddy with. Remember how he used to bag on Jim Rome? And now he’s subbing for him and kissing his ASS.