Jim Gray Replaces Kayte Christensen on Kings Broadcasts

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What a terribly disappointing announcement.

NOOO!!!!!!!!

How the mighty have fallen. He was interviewing Mike Tyson after fighting Lennox Lewis, now he’s working 20 home games for the Kings. Tough times for Jim Gray.

No, not April 1st.

Damn, this sucks. Jim Gray is so freaking unbelievably bland.

And I thought Kayte improved as a sideline reporter, but she was much better on the halftime show and on the radio IMO. Still, a great deal better than her predecessor.

but she was, in my opinion, a legitimately talented reporter and analyst.

That too. Actually I do agree with you Ziller. Good luck to her, maybe she can become the next Doris Burke who I have always liked.

Terrible start to the offseason. Fire Petrie!! Fire Petrie!!

That’s all

I hope it’s because she found a better gig. Good luck to you Kayte.

Pete Rose is one of the least sympathetic figures in sports history, and Gray actually made people feel sorry for him.

Enjoy working with Peaches, you dung beetle.

Best of luck to you Kayte, I think you have legit broadcasting chops, and really know the game.

And I wasn’t all that fond of her sideline reporting myself. But, still, I thought she should have had more than a season to actually show her stuff.

I would be really surprised if it wasn’t the latter.

If Gray is only doing 20 home games, who is going to do the rest of the games? Noone?

What. the. fak.

But perhaps there is a small silver lining to this dark cloud.

Could it be that they are grooming a replacement for our current play-by-play announcer?

Kayte was good…. But I like the fact that Gray will be on the sidelines reporting…..

Maybe I’m alone in this belief, but I see it as an upgrade. Although, not in “the looks” category-

Tell me this is part of the line up for next season’s Tool Academy…..and not the new King’s broadcast booth!!!

All we need is Renell to do Kings Dance Team features and JT The Brick to run pre and postgame.

maybe next their will replace Peaches??

A guy can dream, can’t he?

Every game will be explosive!

She is hot as hell, the smile, hair, and bod are all kickin’, but that is only really half of what makes her so attractive. She is really into the game and has a serious BB IQ. She can tell you what is up and why.

I really hope they don’t go back to those other women, for the other 21 games, who really don’t know anything about basketball. That’s screwed up…

Called it Peaches N’ Herb

Pure and simple.

Man…
I am so Bummed, Double Whammy… no Kayte, and to hear that Jim Gray will be Associated to the Kings.

I feel like going Chad Curtis… and tell Jim Gray to Quit.. I hate you hate you hate you. You Suck Ballz, and missed your calling as a toilet Seat.

This Sucks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgecPysuGB4

I think he’s on a short leash.

Bewbs –

Boob –

My god, this just killed my weekend. Ponderous, truly ponderous. I wish I did drugs right now.

With that said, what is Jim Gray’s name? The douche pear.

Why are there so many haters on this board? Give him a friggin break!

Jim Gray has that kind of that lovable dweeb factor about him. And he takes sports seriously and is always thoroughly prepared. He hunts down stories with relentlessness, has great interview skills, and knows his facts. Why would anyone be opposed to that? Better than the slack-ass Kings beat reporter.

And didn’t Jim Gray almost get his ass kicked by Mike Tyson a long while back? I got to give him due respect for that!

As far as Kayte C. I will miss her and her hotness but I think she probably was graded down in her performance because some of her sideline reporting came off as a little bit stiff. She always said intelligible things, I don’t doubt her knowledge in the least, but her delivery was lacking.

I think Gray could be more versatile too. I can envision Jim Gray as a future replacement for Peaches. Has Gray ever down play-by-play? I am not sure. But let the guy get a little seasoning and get to know the team, then show Peaches the door so he can concentrate full time on converting one of his rooms into a Tyreke shrinatorium.

Kayte was an asset to the Kings org. She was a very good analyst on the radio and a work in progress at sideline. You could tell she liked her job and enjoyed giving her insight. I’d always see her going to the huddle at every time out to probably learn more about what the team was running and use that for her analysis. I appreciated that.

I don’t like this move for mostly one more thing that I think no one has mentioned: getting some like Jim Gray, it’s like going “Hollywood.” It’s just a sideline reporter, but he’s a well known one that has been in the national eye for a long time. I don’t care about that. I’d rather keep the Kings, a local institution. I don’t feel the need to make headlines because we hired some experienced reporter. I liked the fact that we ‘discovered’ Kayte and probably helped her get one step closer to the national stage.

I feel like it’s a move done for publicity and it kinda moves the organization from an identity that at least I would love to keep. At the end of the day, what matters are the players, the coaching staff, and the people making the personnel decisions, but that doesn’t matter the other members or the org weren’t part of the ‘family.’

Good luck to Kayte, she has a bright future (and she’s damn fine!)

We finally get a product that isn’t ugly on court and they make it totally hideous on the sidelines.

Karma does not mean you get to punish us sighted people!

who noticed she couldnt spit out a sentence if her life depended on it? Sure she was hot but she could not speak, she struggled over the easiest of sentences. Good riddance regardless of her replacement’s views on Kobe.

At least we got Landry back in that deal.

I never liked the guy to begin with, but ever since i saw him interview Pete Rose i wrote him off. I dont care what Pete Rose did in his career (im too young to have seen it first hand, but i respect his talent and not his faults) but no one deserved to have that sort of interview on that night on “his day”. I havent held the channel for Jim Grey ever since, i have no respect for the guy, hes a douche. I guess ill be changing the channel periodically for 20 of the Kings games next season. I bleed purple and black, but i wont keep the a channel on with that tard on the air. Sad day for Kings media relations… Jim has no business being on the air, hes not a professional, hes just a douche,,,

with Chinese broadcasters.

to masturbate at halftime?

In all seriousness though. Like many of you I just can’t see the logic behind this. He has to be more expensive, we are getting the sideline reports for less games, and we are still stuck with everything else we have. The only person I would like to see stay is Gary Gerald and Fat, Grant and Jerry can take their act somewhere else.

I actually liked Grant up until last seasons “I’mtyrekefanboinumber1.com” performance that he gave us.

Best of luck in your future Kayte.

But I don’t think she was that great as a sideline reporter. She was improving, for sure, and she wasn’t bad by any stretch of the imagination. It’s a shame she won’t be back.

Though I have to wonder how many of her fans liked her for reasons not related to her looks…haha. She’s gorgeous, obviously, but I hope you guys liked her for other reasons too :-P

Maybe Jim Gray is going to replace one of your (not so) favorite announcers soon?

And my Monday just got exponentially worse. I understood when Kara Lawson moved on to ESPN. Not quite the eye candy, but like Kayte, had a solid analysis of the game. Then they had the Christina debacle, the girl who couldn’t spit her lines out despite all of the public speaking coaching the Maloofs invested in her. Then they find Kayte, who was well respected in the media and by fans, and they dump her for Jim Gray!? Maloofs, this will end badly for you, I’m counting on it because I now hate you….

Maybe Jenn, the Royal Court Dance Team dancer and “Manager”, who does some pregame and in-game media stuff now, will start transitioning to a more prominent role in the broadcast team, like doing the sideline reporting for the games that Jim Gray is not doing. Then next year Gray can take over for Peaches, and Jenn can take over full-time for the sideline stuff.

FYI, for those that don’t know, this is Jenn: