The story of the day and best thing for the team was to cover the win and the crowd Because the team and grant, who is probably out of work when the kings leave and don changes the format, wanted a ton of good a arena press bitched about TNT all show instead. carmichael dave did some of the same, going as far to say webb is the reason michigan doesnt have its banners while covering his errors on tv
then grant and webb get into it. grant doesnt put the fire out. lets his mouth breathing callers kill webb. then webb and grant retweet posts and keep this going.
grant took the joy out of last night, tried to call out and embarrass an icon, pissed off said icon, and then escalated the issue because he was hacked off. killed a lot of momentum for some fans.
The win against a very good team on national TV spoke for itself. Grant doesn't need to go on and on about the win when there are bigger stories to cover.
And the major-league screw-up by TNT is a bigger story. The arena situation is the biggest issue right now. Time-wise, this thing is coming down to a nail-biter. The last vote was 5-4. If this gets shot down at any point in the City Council, bye-bye Kings no matter how many games they win on national TV.
I arrived home shortly after Chris hung up, so I didn't listen to the callers and really don't care. This isn't about the callers, or twitter, or anything else. This is about how a national broadcast team, covering an issue they should have been prepared for, totally blew it and insulted our mayor and the city in the process.
I am discussing the one incident, Webber's call to the show. He handled it poorly. And if he hadn't, none of the rest of this would be going on.
If he had just said:
"Hey Grant, I was going off the information my TNT crew gave me, I'm sorry it wasn't correct, I apologize on behalf of the TNT crew for the mistake. On my next TNT broadcast I will apologize to KJ, the city and the fans."
The issue would have been over and everyone goes home happy.
Instead, he gets his knickers in a twist, won't let the host get a word in at all even though he was trying to back off a little, won't listen for the facts like he asked for, won't answer the question, and looks like a fool when he's all done. And it was all totally in Webber's hands to make this a good interview or a bad one. Grant didn't call him names or anything else, he just asked how the whole TNT crew screwed up such an important discussion on the only national Kings broadcast.
If you don't have your facts straight, and if you don't know what's going on, then don't ask the question or talk about the topic on a national broadcast. DO NOT throw an ex-NBA star player who is now the mayor under the bus when he corrects your reporter when she screws up the story. That is just low class and bad journalism.
And I disagree with RotD, as these guys are not just entertainers. The national audience gets lots of NBA-related info from shows like this. They were at least pretending to try to address the issue. It wasn't like KJ brought it up in his interview and caught them unaware. THEY broached the topic and chose to devote so much time to it. That is on TNT to correct.