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Danny Green thinks the Spurs badly misjudged their handling of Jacob Tobey.
Tobey, the television play-by-play voice of the San Antonio Spurs since 2024, was reportedly stripped of his post amid allegations of an affair with Loren Waters, sister of Spurs player Lindy Waters III. The scandal ignited after an Instagram story surfaced on Tobey’s own account, accusing him of infidelity, followed by a since-deleted photo appearing to show him with Waters.
Green tackled the fallout on his podcast, No Fouls Given, alongside Paul Pierce and Big Wos, and, by his account, Tobey handed the former sharpshooter his very first opportunity to call an NBA broadcast, and the two have since built a rapport spanning multiple live podcast appearances together.
“I know Jacob Tobey,” Green said. “He said he got my first opportunity to call a game with him. He’s actually done some live podcasts with me. He showed up. He showed love. He’s always been a really good dude in that sense.”
Green took pains to separate his objection from any wholesale critique of the franchise, framing the Spurs as an organization that has earned its reputation for discipline even as he argued this particular verdict missed the mark.
“I love everything the Spurs do and how they operate as an organization,” Green said. “They run a tight ship. They don’t deal with no BS, and they don’t like drama, so I understand certain issues. They’re going to be like, no, we can’t allow this. To me, this was not one of those issues.”
From there, Green tried to separate the sort of conduct that has genuinely derailed broadcasting careers elsewhere and the accusation now hanging over Tobey. Arrests, physical violence, DUIs — the incidents Green considers legitimate fireable offenses — stand in stark contrast, by his measure, to a private relationship gone public.
“This is not a domestic violence case,” he said. “He didn’t beat anybody up. He wasn’t loitering or DUI or anything crazy. You know he has a relationship that is behind closed doors, his personal life.”
Green then questioned the foundation the firing was built on, noting that the entire controversy sprang from a single Instagram story with no corroborating word since from Tobey, his girlfriend, or either of Waters’ siblings.
“We don’t know what the timetable of it was, if he was with this girl or not, or if he was even dating his girl at the time while he was with this girl,” Green said. “His girl could have made it up, and she hacked his social media, and she wanted to ruin his life, and you allowed that to happen. He couldn’t control how it came out. This woman did. And now you kind of gave her power by allowing that fallout to happen.”
Of course, Tobey would be far from the first media personality to face allegations of infidelity and go on to keep working. It would stand to reason, then, that his removal came down at least in part to the fact that this alleged affair involved the sister of an active player, a conflict of interest the Spurs may not have been willing to sit with regardless of how Green, Colin Cowherd, or anyone else feels about it.
“He’s a really good dude, great person,” Green said. “I thought this was a foul. I’m not happy about it, really disappointed in this decision. And I hope he lands on his feet, because he was great for his play-by-play, his energy, how he talked the game, called the game — even the playoffs. He had some really great calls, and he’s a young kid, man.”
The Spurs remain without a television home for local broadcasts next season after FanDuel Sports Network’s regional networks shuttered at the end of last season, leaving the decision on whether Tobey ever calls another Spurs game to whichever network or platform inherits those rights next.
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