Fresh off a trip to the NBA Finals, the San Antonio Spurs will have a new play-by-play announcer following allegations of cheating made against him on social media.
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Jacob Tobey has been dismissed as the team's announcer after his girlfriend accused him on social media of cheating with a relative of a Spurs player, per Ryan Glasspiegel of Front Office Sports.
Earlier this week, Tobey's girlfriend posted on his Instagram story in the middle of the night that he had had the affair. The post went viral across multiple social media platforms.
"This is my girlfriend of six years," the post read. "But I cheated on her with Loren Waters. So feel free to continue following me if you really think I'm a good guy because I'm not. :)"
The Instagram Story was followed by another that displayed what appeared to be photo booth prints of Tobey and Loren Waters kissing.
"Me and the new girl," was written over the photo.
Tobey has called games for the Spurs since 2024. Before joining the Spurs' booth, he worked at 9NEWS in Denver and has called play-by-play for outlets including Fox Sports and the Pac-12 Network.
NBA Drama Adds Another Chapter
Tobey is not the only high-profile alleged affair in the NBA in recent memory.
Former Boston Celtics head coach Ime Udoka was fired after his workplace affair with a team staffer.
The alleged affair not only cost Udoka his job, but his supermodel spouse, Nia Long, ended their 13-year relationship when the affair was exposed. Udoka and Long share a son, who was born in 2011.
The Celtics initially suspended Udoka for the remainder of the 2021-22 season, before dismissing him entirely in the offseason.
Celtics players were reportedly unhappy with the organization's decision to dismiss their head coach over the affair. NBA insider Adrian Wojnarowski reported that the team felt blindsided by the decision.
"This locker room never got over Ime Udoka's dismissal as head coach," he said in May 2023.
"These players did not accept the organization's reasoning for doing it. They thought it was a wild overreaction. There were a lot of people on the outside who thought it was an overreaction. That it was an HR matter."
