Overview

• PHNX said employee opinions do not represent PHNX or parent ALLCITY Network and cited its commitment to safety in announcing the dismissal.
• Gerald Bourguet, a Phoenix Suns beat reporter who also co-hosted the PHNX Suns podcast, was the staffer let go.
• In a series of posts after Kirk’s death, Bourguet criticized him as spreading hateful rhetoric and said he would not mourn an “evil man.”
• The posts drew wider attention after being amplified Wednesday night, and PHNX announced its decision to part ways on Thursday.
• The Carolina Panthers also fired communications staffer Charlie Rock over a social-media reaction to the killing, and authorities had not publicly identified a gunman in the Utah shooting.