Rick Trotter was canned by the Grizzlies after his upskirt video arrest
MEMPHIS — An ex-NBA announcer who called games for the Memphis Grizzlies for a decade, was sentenced to 60 days behind bars for illicitly filming up women’s skirts at his church.
Rick Trotter, 41, was caught in 2016 kneeling behind behind a woman at the Memphis church where he worked and angling his church-issued cell phone to take an upskirt video, prosecutors said.
A police search of his phone and church-issued laptop revealed similar videos of four women also shot within the church. The women ranged in age from 29 to 63.
Trotter, who joined the Grizzlies announcing staff in 2006, was dumped by the team immediately after his arrest.
Church officials also cut ties with Trotter after his arrest, saying his termination was the result of “deception and moral failures of sexual nature.”
“This revelation has been deeply devastating to all of us,” the statement continued. “We, as elders, have come around his wife and children offering spiritual, emotional and financial support.”
Trotter will serve his 60-day sentence at the Shelby County Penal Farm followed by four years on probation. He also must register as a non-violent sex offender.
