Portland Trail Blazers Fire Newly-Hired Announcer Over Tweets From 2012… When He Was 15 Years Old

I thought we were done with this kind of stuff? The Portland Trail Blazers announced yesterday that they had fired play-by-play announcer Braiden Bell – on the same day he was hired – after a local news station went all the way back to 2012 and discovered what they called “misogynistic” and “racist” tweets from Bell…who was 15 at the time. The tweets were brought to the attention of the NBA team by KGW reporter Devon Haskins, who reached out […] The post Portland Trail Blazers Fire Newly-Hired Announcer Over Tweets From 2012… When He Was 15 Years Old first appeared on Whiskey Riff.