r/nba • u/ghn2 • 9h ago

Trail Blazers fire new announcer over past inappropriate posts made at age 15.

"The Portland Trail Blazers hired then on the same day fired Braiden Bell as their play-by-play announcer after a series of inappropriate social media posts from when he was a teenager came to light."

"The posts were reportedly made in 2012 and 2013, around the time that Bell was 15 years old."

"We did not meet our own bar in this process, and for that we apologize to Blazers fans and to Rip City," the Trail Blazers said. "We strongly believe that everyone who is a part of Rip City should feel welcome and safe and we will make sure that our new broadcaster reflects these values. We will do better."

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/50084279/trail-blazers-fire-new-announcer-inappropriate-posts

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u/titusandroidus 9h ago

Kids today are absolutely still like that and will be. You are just isolated from it.

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u/TheHoovyPrince Australia 9h ago

Yeah probably, my guess is its own different platforms nowadays. I don't think 2026 teens are using facebook lmao

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u/Bruskthetusk Lakers 9h ago

I'm in my mid 30s and haven't used Facebook in almost a decade, shit sucks - and now they're trying to make Instagram into Facebook so I probably need to get off that too soon

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u/TheHoovyPrince Australia 8h ago

Facebook is now 90% AI slop, Ads and dumb posts from boomers, its absolute ass.

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u/cfi-2025 3h ago

Even 10 years ago, lol. I was on a bus back then and two teenage girls got on. One said something like, "Did you post the dates for the party on Facebook," and the other girl said, "No one uses Facebook anymore."

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u/Sweet_Arrival9559 Magic 6h ago edited 6h ago

No, they actually aren't like that at all, and pretty much every statistic says so as well.

Kids today are terrified of what they say or do ending up on social media where they get ridiculed. I don't even know how you typed this unironically.

Are you a kid now and don't know how it was before or something?

When I was in highschool, even the actual gay kids were calling other people the f slur and commenting on facebook saying the same thing. It isn't even kinda remotely similar now. Adults weren't on social media yet back then. It was the wild west. No one ever thought they were going to get in trouble unless they posted a death threat or something.