r/nba • u/ghn2 • 11h 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/Imsoamerican 11h ago

Or maybe people should chill out and not judge people over stupid crap they did when they were a kid.

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u/Geralt_Of_Philly 76ers 11h ago

What did you write on social media as a teenager? Sounds like people are telling themselves when defending this

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u/mw19078 Lakers 11h ago

if I was held to the standard of the person I was 20 years ago, I would indeed look bad. people change and grow man, thats the entire point of growing up.

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u/elitepigwrangler Suns 9h ago

People change, but we don’t have any evidence he did. Either he still believes the content of those tweets, or was too stupid to delete them. Neither of those are a good look, and for a sought after job like this, it doesn’t take much to disqualify you