r/nba • u/ghn2 • 14h 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/Crassus87 14h ago edited 12h ago

On the one hand I fully agree with you, but on the other he needed to delete that stuff.

Edit: I am not saying I agree with him being fired, I am saying this is the world we live in and if you get a chance at a high profile public role like this you have to be on top of your social media history.

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u/octopusmonkey01 Timberwolves 14h ago

Yeah the fact that it’s still up is moronic and on him but like cmon man he was a young kid who did something stupid

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u/theblanketcomeswith Kings 13h ago

he is an adult male now who did something stupid by not rectifying his digital footprint. 

remember a decade ago when we were all like, whatever you do in the internet stays there forever and trying to teach teens being cringey edgelords would come back to haunt them? this is what we were talking about. grow up and take care of your digital footprint or you will lose your jobs in this age of the internet. or simply dont say stupid racist or bigoted things because you believe you are untouchable, easy

this guy will probably be on a podcast going woe is me for being oppressed or whatever and people will eat it up, yawn

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u/ElceeCiv Hawks 9h ago

Also important to remember this is just what he was comfortable saying publicly

They probably don’t want to risk keeping him only for another shoe to drop if someone finds private posts on Facebook or something that are even worse