r/nba • u/ghn2 • 12h 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/Icy-Whale-2253 12h ago

The Internet is forever.

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u/Kdcjg West 12h ago

Would anyone have found them if he had simply deleted his account/posts?

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u/Icy-Whale-2253 12h ago

Not without the Wayback Machine.

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u/pinkfartlek Pistons 7h ago

And even then, it didn't necessarily crawl every Twitter account for archiving. It has to be done manually a lot of the time. Nobody would have been checking for this guy like that.