Getty Portland Trail Blazers small forward Deni Avdija.
The Portland Trail Blazers fired play-by-play announcer Braiden Bell on Thursday — the same day he was hired — over old racist and misogynistic tweets.
“The Trail Blazers fired their new television play-by-play broadcaster, Braiden Bell, hours after they announced the hire, after posts on X resurfaced from Bell’s past that featured misogynistic and racist comments,” The New York Post’s Christian Arnold wrote on October 1. “The objectionable social media posts were from 2012 and 2013, when Bell was roughly 15 years old, and contained comments about ‘Asian
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