
Everything on the internet lasts forever.
This sage advice was everywhere at the turn of the millennium, but play-by-play broadcaster Braiden Bell may have been too young to hear it.
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On Thursday, Bell was introduced as the new announcer for the NBA’s Portland Trail Blazers, with the organization praising him for being “authentic” and a “great fit” for the team, local outlet KGW8 reported.
However, Bell’s tenure would last only mere hours as that same local outlet dug up some old X posts (then tweets) from Bell — when he was only 15 years old — and contacted the Trail Blazers for comment about them.
Bell was promptly fired for his old jokes, which were later described by the basketball team as “racist, sexist” and
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