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The fired Portland Trail Blazers announcer is apologizing for the offensive tweets that got him sacked.<\/p>\n
Braiden Bell<\/a> went on X to issue a brief, written apology, saying … “I am deeply sorry for the language I used on Twitter. These tweets, while wrong, were written by me 14 years ago while I was only 15 years old and have no reflection of who I am today.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n He continues … “I regret this being my first impression to many of you online, but I can take solace in knowing that the people who truly know me understand that this is not the kind of person I am.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n As you know … Bell was canned<\/a> as the Trail Blazers’ play-by-play commentator hours after he was announced because KGW8<\/a> resurfaced and reported on racist and sexist tweets he posted when he was 15.<\/p>\n He concluded his apology by saying … “Again, I’d like to apologize to anyone who was hurt by my words and will continue to always treat people with kindness and respect.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NBA’s Portland Trail Blazers Announcer Apologizes for Racist, Sexist Tweets Published October 2, 2026 5:09 PM PDT The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":849647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3784],"tags":[7,601,6,67,687,471,3967,66,83,2228,1617],"class_list":["post-849646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-portland-trail-blazers","tag-basketball","tag-blazers","tag-nba","tag-news","tag-portland","tag-portland-trail-blazers","tag-portlandtrailblazers","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-tmz-sports","tag-trail-blazers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117374783959417396","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Braiden](\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/506ec587ac204744b6bca02ffe5fb191_md.jpg\")
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