Trail Blazers Fire Announcer Over Insensitive Teenage Tweets

The Portland Trail Blazers fired play-by-play announcer Braiden Bell the same day they announced his hire after a local reporter uncovered insensitive tweets from 2012 and 2013, when he was a teenager.

Devon Haskins, a reporter for Portland NBC affiliate KGW, found tweets from when Bell was about 15 years old. "I'm not racist at all.. But not gonna lie.. Asian people piss me off! Hahaha #Honest," Bell wrote in one of the tweets. In another, he wrote, "Gotta give a shoutout to all the big girls out there and those closet whores."