Blazers Fire Broadcaster Braiden Bell After Racist Posts Surface
The team dismissed the play-by-play announcer hours after hiring him due to past racist and sexist social media content.
The story so far
3 publishers have covered this in 3 articles since 2 Oct 2026. CBS Sports Headlines published first, on 2 October at 04:41 UTC; feeds.bleacherreport.com followed 7h 05m later. The most recent article, from www.espn.com, appeared on 2 October at 13:47 UTC.
Outlets reporting it: www.espn.com (major outlet), CBS Sports Headlines, feeds.bleacherreport.com.
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How it unfolded
Every source in the order it published.
- CBS Sports HeadlinesBlazers fire new announcer hours after hiring him over social media posts he made as a teen
- feeds.bleacherreport.comBlazers Fire Broadcaster Braiden Bell After Past Racist, Sexist Social Media Posts Surface
- www.espn.comTrail Blazers quickly fire new announcer over social media posts from 2012-13
Sources
Every article we clustered into this story. Headlines link to the publisher.
- Trail Blazers quickly fire new announcer over social media posts from 2012-13 www.espn.com ·
- Blazers Fire Broadcaster Braiden Bell After Past Racist, Sexist Social Media Posts Surface feeds.bleacherreport.com
- Blazers fire new announcer hours after hiring him over social media posts he made as a teen CBS Sports Headlines
In this story
- Braiden Bell
- Portland Trail Blazers