{"id":539058,"date":"2026-10-02T07:37:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T05:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=539058"},"modified":"2026-10-02T07:37:35","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T05:37:35","slug":"trail-blazers-part-ways-with-new-announcer-braiden-bell-after-old-racist-tweets-resurface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/trail-blazers-part-ways-with-new-announcer-braiden-bell-after-old-racist-tweets-resurface\/","title":{"rendered":"Trail Blazers part ways with new announcer Braiden Bell after old racist tweets resurface"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Portland Trail Blazers have parted ways with newly hired TV play-by-play announcer Braiden Bell. The decision came after racist and offensive social media posts he made as a teenager resurfaced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to <strong>Chris Haynes<\/strong>, Portland ended its relationship with Bell after several tweets dating back to 2012 and 2013 resurfaced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The posts included offensive comments about Asian people and women. Bell had only recently been hired as the Trail Blazers\u2019 new television play-by-play announcer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland Trail Blazers have parted ways with newly hired announcer Braiden Bell after old racist and offensive tweets resurfaced<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":448815,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-539058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/06\/Portland-Trail-Blazers.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":539059,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539058\/revisions\/539059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539058"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=539058"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=539058"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=539058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}