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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Days after being fired by the Portland Trail Blazers over social media posts he made as a teenager, Braiden Bell is asking the team for a second chance. The 29-year-old who, hours after being hired as the team’s new play-by-play broadcaster on Thursday, was subsequently…
Bell's legal counsel says he has proposed working alongside the Blazers in community and educational programming.
Play-by-play announcer Braiden Bell is asking for a second chance at becoming the voice of the Portland Trail Blazers. Bell, 29, graduated from Arizona State in 2019 and quickly took on jobs as a broadcaster in college sports. From there, Bell worked his way up to calling games for the WNBA’s…
The team said Bell’s past comments violated organization and league policies and acknowledged its hiring process “did not meet our
29-year-old Braiden Bell was announced as the new TV play-by-play voice of the Portland Trail Blazers on Thursday morning. By Thursday evening, the NBA franchise announced it was moving on from Bell after discovering several offensive social media posts he wrote as a teenager. “The Portland Trail…
