Trail Blazers quickly fire new announcer over social media posts from 2012-13
Trail Blazers quickly fire new announcer over social media posts from 2012-13. The Trail Blazers hired then on the same day fired Braiden Bell as their play-by-play announcer after a series of inappropriate social media posts from when he was a teenager came to light.
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