If he takes a 20% pay cut tom would hire him in a heartbeat. Just like he would move the team for 20% more funding for an arena.

Tom Dundon, a man known for his compassion and sensitivity

Ah fuck did ya’ll see this letter? Maybe we were too hard on that guy who hates Asians

I am a lawyer

Yeah, it’s mind blowing to me that he never did that.

Most of us did the same. The only logical thing i can think of is he forgot he ever posted anything offensive and so never went back to remove anything.

Very dumb mistake but its not entirely uncommon to see. I just wish that if they were going to fire him just do it privately so he can delete his old comments and get another job. Its gonna be tough as for old mate to get work in media ever again since this was very public.

You would think one would take those posts down pretty quickly as soon as people started responding to them. He must have been proud of those posts to leave it up for so long that he just forgot they were there.

A lot of redditors on this sub genuinely believe all teenagers are heckin wholesome and they just can’t make mistakes. In their eye’s theres no forgiveness, no redemption and no second chance even if they look back at their teenage self with regret/shame and are a totally different person today.

Its often projection because every teenager said or did something they shouldn’t have. It might not have been something like Bell said but it would have been something that got them in trouble with school teachers, parents, guardians or even the police.

One person in my year level was so bad he got expelled after various suspensions for things like throwing the rude finger at the principal or swearing at a teacher. You know what happened? He turned his life around and he’s a guidance counseller at a school now. Thats someone who wants the next generation to not make the same mistakes he did.

Well, no, he didn’t say that. He said that Asian people “piss me off.” (https://www.kgw.com/article/sports/nba/blazers/trail-blazers-fire-new-broadcaster-after-misogynistic-racist-comments-surface/283-8c6b0cd9-3db0-4aba-89ec-545f5cdc0b86).

I’m not saying that’s not racist in and of itself, but he didn’t “straight up” do what you said, either.

He just straight up said he hates Asian people.

did he? the tweet was “asian people piss me off”

Well, no, he didn’t say that. He said that Asian people “piss me off.” (https://www.kgw.com/article/sports/nba/blazers/trail-blazers-fire-new-broadcaster-after-misogynistic-racist-comments-surface/283-8c6b0cd9-3db0-4aba-89ec-545f5cdc0b86).

I’m not saying that’s not racist in and of itself, but he didn’t “straight up” do what you said, either.

This isn’t something bad enough to make the news in a vacuum. Just because its easy to see why a big corp simply can’t be bothered with any controversy what so ever I don’t think its good to further encourage people using this bar. Basically every 15 year old boy has said some crazy shit

lol a teenager saying the stuff he did is not newsworthy. It’s also a little confusing saying this is their standard when they just traded for Ja Morant. Do we even need to list his social media track record as an adult?

”’m a little lost. Are you saying most teens do something bad enough to make the news? Maybe I’m misunderstanding.” Its in the news because of high profile this firing is. If its just some idiot 15 year old telling edgelord humor and is never discovered, then there’s no news. But most people have some skeleton in their closet of equal badness. Im not saying this particular thing, but most have something.

No chat logs since it was all voice chat but it was dumb of the guy to not delete old posts/comments on an account he uses for his professional account.

I just feel bad for the guy because being publicly fired over this is going to taint the rest of his working career. I disagree with firing him but if your gonna do it just do it privately so he has time to remove those posts and can gain employment without letting this impact any job he applies for.

He posted them when he was 15. What if someone had a recording of him playing CoD when he was 15. I know I have old screen recordings from playing games when I was a teen that I’m sure I could fry my friends with if I watched them back

It’s wild how people assume everyone just grew up with social media and everything online forever as the norm

Exactly. WTF is happening

Statistically, sure.

Realistically? Come the fuck on.

If someone put a microscope on your life they’d find nothing?

Nothing you’re embarrassed by or would do over or un-say?

One of the reasons why I think a lot of people went back to Trump was a reaction to me too stuff and the feeling that they were likely to not get a second chance if somebody un-Earthed old stuff about them.

My buddy’s older brother dressed up as Steve Urkel once when he was like nine. Painted himself black. Hands everything.

Does that guy - who is like 4+ decades later - have to worry about being cancelled?

Maybe not but like, we have to have some room for people to have the capacity to change.

I used to get bullied like crazy as a kid. I ran into some of those kids at college. Always thought I’d want revenge. Got it kinda on one and it didn’t really change anything or make anything better. I don’t even think they even remembered.

I have no idea if this guy is a piece of shit or not but like…

Everyone deserves a chance to not be the piece of shit they were as a teen if they’ve changed.

Thats just what teenagers do, their dumb and arent thinking about what their saying and usually doing it because their friends are or because its a form of rebellion against their parents. Everyone knows its wrong but 14 year old teenagers brain is still developing.

I didn’t really post anything on social media since that could get me in trouble but i know myself and my friends said shit when gaming on Halo 3 or MW2 when we were getting trolled/attacked for being squeaky sounding kids.

Again, anyone here saying they didn’t say or do anything offensive when they were a teenager is just lying, it isn’t fooling anyone.

Saying anything offensive is awful but thats just what teenagers do. I don’t look back with pride that i said anything offensive but instead look back with regret/shame because its not something i would say now or want my future kids to say. If Bell said the same comments when he was 18 or older i would absolutely support him being fired and blacklisted from working in the NBA. His comments targeted Asians and i’m Asian myself and i would hate seeing him working in the NBA if he said those comments recently.

Teens are dumb and will do things they know are wrong but end up doing them because they were pressured into it by friends or because its a form of rebellion against their parents. I couldnt say curse words or make an offensive joke at home cause my parents would beat the shit out of me so i would with friends and it was the same for them.

And if they didn’t say something offensive they DID something offensive or wrong. I had friends who didn’t make offensive social media comments/posts but would say an offensive thing infront of a teacher. I had a friend that stole lollies from a store a couple of times and even got wacked by the cops because of it. Should they be banished from society and never work again if though they aren’t who they were as teenagers anymore? People can grow and learn from mistakes they made as a teenager.

Exactly. I understand he was a kid and that kids say dumb things, but I never said stuff like that as a teenager, and none of my friends ever did either. The vast majority of people I went to school w wouldn’t have said this, so why should the team bend over backwards to re-hire him when there are so many others without this sort of controversy? He’s not going to be rehired, and him getting a lawyer to contest this just reflects more poorly on him

Exactly. I grew up in a mid sized Midwest city and still I don’t know any of my friends who posted racist things on their public social media accounts. The vast majority of people did not do that and knew even as teenagers not to do it.

People trying to pretend like it was universal or something are insane.

Well yeah, saying offensive things when 14 and 15 is something i own up to and very glad to have matured from.

Sad to see someone trying to lie and say they didn’t engage in the same behaviour but we all know you did champ. Not fooling anyone.

It’s pretty easy to not consider the gravity of what you are saying when your brain hasn’t fully developed. I work with young people and the shit they verbalise is both a) insane and b) simultaneously doesn’t define them as people. Teenagers are impulsive, lack critical thinking, and often just want to cause a stir for no other reason than they’re bored. They grow out of it.

I invite you to engage with the ways in which a teenager posting something problematic is different from as an adult.

That’s fair. You’re talking about from the organization perspective. I stand by my opinion it’s a non-racist posing as racist fart of a tweet.

I’m half Asian. Had zero reaction to the tweet. Dude said nothing. It’s like a tweet he wanted an Asian friend to see but he couldn’t come up with anything to roast him with.

I mean, why not feel some type of way about both the tweet and how the players treated an Asian player? You (Asian, apparently) letting someone get away with some unprovoked tweet about your community gives others room to wonder “Well, if Asians don’t care about that, surely they won’t care about this”

Like the saying goes: “You give them an inch (unprovoked racist tweet when they were 15), and they’ll take a mile (whatever bs you said Jeremy Lin went through)

It’s no wonder Anti-Asian racism/microagressions don’t get taken seriously, because the Asians themselves don’t even take it seriously. Some of them straight up enable it lol

Your Reddit account is 13 years old. I’m sure I could find something questionable in there and if someone wanted to could go digging more and connect it to who you are IRL. Your history isn’t hidden.

Most people don’t have the time to do that on a regular basis.

For someone who is media facing I can agree with you that they should be purging their profiles, but I wouldn’t say that’s basic. Most people don’t do that.

That being said, I don’t think the team had a choice here.

I understand the science and i even agree with the notion of a second chance. I can also understand the blazers not wanting to touch it still.

This is just silly. “Starting a broader conversation” and trying to have a positive impact in the Asian American community is something he can do regardless if he really

cares about it.

Something tells me he won’t bother doing it without having the broadcaster job.

More importantly, why should the Blazers care to go through all of that for someone who hasn’t even worked there yet? This is the “blueprint” for say, a broadcaster who’s worked at the company for years. Not someone new.

Like you start a new job and you immediately go on a damage control tour? lol that makes no sense.

This really screams I’m sorry this got caught, not sorry it happened.

> Sure, it’s stupid. But that doesn’t mean it’s a fireable offense

That is literally what it means.

Source: They fired him.

Companies have looked at your profile history for decades. Kevin Hart lost his Oscars job because of tweets in 2019. Why are you acting like this is precedent setting in 2026 when it’s been the norm forever.

every org does think this same way. If you posted something bad when you’re 15 years old, you delete it or at the very least you don’t continue to post from that same account lol.

It’s a different story if he’s applying for a job that’s very specialized or that only he can perform. But he’s inexperienced and there’s plenty of other options. Unfortunately that’s how most organizations and companies work

You don’t seem to understand, that’s exactly what a good portion of this sub wants. This guy and any other person who made a mistake at any point growing up, no matter how young or how small. They get some sort of weird satisfaction from a stranger getting fired for something that doesn’t affect them at all. They’re outraged today and calling for his head and tomorrow they won’t even think of him again, while the guy probably thinks his life is ruined.

Knock yourself out. Come let us know when you found anything at all.

Fired by public institutions over their speech. Huge difference. Don’t know of anyone who won a settlement against a private company

Government employees, because the government is infringing on free speech by disciplining them for their speech. The Portland Trail Blazers, as a private organization, are not constrained by that.

Reinstatement is pretty much only gonna happen for a private employer in discrimination and retaliation cases. And even then it’s way more common to settle for damages and front pay without returning to the role.

This is my ultimate take-away, dude was reckless for leaving dumb tweets like that up on his main work account

Tell that to every career counselor and teacher who recommends this to every student from high school through college for the past 20 years.

I think you’re not realizing how gargantuanly stupid it is to not clear your social media accounts when you work a PUBLIC-FACING job.

He isn’t some cubicle desk job employee who shouldn’t have to think twice about people digging through their tweet history. He’s a damn broadcaster.

That alone is an unbelievable lapse of judgement. Anyone in any public-facing job has to be cognizant at all times about their Internet footprint.

His tweets really weren’t that bad but given it was a public facing job he should’ve had those tweets deleted. I don’t work a public facing job and I deleted all of my socials bc I knew I said some diabolical things 15 years ago

Nah, there are plenty of people that didn’t tweet shit like that, and now the team can hire one of those people.

If he’s using his old shitposting account professionally while he’s representing an NBA franchise then he’s a gigantic idiot and I’d question what other dumb shit he’d do.

In a public job- that disqualifies him.

Gotta be stupid to not know anything you’ve done or said online is saved somewhere

That’s his responsibility.

Did I say that? Not everything is the same for everyone. However, if you have a history of slurs and offensive language, your career choice might make that a wise decision.

If you’re going to have a public facing job and be the voice of a team, it’s probably a good idea to scrub your socials of potentially inflammatory and insensitive comments.

How a grown ass adult keeps the same socials from high school through their professional career is wild to me. Most people make new socials once they graduate college and start their careers. Or they delete all the childish shit bc they’re adults now.

It’s been common career advice for a long time, that what you say when you’re 15 can come back and bite you. I was told this about Facebook and myspace when I was in high school twenty years ago.

Yes??? You should make sure your public profiles do not have you saying racist shit on them, is that controversial?

If those things are open for the public to see, then yeah? Why…wouldn’t you..?

Fucking duh if they published it online. Double duh if they published it on their work account when they were 14. This is an insane question.

What? Absolutely 100% if you’re pursuing a public facing career. I’m sure most all people in similar positions are doing an audit these days

Only if you want to have a job

Only the stuff they tweet 🤦‍♂️

I mean, yeah? Like if you said a bunch of racist shit on the internet when you were young I think you get a pass. But if you leave it up you either didn’t change or don’t care. Like it’s not hard to not be racist. It’s even easier to delete that shit.

If you put it on the internet, yes.

I agree but we are living in a time where people can have digital permanent records of their lives that can be published and searched through.

Are you saying it would be okay to not hire him because of the tweets, but not okay to let him go a few hours after hiring him?

And how long is he allowed to have the job that they dont want him to do?

Yeah I’m surprised pro teams don’t offer a scrub as part of the hiring process

We had nfl players posting fake Hitler quotes back in 2020 WITH other players defending it and nobody lost their jobs lol. But that’s ok for some reason

Unemployable because of a child’s social media or because you can’t do a job.

And he’s still using the same socials. That’s reckless and asking for trouble. Everyone knows you make new shit when you start applying for adult jobs. It’s what Finsta’s are for, for Pete’s sake.

The point was he was dumb enough to still have that publicly available. Should he be trusted to represent the team if hes that dumb

You have to understand, there’s a difference between being edgy when you’re 15, and broadcasting that and leaving it up on your work account. There’s nuance here.

I believe by represent himself they in part meant to he should present a clean public image which includes making sure their 15 year old edgy shit isn’t easily searchable.

Let’s try first and see what happens. If that’s true then we can reverse course.

Weird, I managed to get thru my teenage years without being a shitty little racist edge lord.

So delete it when you become an adult and a professional. It’s so easy.

I sure did.

But I’m also not a minority that Bell offended.

Everyone supporting this firing is the reason why trump won twice lmfao

I hate the mother fucker but the hall monitors helped create this world

Reddit libs stay mad and stay losing

I pray to God my xbox chat logs/voice chats are not stored somewhere. Oh boy some of the things I said.

Asian-Australian here and sorry buddy, the caucasians of reddit are here to downvote us and speak for us instead.

According to them teenagers can’t ever make mistakes and are just supposed to be ‘heckin wholesome’ but if they did manage to do something wrong then its basically the same as murder and they should be treated as criminals.

You never did what? Do you mind completing your sentence?

That’s the thing these people don’t get. The decision-makers are apolitical.

Meanwhile you got people thinking this is a matter of owning da libs.

Kamala

don’t get your hopes up lol

I’m confused can you elaborate? What did he say in particular?

I agree, i’m just saying how dumb do you have to be to not go back and delete the account when you have such a high profile job? like wtf

What’s he supposed to do to counter tweets as a teenager? Tweets as an adult?

just like the other guy said, you are virtue signaling. i said this elsewhere but i didn’t say anything crazy on social media because social media didn’t exist when i was in high school. still doesn’t mean i don’t empathize with kids doing stupid shit.

Well, I guess I disagree.

The “stupid” stuff that my friends and I did as teenagers was stuff like exploring abandoned buildings, jumping off 50 ft cliffs into the ocean, driving way too fast on curvy roads in the Santa Cruz mountains, and sneaking alcohol underage.

Stuff like that is I guess technically illegal, but I wouldn’t call it “terrible.” On the other hand, I would consider things like being flagrantly racist/misogynist, stealing/vandalizing property, or etc. to be kind of terrible even at that age… bc then you’re explicitly and intentionally being hurtful towards others. You can be an adventurous teenager without doing that.

Most people aren’t an outward representation and spokesperson for a multi-billion dollar organization.

You’re being remarkably careless if you don’t scrub your socials when applying for jobs. This isn’t a new thing, people are aware it can happen, you’re being foolish if you don’t get out ahead of it.

They’ll find someone who was lucky enough whatever terrible edgelord garbage they did at age 15 isn’t easily availible in tweet form today.

They gave him a job offer and then rescinded it

Until you start the job you are not an employee

And I wouldn’t want hire a known dumbass to be the public voice of my billion dollar sports franchise.

The issue is he might still be that guy and then it’s not 14 year old edgelord it’s your play by play guy

I’ve been there. It fucking sucks.

Trying to shame people for working out… Makes sense. I bet you don’t have one Asian friend you can ask about this.

I don’t disagree w u. I was unfamiliar with Aja’s situation but I was just making the point that athletes are held to different standards than us normal people

That’s not what I was saying lol. People can make a claim that he was just trying to be funny with how he worded the racist asian tweet

Saying “no blacks either #racist” is just straight up racist lmao

I don’t think he’s racist I think he’s careless, why should they trust him for 82 games a year

What a dumb standard. Why does he need to prove he’s not a racist? He said some very mildly racist shit as a teenager when his brain wasnt fully developed. I got into fights as a teenager. Haven’t had one in 20 years - do I need to “prove im not violent” now to every prospective employer? He hasnt had any racist encounters or anything in his adult life - why do we need to assume he’s guilty until proven innocent? Hes done play by play for college sports and wnba for a long time now and hasnt said anything racist…

Right, cuz 15 year olds have realistic expectations.

This is the same sub that wanted montrezl harrel suspended for calling Luka a white boi lol

You know you’re cooked when a Celtics fan is pointing this out hahaha.

I mean I am white and grew up in a racist ass part of America and I honestly didn’t learn right from wrong when it comes to certain language and “jokes” until I went to college and was exposed to different types of people and different ideas. I don’t have any of my social media accounts from when I was a dumb ass kid but I’m sure I posted some dumb shit too and I don’t think anyone in my life would think I’m the kind of person who would say shit like that now at 33

Lmao you can say white bud, holy shit Americans and race

Imagine getting downvoted for also including that part.

A “Braiden” gets cancelled and people are losing their minds in here. They’re mourning for one of their own.

Ohhh. I hadn’t seen that. Either way, I don’t necessarily feel bad for him. There are plenty of folks out there who haven’t vocally broadcast racist remarks, let them get a chance.

so hold the athletes to the same standard. or is that different.

i am sure everyone on the trailblazers roster did noting wrong a when they were 15….