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Suspended Hornets Broadcaster Calls N-Word Tweet a “Horrific Error”
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Oh no.
The Charlotte Hornets’ play-by-play announcer currently finds himself suspended indefinitely for sending a tweet that used the N word, and it’s a hard R, too.
John Focke was commenting on the Jazz/Nuggets game on Twitter, when he sent this instead:
Oof.
Did his phone autocorrect Nuggets to the N-word instead? And if so, wouldn’t that suggest that he uses the slur frequently? That’s a topic of discussion on social media, though I’m not sure the technology guiding autocorrect would pass for infallible evidence in a court of law (though the court of public opinion is certainly more loose).
Here’s what he had to say:
https://twitter.com/JWFOCKE/status/1295538617323003904?s=20
Very interested to see how this story plays out.
Kevin has been writing about Philadelphia sports since 2009. He spent seven years in the CBS 3 sports department and started with the Union during the team's 2010 inaugural season. He went to the academic powerhouses of Boyertown High School and West Virginia University. email - k.kinkead@sportradar.com