The Charlotte Hornets have suspended play-by-play radio announcer John Focke indefinitely after he took to Twitter on Monday and used the N-word during the Jazz-Nuggets game. Focke said this was the result of a unfortunate typo while commenting on Game 1 of the Utah Jazz-Denver Nuggets playoff series.
“Shot making in this Jazz-(N-word) game is awesome! Murray and Mitchell going back and forth what a game!” the tweet read.
The announcer posted an apology hours later.
The Hornets also released a statement.
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Nobody’s phone would ever auto-correct to that word, so he has clearly typed it before…..many, many, many times before.
