“The Charlotte Hornets on Tuesday suspended their radio broadcaster after he used the N-word on Twitter, which he claimed was a ‘mistyped’ word and ‘horrific error.’ Play-by-play man John Focke wrote the racial slur in a tweet Monday night during an NBA game between the Utah Jazz and Denver Nuggets” NBC News reports.
“Focke was marveling at the shooting display of both teams, particularly Utah’s Donovan Mitchell and Denver’s Jamal Murray, and posted a tweet that has since been deleted. But it was captured in numerous screen shots. ‘Shot making in this Jazz-(N-word) game is awesome! Murray and Mitchell going back and forth what a game!’ he wrote. The racist slur was the word that should have been ‘Nuggets.’ ‘The Charlotte Hornets are aware of the recent social media post by radio broadcaster John Focke,’ the team said in a statement on Tuesday.”