The radio voice for the Charlotte Hornets has been suspended after he wrote the N-word in a tweet about Monday’s playoff game between the Denver Nuggets and Utah Jazz.
John Focke, in his first season as play-by-play announcer for the team, deleted the tweet and apologized, admitting that he inserted the N-word in place of the word “Nuggets,” but explained it as a typo.
“Earlier today I made a horrific error while attempting to tweet about the Denver-Utah game,” he wrote in a follow-up message Monday night. “I don’t know how I mistyped, I had (and have) no intention of ever using that word.