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Mistake or not, Charlotte broadcaster's 'horrific tweet' must be weighed heavily

It’s 2020. Most of us have had phones with adaptive text abilities and autocorrect for years. And if you do, you know that the software doesn’t always pick things as quickly as we’d like — my phone, for instance, took a while to understand that I wasn’t typing “ducking.”

But it does adapt in time.

Which is why using the excuse that you “mistyped” the n-word is, if we’re being generous, not a believable excuse.

Yet that’s what Charlotte Hornets radio play-by-play announcer John Focke wants us to believe.

On Monday afternoon, Focke was apparently watching the Utah Jazz-Denver Nuggets playoff opener, and tweeted about the “awesome” shot-making in the game.