The Portland Trail Blazers hired 29-year-old Braiden Bell (as the NBA team’s new play-by-play announcer) around lunchtime and fired him before the plates from dinner hit the sink, writes columnist Bill Oram. https://www.oregonlive.com/blazers/2026/10/fiasco-over-fired-trail-blazer-broadcasters-tweets-shows-that-going-cheap-can-be-costly-bill-oram.html