Wizards Broadcasters, Surely punishment incoming

[MrGoat]

Is everybody in this thread crazy? Legit question. Like both sides look incredibly dense right now.

1. He 99% mistakenly referred to Kevin Porter, a former Wizards player (6 years there, 4 time assist leader), unless you guys thought he was waiting for the exact moment that KPJ made a dagger buzzer beater to refer to his actual father's gun charges and had a death wish of wanting to get fired by saying what he said. You can argue that this guy needs to do his research instead of assuming, just a very **** coincidence.

This makes sense, even more so because Kevin Porter was a Wizard. And even if he was actually intentionally making a very tasteless joke (I doubt it) this is the defense he should use.

[Jimmy Recard]

I’d turned it off before I saw any of this.

Has to be a mistake / horrible coincidence. Glenn Consor is usually a class act and always really complimentary of opponent players. Completely out of character if this was intentional.

[BeatDaCavs420]

Hey Silver time to hold these announcers and your awful refs accountable for **** like this. But god for bid a player skip a rona test lmao

[Sofia]

What are the chances the broadcaster actually knew that about his real father? How many here actually knew it before reading the OP?

If it was intentional, the guy is a bum and should be harshly punished, but I think it’s more likely an unintentional mix up, especially being that the mistaken father played for the franchise he is broadcasting for.

Ya, that's what I think. Very very unfortunate mistake to make. Question is whether he should be fired. Sure, it was a mistake, but he's also a professional who really should do his research... Even when it's as simple as reading a Wikipedia page.

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I would hope he’s not fired for a silly mistaken identity, that would be too far.

[BeatDaCavs420]

Why you so grumpy? take a chill pill, what makes you think that that's his darkest moment of his life? Are you related to him?

If I earn millions playing professional sports in front of millions, I wont have a choice would I?

No, actually I am in the mood to laugh.

So what's the deepest darkest moment in your life so I can all laugh at you.

Waiting.

My darkest moment is probably this, having this pointless conversation with you, laugh away

Get help dude.

[BeatDaCavs420]

My darkest moment is probably this, having this pointless conversation with you, laugh away

You are a coward and hypocrite like I thought. LMAO.

You know that you are not making any sense right ?
Do you even read what you typed? Truly amazing


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[srhcan]

So this was said live on air

Read on Twitter

Honestly a massive low blow. It's a tasteless shot at a guy. I dont think anything his dad did should be thrown into a conversation like that


For those who dont know what they are referring to

https://www.sportscasting.com/kevin-porter-jr-s-father-spent-4-years-in-prison-for-manslaughter-and-was-later-killed-in-a-bar-fight/

We rag on the Warriors commentators personal attacks on players, But this is 10 times worse

Its possible it was a mixup? The commentator was thinking of some NBA player as his dad may be?

[DaddyCool19]

i’m a big anti woke and anti sensitivity type guy but this is messed up. broadcaster should be fired for sure. f that guy

only excuse is if he didn’t know about the father but i just don’t see how that could be true

Do you think those guys look up every opponent players past before commentating a game? Some of them like Marv Albert didn't even know what was actually happening at the time they were talking.

[Haldi]

people are so sensitive these days, can't talk about sex, race, sexual preferences, religion and now, family history

Always get a chuckle out of these posts. You realize saying swear words on television was (and I think technically still is) a violation of federal law, which was enacted during whatever days you think people weren’t so sensitive right?

People have always been sensitive. They’ve just decided it’s ok to say **** but probably not ok to reference a guy’s dead father shooting a girl as he shoots a basketball in an NBA game on live television.

Most people always thought that was dumb even back then, but yes there was some stupid justice warriors even back then that tried to be offended by everything, including just words. Thankfully we have people like George Carlin that made it a point to make others realize this and now swear words are much more accepted in society, but sadly still are illegal on network television but ok everywhere else, which is just dumb. The new rage today is anything considered “attacks on the person”, everyone is looking to be offended by anything that would be considered an “attack” on anyone, and thankfully we do still have few stand up comedians and others like them, that keep making fun of people.

The other night in the Grizzlies vs Nets game, the announcer had a really good one too with something like “Desmond Bane, still terrorizing Gotham” and I chuckled a bit. But what about all those thousands of people that lost their lives in that movie, its so offensive to those people right. People really need to let this crap go, if you don’t find it funny, nothing wrong with that, but to be completely over the top offended by it for KPJ ( who you don’t even know and also don’t know that maybe he thought it was funny and can laugh at himself ) is just ridiculous.

[bbalnation]

Is everybody in this thread crazy? Legit question. Like both sides look incredibly dense right now.

1. He 99% mistakenly referred to Kevin Porter, a former Wizards player (6 years there, 4 time assist leader), unless you guys thought he was waiting for the exact moment that KPJ made a dagger buzzer beater to refer to his actual father's gun charges and had a death wish of wanting to get fired by saying what he said. You can argue that this guy needs to do his research instead of assuming, just a very **** coincidence.

I think the announcer thought of the wrong Kevin Porter.

With that said, I dont think anyone's crazy.

Many fans also made that mistake (like myself when I first heard it), but in this case, the announcer informed the public and said, "like his father". It may be worth noting that it lacked planning & communication with his research team (to say the least) and he went in with an unverified conclusion (likely reached by a couple assumptions he made or indicators he noticed that made him think that his conclusion was a fact- otherwise he wouldn't share it with the public as a member of the media).

There are strong reactions to the idea that this announcer would intentionally say this (which again, I dont think he did). That makes sense to me. The casual fan (or the hard-core fan) doesn't know about the Washington Bullets player, Kevin Porter, from the 70s.

There are larger topics here imo outside of realgm, including the Wizards organization with its public perception history around guns: (Washington Bullets, the situation with the guns in the locker room and now this).

The NBA, USA, and humanity as a whole has a complicated & strong relationship with guns, and the lives they impact (imo). It brings out a lot of ìntense reactions in unintended places imo, along with other overarching topics in this really **** situation. Im not suggesting any call to change with this post: just pointing out what I think I see, and I could be wrong.

Wishing & sending good thoughts to the family members & loved ones of both Kevin Porter families & those impacted, young and old.

[hauntedcomputer]

Dude starting a petition to change team name back to the Bullets

[jokeboy86]

Mistaken identity nothing more than that. But I'm actually surprised that anybody in the Wizards organization would mention any words correlating to guns after the whole Arenas/Crittendon thing not to mention that oh yeah they did change their name from bullets to wizards.

[wojoaderge]

If a Wizards announcer doesn't know that Kevin Porter isn't Kevin Porter Jr.'s dad, then he's pretty unprofessional/ignorant

[Larry_Russell]

uncalled for and unnecessary.

[Ruzious]

Probably just a poor choice of words. I'm assuming his dad played basketball as well.

Yup. I'm old enough to remember watching Kevin Porter on the Bullets - he was my favorite player for a while when I was a kid. Super-fast quick little guard, pure point guard, couldn't shoot. Having listened to Glenn Consor for years, I'm sure he was thinking (incorrectly) that that particular Kevin Porter was the father of Kevin Porter, Jr. He just made an innocent unfortunate mistake.

[Lockdown504090]

yea, im firing him. call it cancelling or whatever you want, but nobodys letting that go. You cant make mistakes like that on air. MAYBE a suspension if it was just the mistaken identity thing ppl are suggesting, but personally, i dont care. do your research or stay at home and stfu

[nyczlegacy]

people are so sensitive these days, can't talk about sex, race, sexual preferences, religion and now, family history

LMAO this is not related at all. what an ape comment

[Ruzious]

yea, im firing him. call it cancelling or whatever you want, but nobodys letting that go. You cant make mistakes like that on air. MAYBE a suspension if it was just the mistaken identity thing ppl are suggesting, but personally, i dont care. do your research or stay at home and stfu

Seriously? Even though it's obvious that it was an innocent mistake, you think a guy who's worked hard at his profession for decades should lose his job?

[danvato]

Is everybody in this thread crazy? Legit question. Like both sides look incredibly dense right now.

1. He 99% mistakenly referred to Kevin Porter, a former Wizards player (6 years there, 4 time assist leader), unless you guys thought he was waiting for the exact moment that KPJ made a dagger buzzer beater to refer to his actual father's gun charges and had a death wish of wanting to get fired by saying what he said. You can argue that this guy needs to do his research instead of assuming, just a very **** coincidence.

2. This has nothing to do with cancel culture or people being soft or snowflakes or something. You wouldn't say "This guy puts it in the hole with skill, just like his dad!" if some NBA's player dad was accused of sexual assault or rape or something and blame people for being "too soft" if there was an actual comparison made there. That's unprofessional and way over the line. Go to the Comedy Club and do a routine if you want to be funny like that. It's just there's probably a mistake here.

It reminds me of the baseball fan that everybody on Twitter went crazy about because they thought he was calling the batter the "N" word. Turns out he was drunkenly yelling at the mascot "Dinger", which is why nobody around him made any fuss or tried to fight him or anything, yet people try to pretend to hear otherwise

You're wrong though. This is exactly what "cancel culture" and "snowflakes" represents. I doubt anyone in this thread actually watched this game live, for the 1st 2 pages, there were 2 posts saying this is probably mistaken identity. Everyone else was here, with their pitch forks, ready to battle after seeing a tweet on the internet, not applying any logic or reason to maybe think, hmm, why the hell would an announcer say that, didn't bother to read into the responses that might explain why he did say it, no, just assume the worst, get angry and run to post on your favorite platform.

Mods should just lock this thread.

[danvato]

You’re upset that it’s “politically correct” to be mad at this guy for referencing Porter’s father’s crime and or murder out of nowhere? That really triggers you? You’re going to complain about that? If that’s not the case, what even is your point?

My point is very simple: a person is innocent until proven guilty.

As I said above, let the guys defend themselves before jumping into assumptions on what they might have said.

Your best case scenario here is that this announcer did zero research and just assumed a player for a visiting team was related to a guy that played for the home team 40 years ago. A fact he likely didn’t reference or verify at any other point until literally the last shot of the game. Just call a spade a spade, dude.

Would you still be here with your outrage if that same announcer, made the same assumption about a different player and made some reference to it that by pure coincidence wasn't also related to a different person with the same name that committed a crime?

It's a rhetorical question you see, the answer is an obvious no. It wouldn't have been posted on Twitter and you wouldn't know about it. You'd be mad about something else. So the "best case scenario" you described, isn't actually something bad for worth getting upset about at all, is it?