Wizards Broadcasters, Surely punishment incoming

[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

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?

I dont see how its obvious. if he worked hard at his profession he would have gone further than to assume to black dudes born 50 years apart are related because of a name.

[ReasonablySober]

There is absolutely no chance he was talking about his father and what happened. This is a case of mistaken identity. He should have looked it up, but this is very obviously an honest mistake.

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The ironic thing in all of this are the people who are calling for this guy's head, they themselves not knowing there was a good Kevin Porter who used to play in the league.

[Movics]

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

How did it make sense in his head that a player from the 70’s fathered a now 21 year old kid? Either the joke, or that level of incompetence is worthy of firing him.

Btw, anything happened to Azubuike and his horrible British Mexican accent?

[PistolPeteJR]

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

Unfortunately, including me quite frankly, people like to read into things out of context and take secondary sources that are often biased as gospel far too often. Mix that in with laziness and things like unwillingness to give the benefit of the doubt, and you get this.

[danvato]

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

You don't need to be anti woke to be a snowflake. Most of page 3 are comments explaining what happened here, but you didn't bother to read any of them when you posted, you just wanted the realgm to know your immediate reaction to the headline. This is how and why fake news works.

[danvato]

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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wow, you STILL want to fire him even AFTER you acknowledge it was just random coincidence.

Watch out for this guy.

[AbeVigodaLive]

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

To be fair...

I made a similar mistake. Immediately, I thought he was referring to Kevin Porter from the 70s/80s.

Only one problem... I'm not being paid $200k+ NOT to make that sort of mistake. The basketball announcer is paid to do his research. He is paid to know these details. He is paid not to make egregious mistakes like in front of hundreds of thousands (or millions) of people and embarrass himself and the company paying him.

Should he be fired for insensitive remarks? Only if intentional...
Should he be fired for not doing his research when that's part of his job? Sure...

[Ruzious]

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

How did it make sense in his head that a player from the 70’s fathered a now 21 year old kid? Either the joke, or that level of incompetence is worthy of firing him.

Btw, anything happened to Azubuike and his horrible British Mexican accent?

I mean... there's a million reasons people make innocent mistakes every day. At that moment, maybe he was thinking of Wes Matthews, Jr and Sr - Wes Sr being a former Bullet and Jr being a current Buck. People make mistakes. That doesn't mean they're racist or incompetent. It's part of being human.

[Nuntius]

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.

What? Why would anyone find it offensive? Batman is a work of fiction. It's not reality. Can't you differentiate between the two?

[yoyoboy]

Outrage culture never fails to amaze me. It’s so abundantly clear the guy made a mistake and thought KPJ’s dad was the Porter who played for the franchise he calls games for, but people actually find it more likely he would viciously attack his real dad for killing someone, an event I’m sure he had no awareness of. Even if for the sake of argument he did know about it and for some reason did have some personal vendetta against the Porter family boiling inside him, he almost certainly wouldn’t say something like that over the air as if getting that tasteless remark out there would be more important to him than keeping a job he’s held for 22 years and has never said anything malicious during, which affords him some credibility here I would think in giving him the benefit of the doubt.

Also no surprise LeBron comes in to chime in and attack someone in yet another situation he’s completely clueless about. He’s been so unlikeable lately. This announcer made a clear mistake and didn’t intentionally mean to attack KPJ’s father. LeBron downplayed a virus that has killed 5.5 million people worldwide in just 2 years by comparing it to the common cold. What an absolute moron.

[jokeboy86]

There is absolutely no chance he was talking about his father and what happened. This is a case of mistaken identity. He should have looked it up, but this is very obviously an honest mistake.

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The ironic thing in all of this are the people who are calling for this guy's head, they themselves not knowing there was a good Kevin Porter who used to play in the league.

I don't understand why Lebron feels the need to react so quickly to things especially as a person with his stature. I mean wait a few days(hell a few hours) and then react because this has the potential now to make him look stupid and you know there are people(his most extreme haters) waiting to pounce on this. Curry is one of the other faces of the league and you don't see him do this like Lebron does.

[Ruzious]

To the people who say he should have done his research... obviously at that moment he thought he knew the facts!!! He just mis-remembered. It happens.

[Eyeamok]

He worked on that line pre-game. No way he thought of that on the spot. Guy did his pre-game research and came up with that…

When being prepared goes horribly wrong. And not all porters are related. How much extra research would it have taken to make sure these porters were related if it was a mistake?

And even if it was a mistake you have to believe that they broadcaster's nerves are shot right about now. He will probably be gun shy about saying anything on air now. He needs time off.

[Ruzious]

There is absolutely no chance he was talking about his father and what happened. This is a case of mistaken identity. He should have looked it up, but this is very obviously an honest mistake.

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The ironic thing in all of this are the people who are calling for this guy's head, they themselves not knowing there was a good Kevin Porter who used to play in the league.

I don't understand why Lebron feels the need to react so quickly to things especially as a person with his stature. I mean wait a few days(hell a few hours) and then react because this has the potential now to make him look stupid and you know there are people(his most extreme haters) waiting to pounce on this. Curry is one of the other faces of the league and you don't see him do this like Lebron does.

That was a purely idiotic response by Lebron, and I'm sure the many NBA folks who know Consor well will make him aware of his mistake. Having listened to Consor for many years, he's one of the more likable nice guys in the profession. He's also not clever enough to plan a mean-spirited line like that.

[Duffman100]

I have this new theory that Family Guy ruined the 'we can joke about absolutely anything' idea. And don't get me wrong, I loved Family Guy.. then they had a really disturbing domestic violence cut away and I just sort of stopped watching.

Yes, we can joke about some things. Other things, especially when you're a professional commentator should be left alone. Have some **** ing respect for people.

That being said, I really hope it was a mistaken identity thing.

[bebopdeluxe]

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

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

TTH, it's not worth it. Any one with an ounce of common sense should see that this comment would be insensitive any day, any era.

This. Anybody that would turn this into a slapfest on a message board should be put on ignore.

[Lunartic]

There is absolutely no chance he was talking about his father and what happened. This is a case of mistaken identity. He should have looked it up, but this is very obviously an honest mistake.

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The ironic thing in all of this are the people who are calling for this guy's head, they themselves not knowing there was a good Kevin Porter who used to play in the league.

Lebron is a complete idiot. Genius on the court but just a dunce elsewhere. Wants so desperately to lead the charge against "injustice" that he recklessly foments injustice.

No harm was done by the commentators, I'm sure if KPJ was hurt by them he can speak with them privately and I'm sure they'll apologize. It's just a harmless mistake. No one should be fired.
Sure they could have done more research but it's not worth losing your livelihood over.

[bebopdeluxe]

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?

There needs to be SOMETHING. This guy is likely making a nice six-figure paycheck. He needs to be held accountable for what he says on the air. If it turns out that it was just a lazy incorrect assumption that KPJ's dad was the Kevin Porter from the 70's, the fact that he made it such an authoritative reference - which turns out to have been BRUTAL - makes it something that needs to be addressed.

At the very least, a very public, top-of-the-next-telecast apology. Perhaps a low-key, one-game on-air suspension.

The guy is a pro. He should have known better.

[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?

There needs to be SOMETHING. This guy is likely making a nice six-figure paycheck. He needs to be held accountable for what he says on the air. If it turns out that it was just a lazy incorrect assumption that KPJ's dad was the Kevin Porter from the 70's, the fact that he made it such an authoritative reference - which turns out to have been BRUTAL - makes it something that needs to be addressed.

At the very least, a very public, top-of-the-next-telecast apology. Perhaps a low-key, one-game on-air suspension.

The guy is a pro. He should have known better.

I expect he will make that type of apology - voluntarily - if given a chance.

[Haldi]

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.

What? Why would anyone find it offensive? Batman is a work of fiction. It's not reality. Can't you differentiate between the two?

Really?? You mean to tell me the events that take place in that movie are not real?? Smh…