On Monday, former Lynx and Timberwolves announcer John Focke was suspended by his current employer, the Charlotte Hornets, for using a racist slur in a post of Twitter about the NBA playoff series between the Utah Jazz and Denver Nuggets.
He apologized and deleted the tweet.
Focke told the Charlotte Observer afterward that he mistyped a tweet in which he meant to write: “Shot making in this Jazz-Nuggets game is awesome! Murray and Mitchell going back and forth what a game!”
Scott Fowler of the Observer wrote on Tuesday: "Focke was using an iPhone to send this tweet.