On Monday afternoon, a few moments before he sent the tweet he will regret the rest of his life, Charlotte Hornets radio announcer John Focke was sitting at his kitchen table and half-watching the Utah-Denver playoff game.He wasn’t yet the radio guy who accidentally used the N-word on Twitter. He was just an obscure NBA play-by-play guy working on an offseason podcast.But then Focke pulled out his phone and made two errors in rapid succession.Two keystrokes, Focke said in our interview Tuesday. That’s all it took to change what would have been a forgettable tweet into one he calls a “horrible …
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