MEMPHIS — Warriors forward Jordan Bell retweeted a Twitter thread Thursday afternoon that appeared to shed new light on his one-game suspension.

The Chronicle has confirmed details of the thread, including that Bell was suspended for charging a candle to assistant coach Mike Brown’s hotel bill. It was a “pretty accurate account of how things went down,” a source close to Bell told The Chronicle of the thread, which was tweeted by Twitter user @MGRADS.

The charge to Brown’s room was supposed to be part of a prank, a source confirmed with The Chronicle. The thread alleges that “one of Golden State’s All-Stars tried to tell Brown it was just a joke & they’d pay for it but the team didn’t think it was funny.”

The bio of the Twitter account @MGRADS describes the user as a “basketball insider” located in Los Angeles. The user tweeted that last season, when Bell was a rookie, older players charged things like candy bars and sodas to his room. To get back at them, Bell started charging items to players’ rooms, and in Memphis this week, decided to charge a candle to Brown’s room.

According to a league source, it wasn’t the first time Bell had charged something to Brown’s room without Brown’s permission; the Warriors decided that the repeated nature of the transgression warranted a one-game suspension. The team declined to comment Thursday.

Bell, who wasn’t at FedEx Forum for Wednesday’s win over Memphis, joined the team for its postgame flight to Minneapolis and is expected to be available for Friday’s game against the Timberwolves.

Asked during his pregame media availability Wednesday about Bell’s suspension, Warriors head coach Steve Kerr said, “The (news) release was self-explanatory. He was suspended for tonight’s game for conduct detrimental to the team. Beyond that, it’s our business and nobody else’s. We move on.”

This week’s hotel-charge incident wasn’t the first time coaches had reason to question Bell’s maturity level. Bell, whose one-game suspension cost him $9,505, was late to some individual workouts last season. In late April, when Bell didn’t attend an optional practice after a playoff game in San Antonio, forward Andre Iguodala reminded Bell that optional workouts don’t apply to him.

Late in the Warriors’ Jan. 21 win over the Lakers, Bell got into a heated argument with Kerr during the team huddle. Asked at the time about the disagreement, Kerr said, “It was a total misinterpretation of something I said. We cleared it up.”

Bell will become a restricted free agent in July. To retain his rights, Golden State will have to make him a $1.8 million qualifying offer.

Friday’s game Who: Warriors (51-23) at Minnesota (33-41) When: 5 p.m. TV/Radio: NBCSBA/95.7

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Connor Letourneau is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: cletourneau@sfchronicle.com. Twitter: @Con_Chron