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ESPN axes Rachel Nichols NBA Finals sideline reporting gig hours ahead of tonight's series opener after she accidentally recorded herself saying black colleague got assignment she wanted because of 'diversity'
UK Daily Mail ^ | July 06 2021 | ARIEL ZILBER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM and HARRIET ALEXANDER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM and ALEX RASKIN SPORTS NEWS E

Posted on 07/06/2021 2:15:42 PM PDT by knighthawk

ESPN has pulled Rachel Nichols off of her sideline reporting gig for the NBA Finals ahead of tonight's series opener after the revelation of a 2020 bombshell video in which she suggested African-American colleague Maria Taylor was given a particular studio assignment to promote diversity.

The conversation, revealed on Sunday by The New York Times, was recorded by an unknown party during the 2020 NBA season restart at the league’s bubble in Florida when Nichols was apparently unaware a camera in her hotel room was still attached to a live microphone following a satellite broadcast.

Nichols will continue to host her show, The Jump, but will be replaced by Malika Andrews on the sidelines. Game 1 of the NBA Finals will air on ABC tonight from Phoenix, where the Western Conference-champion Suns will host the Eastern Conference winners, the Milwaukee Bucks. (Both ESPN and ABC are owned by The Walt Disney Company)

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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KEYWORDS: espn; malikaandrews; mariataylor; nba; rachelnichols; speaktruthtopower; truthtopower
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1 posted on 07/06/2021 2:15:42 PM PDT by knighthawk
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To: knighthawk

Well, since most of the audience is black, it kinda makes sense.


2 posted on 07/06/2021 2:18:55 PM PDT by skinndogNN
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To: knighthawk

She should know better than to tell the truth.


3 posted on 07/06/2021 2:19:09 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (I voted for prosperity, and I got poverty.)
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To: knighthawk

Welcome to the party, pal.


4 posted on 07/06/2021 2:20:51 PM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken.)
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To: knighthawk

Maria Taylor actually knows the game. Question should be, How did Rachel Nichols ever get her job at ESPN?


5 posted on 07/06/2021 2:21:23 PM PDT by WASCWatch ( WASC)
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To: knighthawk

So many big networks no longer believe in second chances or extra training. Years ago, when I managed a Care Home, I could not just fire somebody because they screwed up one time. I was forced by regulation to first give them a write up, then a face to face counseling with probation, re-training was ‘offered’, meaning they had to do it.
Then, if they were still screwing up, I could finally give them The Chop!


6 posted on 07/06/2021 2:21:26 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: knighthawk

Who cares what ESPN does anymore? They are a waste of time and effort.


7 posted on 07/06/2021 2:22:01 PM PDT by HotHunt
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To: knighthawk

So first a black reporterette gets the job she wants, and then a black woman get the sideline job she has. She might want to start working on her tan, and maybe get a weave or cornrows... Or start working on her resume.


8 posted on 07/06/2021 2:22:06 PM PDT by ETCM
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To: knighthawk
let me get this straight, she got her job because vagina... and doesn't know how this all works???
9 posted on 07/06/2021 2:22:36 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. P144:1)
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To: knighthawk

“Graduate” director Mike Nichols’ daughter-in-law...


10 posted on 07/06/2021 2:23:24 PM PDT by irishjuggler
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To: knighthawk

Rachel gets her gig because she’s a girl and now she wants to deny some other getting it because she’s black. Karma, man...


11 posted on 07/06/2021 2:24:27 PM PDT by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: knighthawk

What did they ax her?


12 posted on 07/06/2021 2:25:29 PM PDT by deweyfrank (Nobody's Perfect )
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To: EvilCapitalist
"She should know better than to tell the truth.

In her defense she thought her virtue signaling account had enough credit to save her from the woke leftist mob.

White leftists do not understand that they are cementing their own second class citizenship brick-by-virtue-signaling-brick.

13 posted on 07/06/2021 2:26:56 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck ( COVID lockdowns are the Establishment's attack on the middle class and our Republic )
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To: Chode

Rats eating other rats.

Doesn’t bother me at all.


14 posted on 07/06/2021 2:27:08 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (I love my country. It’s my government that I hate.)
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To: knighthawk

They also just cancelled her afternoon show the jump about an hour ago…she is gone and will probably sit out whatever is left in her contract at home and to think she was a major “woke” lefty reap what you sow Rachel


15 posted on 07/06/2021 2:28:23 PM PDT by Lod881019
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To: knighthawk

What’s the point of sideline reporters again?


16 posted on 07/06/2021 2:31:10 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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But it’s O.K. for the chicago mayor to say she won’t allow anyone but black journalists to interview her? Really - that’s O.K. to say? Racism is alive and well in America.


17 posted on 07/06/2021 2:31:52 PM PDT by Son-Joshua (son-joshua)
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To: knighthawk

Now observing what is true out loud is a crime.


18 posted on 07/06/2021 2:33:46 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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To: Lod881019

love it when they eat their own!!


19 posted on 07/06/2021 2:33:58 PM PDT by Levy78
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To: dfwgator

“What’s the point of sideline reporters again?”

Mostly eye candy; at least that’s true in the SEC Network.


20 posted on 07/06/2021 2:40:16 PM PDT by riverdawg (Wells Fargo is my bank and I have no complaints.)
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