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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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To: knighthawk

What is sort of funny about this is Rachel Nichols is a white totally woke ESPN reporter, now she’s not so woke since she’s been shoved aside for a black reporter...

In the world of Rachel Nichols, the woke culture is great so long as I’m not a victim of it....

She needs to wake up and realize she’s been cancelled for being white.


21 posted on 07/06/2021 2:43:09 PM PDT by srmanuel (`)
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To: knighthawk

There are some truths you must NEVER say, or lose your job. Those truths are the truest truths and need to be broadcast from every rooftop.


22 posted on 07/06/2021 2:45:24 PM PDT by I want the USA back (The government under democrats is a criminal enterprise.)
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To: Chode

Hi.

I hope you are doing well.

“she got her job because vagina... and doesn’t know how this all works???”

Liberals, progressives, socialists etc have what’s called, selective amnesia. Chose any topic and what they said or did previously goes out the window. Must be a genetic defect.

5.56mm


23 posted on 07/06/2021 2:46:50 PM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho need to go.)
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To: knighthawk

Typical Sideline Reporter/

“I talked to coach ________ at halftime and he said, ‘We have to play better if we want to win.’ Back to you, Chuck!”


24 posted on 07/06/2021 2:47:15 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: knighthawk

She had that affirmative action gig commenting on professional basketball all lined up. And then an even more affirmative action candidate came along! Not fair!


25 posted on 07/06/2021 2:50:37 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: dfwgator

Yep. Same stupid stuff all the way from high school to the pros. Other than one of the WH paid liar press conferences, a sports interview has got to be the most ignorant broadcast idiocy.


26 posted on 07/06/2021 2:53:01 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Corrupt Slow Joe Biden is the Bolshevik sock puppet.)
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To: Responsibility2nd


27 posted on 07/06/2021 2:53:47 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: M Kehoe

thx...

yes, funny how that works isn’t it!


28 posted on 07/06/2021 2:55:11 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: dfwgator
What’s the point of sideline reporters again?

To create jobs for women in telecasts of men's sporting events.

29 posted on 07/06/2021 2:57:16 PM PDT by Will88 (The only people opposing voter ID are those benefiting from voter fraud.)
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To: knighthawk

“The conversation, revealed on Sunday by The New York Times, was recorded by an unknown party during the 2020 NBA season restart”


Its funny- when people secretly record these conversations and they are reported on by the NYSlimes, people lose their jobs.

Yet when James OKeefe and Project Veritas has videos and recordings of people in the media targeting conservatives or other unseemly behavior there’s a big shoulder shrug... shocked i tell you- shocked...


30 posted on 07/06/2021 3:05:41 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: knighthawk
Q: What did Nichols say when they did this?

A: Don't axe me!

31 posted on 07/06/2021 3:06:02 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: EvilCapitalist

She should know better than to tell the truth.
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The major company I work for is doing the same. Instead of hiring the most qualified and experienced, they hiring and promoting the least qualified and least experienced in the name of diversity. It will bite them viciously in their butt….I will not be around as retirement is close, Thank God.


32 posted on 07/06/2021 3:07:03 PM PDT by delta7
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To: deweyfrank

“Don’t axe me!”


33 posted on 07/06/2021 3:07:12 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: knighthawk

In a world of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.


34 posted on 07/06/2021 3:07:33 PM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: HotHunt

ESPN is totally poitical now just like everything else in America. Jamelle Hill was the worst offender of being outraged by everything. Glad she got fired.


35 posted on 07/06/2021 3:15:21 PM PDT by Metrobank
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To: SteveH

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37 posted on 07/06/2021 3:29:51 PM PDT by deport ( )
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To: deport

woops, i reported it to abuse in case it is a violation

thanks


38 posted on 07/06/2021 3:36:46 PM PDT by SteveH
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To: knighthawk

eat it, wokester


39 posted on 07/06/2021 3:40:14 PM PDT by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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To: knighthawk

What I find a little funny is how little I’ve missed sports. Ok watching tour de France just now but aside from that, don’t watch, don’t care, no biggie.


40 posted on 07/06/2021 3:40:24 PM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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