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ESPN president Jimmy Pitaro’s memo raises more questions about the Rachel Nichols/Maria Taylor NBA Countdown timeline
"We respect and acknowledge there are a variety of feelings about what happened and the actions we took. The details of what took place last year are confidential, nuanced and complicated personnel matters."
Maria Taylor-Rachel Nichols saga has ESPN’s treatment of Black employees under scrutiny
"There has not been one Black person that I can think of right now that has not gone through hell at ESPN."
With The Jump cancelled today, ESPN may be heading down a road without Rachel Nichols and Maria Taylor
Malika Andrews to serve as NBA Finals sideline reporter for ESPN/ABC, the role Rachel Nichols held last year
Nichols served as the sideline reporter for this broadcast team during last year's Finals and this year's Western Conference Finals, as well as for most regular-season broadcasts they did this season (including their Christmas Day game).
Rachel Nichols’ harmful comments are a reminder to treat your African American coworkers better
Implicitly or explicitly saying someone got a job because of their skin color is obviously wrong, but also harmful.
Rachel Nichols apologizes on-air for comments about Maria Taylor
This certainly doesn't feel like the end of the conversation.
Actor Rachel Nichols woke up to hundreds of critical tweets meant for ESPN’s Rachel Nichols
"I woke up to HUNDREDS of Tweets YELLING AT ME and I had no idea what was happening!"
Fallout from Rachel Nichols’ 2020 Maria Taylor comments led to ESPN’s NBA Countdown team discussing a boycott this May
On the first day of this year's playoffs, the NBA Countdown cast discussed not appearing on that show over restrictions on reporter interviews that were seen to promote Rachel Nichols, the latest fallout from Nichols' 2020 call where she offered criticisms of Maria Taylor.
Richard Jefferson to Kyrie Irving: “We in the media are not creating the clickbait. You and Kevin Durant are creating the clickbait.”
"You went on Kevin Durant's podcast, and you were saying these things. So we in the media are not creating the clickbait. You and Kevin Durant are creating the clickbait."
ESPN condemns “indefensible” leak of video of Rachel Nichols’ private conversation in her hotel room
An ESPN employee took cellphone recordings of a video feed from Rachel Nichols' hotel room that was running without her knowledge while she was on the phone. Someone then leaked some of those recordings.
ESPN is reportedly negotiating a buyout with Michelle Beadle, and may wind up reducing NBA Countdown overall
In addition to Countdown personnel changes, the show may wind up being less prominent overall, with The Jump potentially replacing it ahead of Saturday games.
NBA free agency will dominate ESPN next week with special episodes of ‘Get Up’ and ‘The Jump’
ESPN will be all over the NBA free agency coverage.
