Rachel Nichols Was Caught Calling Maria Taylor A Diversity Hire, Twitter Is Frying The Salty Karen & ESPN

July 4, 2021

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Rachel Nichols is a playa hater of the racial variety. The ESPN analyst, who is white, was caught disparaging her own peer Maria Taylor, on video and claiming the latter’s promotion was due to her ethnicity.

The New York Times detailed the controversy and its effect on ESPN. Apparently, the network didn’t even reprimand Nichols after she made the comments, over a year ago. The stars of NBA Countdown were fed up with the networks waffling on the issue and were considering not doing the show.

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