NBA fans have reacted to photos of Rachel Nichols partying hard with Joel Embiid and James Harden. Fans are going wild over the photos posted on Twitter.
According to TPS;
NBA Twitter has been going nuts after photos surfaced showing the former ESPN reporter at a club with Joel Embiid and James Harden.
Earlier this year, Nichols and ESPN reached a settlement to officially end her deal after private comments she made about diversity and Maria Taylor at the network were made public last year. Nichols had one year left on her contract.
Nichols was recorded on a private call, and could be heard saying that she felt as if Taylor was being promoted only because of ESPN’s poor diversity record.
“I wish Maria Taylor all the success in the world — she covers football, she covers basketball,” Nichols said in the leaked audio. “If you need to give her more things to do because you are feeling pressure about your crappy longtime record on diversity — which, by the way, I know personally from the female side of it — like, go for it. Just find it somewhere else. You are not going to find it from me or taking my thing away.”
Nichols was free to pursue other opportunities but she basically disappeared up until these photos were released.
She was reportedly making between $1.5 million to $2 million per year.
I will let you in on a little secret.
There is a reason that NBA players did not flock to Maria Taylor’s defense when she and Rachel Nichols’ beef went public. NBA players love Rachel Nichols and didn’t want to throw her under the bus. She is well respected throughout the league, so even though people called on them to dump on her, they chose not to.
She has been popping up at NBA events over the last year as she waits for her ESPN contract to run out. She has big supporters at the NBA, including Adam Silver, so don’t think she is suffering while collecting her last ESPN checks.
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