Paul Pierce had a very interesting exit from ESPN in April of 2021 but hasn’t let it bother him at all.
While at home one night, he was on a live video and had some exotic dancers in the background while he talked on live.
In April, Pierce was playing poker at a friend’s house in Los Angeles. There was drinking. And smoking. And strippers. And after a little too much drinking and smoking, Pierce decided to start an Instagram Live and, well, show off the strippers. He went on for a few minutes, riffing, he thought, for a couple hundred people. When he finished, he deleted it. He didn’t know IG Lives can be recorded (they can) and reposted (it was). Pierce went home that night thinking no one noticed. He woke up the next day and discovered everyone had.
“I was done with ESPN, anyway,” says Pierce between pulls of lemon mint. “It wasn’t a great fit. There’s a lot of stuff over there that you can’t say. And you have to talk about LeBron all the time.”
. “Come on, I didn’t do anything illegal,” says Pierce. “These motherf—–s in the Hall of Fame, some did [cocaine], f—ing battery. What the f— did I do? I was just having a good time. All the people coming after me, half you motherf—–s do the same s—. You’re just hiding it. And you all are married while you’re doing it. I’m divorced. I’m retired. I’m having fun.” And if Hall voters had held it against him? “Listen,” says Pierce, “if I didn’t make it with this class, it would be the biggest stiff job in Hall of Fame history.”
There was zero need to apologize.
Nothing illegal was happening, everything the ladies were doing was consensual, and he is right. This is nothing unusual in our society.
In this case, Paul was indeed telling THE TRUTH.
He is fine without the ESPN job and doesn’t really take the “incident” that caused his firing too seriously and neither do his friends.
The Truth celebrated his 45th birthday, and his friends obviously got him a cake. The pic they used for the cake was from the live with the exotic dancers and used the quote “Monica Come Through” on it, which is what he said in the live.
Hope he had a great birthday.
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