Former NBA player Stephen Jackson defended ESPN’s Rachel Nichols after she said the sports network pulled an offer to host the 2020 NBA Finals because she is white.
Nichols told LeBron James PR advisor Adam Mendelsohn in July of last year that ESPN reneged on an offer for her to host the finals and instead gave the job to ESPN reporter Maria Taylor, who is black, for “diversity.” Nichols’ comments, recorded on a hot mic, appeared in an article Sunday in The New York Times.
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