Rachel Nichols made her first appearance on Showtime since joining the network, and she immediately addressed what happened at ESPN.
Nichols and ESPN parted ways last year after comments surfaced of her criticizing the network’s diversity history. Nichols had been reassigned to sideline reporter in favor of Maria Taylor as NBA Finals host in 2020.
“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,” Nichols said to Adam Mendelsohn, an advisor to athletes including LeBron James, in 2020, according to the New York Times. “Just find it somewhere else.”
