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Video Leaks Of Rachel Nichols Making Racist Remarks Toward Fellow ESPN Colleague Maria Taylor 

Rachel Nichols, the white ESPN telecaster who has the organization's program "The Jump," was gotten on a "hot camera" blaming her manager in 2020 for giving Maria Taylor the work as host of the program "NBA Countdown" since she is Black. 안전놀이터

"I wish Maria Taylor all the achievement on the planet — she covers football, she covers b-ball," Nichols said last July while isolating in an Orlando lodging in anticipation of the NBA's continued air pocket season. She was talking on the telephone with Adam Mendelsohn, a consultant and representative of Lakers' star LeBron James, and who Nichols supposedly called a companion. "On the off chance that you need to give her more activities since you are feeling pressure about your awful long-term record on variety — which, incidentally, I know actually from its female side — like, put it all on the line. Simply discover it elsewhere. You won't discover it from me or removing my thing." 

Nichols had a camera, which was snared to record back to ESPN's central command in Bristol, Conn., in her room to keep facilitating "The Jump" while isolating in her lodging. Most at the organization trusted Nichols didn't close off the camera appropriately, as per the Times. 

Nichols over the clasp likewise said facilitating the NBA pregame show was written in her agreement. 

ESPN's Rachel Nichols (Richard Shotwell/Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP) 

The clasp was found and shared all through ESPN last year, which started shock through the organization, yet didn't bring about discipline for Nichols. 

"I was shaken that an individual representative would do this, and that different representatives, including a portion of those inside the NBA project, had no regret about passing around a covert agent video of a female colleague alone in her lodging," Nichols said. "I would not the slightest bit propose that the manner in which the remarks became exposed should give a free give them being frightful to others." 

In the end, Taylor possibly consented to show up on NBA Countdown if Nichols didn't. Yet, ESPN executives got around it by masterminding pre-taped appearances for Nichols, a steady sensitive area for the organization's NBA shows. 

"I won't consider myself a casualty, however I unquestionably have felt misled and I don't feel like my grumblings have been viewed appropriately," Taylor wrote in an email, gained by The Times, to ESPN leaders after she learned of the video last year. "Truth be told, the first occasion when I have heard from HR after 2 occurrences of racial harshness was to inquire as to whether I released Rachel's tape to the media. I could never do that. ... Basically being a forward looking person of color at this organization has incurred significant damage actually and intellectually." 

Taylor and ESPN have been in exchanges over a reestablished contract, as per numerous reports, as her present one terminates soon. 

Nichols told the Times she has fruitlessly attempted to apologize to Taylor since the occurrence: "My own expectations in that discussion, and the assessment of those in control at ESPN, are not the amount of what makes a difference here — assuming Maria felt the discussion was disturbing, it was, and I was the reason for that for her. ... Maria has decided not to react to these offers, which is totally reasonable and a choice I regard."