07/05/2021 - Hour 2 - Rachel Nichols in Hot Water for Comments About Maria Taylor
The Odd Couple with Rob Parker & Kelvin Washington
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4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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It's the Odd Couple with Chris Broussard and Rob Parker who address the drama at ESPN after audio is leaked of Rachel Nichols talking about Maria Taylor getting a job ahead of Rachel as a diversity hire. 5X All-Star and Bucks TV Analyst Marques Johnson joins the guys to talk about the Bucks making it to the Finals for the first time since 1974. Plus, a 4th of July Edition of Shop Talk.
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| 0:57.0 | And we got a topic now that just demands that it be discussed. |
| 1:04.0 | I think both Rob and I generally feel like, you know, I don't really like talking about other media members. |
| 1:11.0 | You know, these are colleagues and, you know, I mean, we talk about, and I don't mean talking about negatively or positively. |
| 1:18.0 | Just in general. Yeah, yeah, it's not, we're not, we don't generally critique media. We critique athletes and things that go on with athletes. |
| 1:29.0 | But in this case, it's such a big story that what's going on over at our old network that it certainly bears a discussion from us. |
| 1:42.0 | And that is, I don't, on the rundown, it says Maria Taylor versus Rachel Nichols. |
| 1:50.0 | I don't want to, I don't want to want to cast it in that light. |
| 1:56.0 | But basically what's happened is, as you see, if you watch the other network, Maria Taylor is hosting their NBA coverage for the NBA finals and a lot of the big playoff games. |
| 2:08.0 | And Rachel Nichols host of the jump, which is in your round NBA show year round NBA show, she, she wanted that position five days a week. |
| 2:20.0 | Right, the jump is five days a week, but she wanted to do the NBA finals games, the host. |
| 2:26.0 | And she was caught on video and on tape talking about how basically implying that the reason Maria Taylor got the hosting job for the NBA countdown show was because ESPN was trying to make up for its poor record with diversity. |
| 2:52.0 | Maria Taylor's black Rachel Nichols obviously is white. |
| 2:57.0 | And so she, she basically said Maria Taylor only got that job because she was black. |
| 3:04.0 | And now, you know, that tape went throughout ESPN. |
| 3:09.0 | And now it's a huge story. |
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