Rachel Nichols removed from NBA Finals sidelines, replaced by Malika Andrews

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

Adam Silver is a jew, Rachel NIchols is a jew...of course he would take up for her.

He isn't entirely wrong in his premise. You can't have co-workers under the same umbrella beefing like that for a year with no solution to the problem whatsoever. The problem should have been solved a year ago and right after it happened.

That's why I think he was pissed about it and didn't know or else he would have stepped in and had ESPN resolve the situation as it's completely taken away attention from the Finals. Couple that with the fact that now the attention is on Taylor and her contract expiring on the 20th and what will happen with that.

 

[Supa]

Nichols was not going to get fired nor get removed from NBA coverage and you'd be lying if you thought otherwise. Removing Taylor from NBA coverage would have been viewed as a demotion and pissed people off even more. Therefore, the head people in charge should have tried engaging in conflict resolution instead of following the mantra of "lets keep them separated" which was obviously not going to work.

Even now, Nichols and Taylor are not going to be able to exist under the ESPN NBA umbrella, so one has to go and it's likely not going to be Nichols. Hell, even Silver basically took up for Nichols and blamed ESPN for not actually solving the situation, so that tells you that she isn't going anywhere.

So either Taylor has to leave (ESPN) or she's not gonna have to be the one to leave NBA coverage, which will make matters even worse than they are now.

Again, Rachel Nichols caused the issue so there's no meeting to be had and there's nothing that'll rectify the situation if they won't give homegirl the boot. If ESPN wants to accept a toxic work environment then that's their decision. The onus isn't on Maria to do anything when she's the victim..

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

Again, Rachel Nichols caused the issue so there's no meeting to be had and there's nothing that'll rectify the situation if they won't give homegirl the boot. If ESPN wants to accept a toxic work environment then that's their decision. The onus isn't on Maria to do anything when she's the victim..

Breh.... don't sit here and pretend that conflict resolution meetings involving employee beefs don't take place within a company and you're lying if you say otherwise

If the company says both of y'all need to show up at that meeting, then what do you think will end up happening? Both parties will show up at that meeting even if they don't want to.

 

[Paper Boi]

Go to 1:08

People making a big deal out of nothing. Star player trying not to bring attention to an injury, he even smirked at the end.

he was trying to be funny lol. anyone who thinks otherwise is weirdo looking for shyt that’s not there.

 

[Supa]

Breh.... don't sit here and pretend that conflict resolution meetings involving employee beefs don't take place within a company and you're lying if you say otherwise

If the company says both of y'all need to show up at that meeting, then what do you think will end up happening? Both parties will show up at that meeting even if they don't want to.

Did they call a conflict resolution meeting when Beadle got SAS suspended?

Call your colleague a diversity hire and think a meeting will resolve things. She offended every black person or minority on the building who's not tapdancing. You're going to need all those people in the room too not just Maria. This is not just a one on one issue.

They're not going to get along and act like nothing happened. They don't have to be on the same show or work directly together so ESPN can keep them separate if need be.

Let's be real though, a less connected employee would have gotten disciplined if not canned. Anyone got any numbers to support Rachel's place with the Network? We know SAS brings ratings but I've never heard how The Jump performs.

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

Did they call a conflict resolution meeting when Beadle got SAS suspended?

Call your colleague a diversity hire and think a meeting will resolve things. She offended every black person or minority on the building who's not tapdancing. You're going to need all those people in the room too not just Maria. This is not just a one on one issue.

They're not going to get along and act like nothing happened. They don't have to be on the same show or work directly together so ESPN can keep them separate if need be.

Let's be real though, a less connected employee would have gotten disciplined if not canned. Anyone got any numbers to support Rachel's place with the Network? We know SAS brings ratings but I've never heard how The Jump performs.

That SAS comment about domestic violence was trash and deserved criticism and even you know that breh. It's not even the same situation, so don't try and use it as an example. Other ESPN talent used to talk shyt about Skip Bayless on Twitter about his trash takes all the time, did that require an all employee meeting? No, because it wasn't a situation that required it.

Taylor and Nichols literally cover the same sport and work directly with each other along with the other ESPN sideline women, so they literally have no other choice but to cross paths even if they don't want to. They literally became collateral damage in the beef between those two women.

ESPN/Disney literally should have called Taylor/Nichols in for a conflict resolution meeting and then called everyone in to Bristol and addressed the situation there. Don't forget that 99.99% of ESPN talent don't live nor work near the Bristol area, so you'd legit have to call them all in to do a meeting. That's what they should have done and didn't do hence the outrage about the situation and deservedly so.

Those The Jump numbers are trash, but so are the other talk shows that ESPN does outside of First Take.

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

Quote the man who's been wrong about everything

You don't want tension remove the individual who created it.

I got over 100,000 daps including daps in this thread so I must be right about something

 

[Supa]

That SAS comment about domestic violence was trash and deserved criticism and even you know that breh. It's not even the same situation, so don't try and use it as an example. Other ESPN talent used to talk shyt about Skip Bayless on Twitter about his trash takes all the time, did that require an all employee meeting? No, because it wasn't a situation that required it.

Taylor and Nichols literally cover the same sport and work directly with each other along with the other ESPN sideline women, so they literally have no other choice but to cross paths even if they don't want to. They literally became collateral damage in the beef between those two women.

ESPN/Disney literally should have called Taylor/Nichols in for a conflict resolution meeting and then called everyone in to Bristol and addressed the situation there. Don't forget that 99.99% of ESPN talent don't live nor work near the Bristol area, so you'd legit have to call them all in to do a meeting. That's what they should have done and didn't do hence the outrage about the situation and deservedly so.

Those The Jump numbers are trash, but so are the other talk shows that ESPN does outside of First Take.

Beadle misquoted him.

Again, a meeting would solve nothing. Maria is not letting that slide nor would a large number of ESPN employees. They're basically saying we'll deal with a toxic environment for her remaining tenure because we're not letting go a Rachel. We'll let Maria walk because of Rachel.

The right thing to do isn't to call a meeting it's to show Rachel the door.

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

Beadle misquoted him.

Again, a meeting would solve nothing. Maria is not letting that slide nor would a large number of ESPN employees. They're basically saying we'll deal with a toxic environment for her remaining tenure because we're not letting go a Rachel. We'll let Maria walk because of Rachel.

The right thing to do isn't to call a meeting it's to show Rachel the door.

It doesn't matter whether the meeting would have solved nothing or not. ESPN/Disney has a duty and obligation to address the situation with Nichols and Taylor along with the rest of the ESPN employees. That's how controversy in the workplace works. I know that because because my workplace has a situation going on right now with co-worker beef and we've had meetings about the situation and what transpired. Again, that's on Disney/ESPN for allowing the situation to fester and not actually come up with a viable solution.

The right thing to do is show Rachel the door, but they obviously are not going to do that judging by the fact that they still were going to give her the Finals sideline gig until the story broke. Also, the fact that she was back on The Jump today.

 

[Supa]

It doesn't matter whether the meeting would have solved nothing or not. ESPN/Disney has a duty and obligation to address the situation with Nichols and Taylor along with the rest of the ESPN employees. That's how controversy in the workplace works. I know that because because my workplace has a situation going on right now with co-worker beef and we've had meetings about the situation and what transpired. Again, that's on Disney/ESPN for allowing the situation to fester and not actually come up with a viable solution.

The right thing to do is show Rachel the door, but they obviously are not going to do that judging by the fact that they still were going to give her the Finals sideline gig until the story broke. Also, the fact that she was back on The Jump today.

Why didn't they fire her?

Conflict involves two sides. This is one person attacking another. You don't resolve conflict with a victim you discipline the aggressor.

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

Why didn't they fire her?

Conflict involves two sides. This is one person attacking another. You don't resolve conflict with a victim you discipline the aggressor.

1. She's related to Diane Sawyer.

2. She has Klutch connections hence who she was having the conversation with.

3. She's a high level woman employee at the company hence why she gets the high profile gigs and kept doing so even after the incident.

4. They were worried that she'd sue and didn't want to take the chances of pissing her off. That would explain the no punishment as they had to have known that the story was eventually going to leak out. They obviously don't care anyways or else they would have been met Taylor's asking price to rectify the situation.

Contract negotiations at ESPN usually don't come to the last minute like this one.

 

[FcKuPaYmE]

Nah I'm reading more than words here, his energy was all the way off with her. He knew what he was doing, he knew what that moment meant for her yet he went out of his way to make that interview difficult.

Like I said, cant get on code for shyt. It ain't just CP0, alot of these "black athletes" have been acting funny when it comes to this situation. Its fukking weird

You stupid as fukk. CP3 is pro black as hell. nikka the same way in all his interviews. Talmbout his energy was off.

 

[Apprentice]

Nah I'm reading more than words here, his energy was all the way off with her. He knew what he was doing, he knew what that moment meant for her yet he went out of his way to make that interview difficult.

Like I said, cant get on code for shyt. It ain't just CP0, alot of these "black athletes" have been acting funny when it comes to this situation. Its fukking weird

Dap fishing nonsense

 

[Supa]

1. She's related to Diane Sawyer.

2. She has Klutch connections hence who she was having the conversation with.

3. She's a high level woman employee at the company hence why she gets the high profile gigs and kept doing so even after the incident.

This is all that matters.

 

[philmonroe]

Dap fishing nonsense

Dudes always talking silly stuff from the sidelines. All this stupid code talk is online silly dudes talk. Folks got neighbors they don't even talk to talking about some universal code alllllll blacks supposed to adhere to FOH.