Say Goodbye to those ESPN Personalities Ya'll Love So Much: Official ESPN Layoffs Thread

[Rigby.]

I think jalen rose was a dead man walking and the fact espn has jj reddikk who has a podcast amd show which is content and perkins and richard jefferson they probably don't understand why pay jalen

One of these heads said you gotta have a real social media presence to survive out here…

 

[iamduval]

I thought the Jalen and jacoby show was awesome. Should have seen this coming when they let Jacob go

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

wow Disney struggling out here... everyone going

 

[Joe Sixpack]

One of these heads said you gotta have a real social media presence to survive out here…

Thats’s why Stephen A is still here

He yells and screams and is wild corny but these square ass white people think he’s cool as shyt

 

[Legal]

Is their plan really just to pay massive personalities a grip but have basically no one else? I wanted them to do capitulation, but I dunno if this is the best way to go about that

It apparently is.

I think they're about to find out in the worst way that Pat McAfee doesn't have the level of universal appeal they think he does, though.

 

[who_better_than_me]

Jeff Van Gundu let go

 

[who_better_than_me]

 

[Elim Garak]

Van Gundy one of the only entertaining NBA personalities. If I'm being honest I only liked Jalen earlier on, he was wack after getting at Skip because he turned his personality down imo.

 

[mozichrome]

tough times at ESPN right now. u might look up and see 1 of your buddies done got the axe or something
them group chats must be hell right now

 

[Piff Perkins]

Van Gundy one of the only entertaining NBA personalities. If I'm being honest I only liked Jalen earlier on, he was wack after getting at Skip because he turned his personality down imo.

Jalen was one of the last former players who got into the media game without any training. He didn't care about going viral, making insane hot takes, etc. Just was a cool dude who added some reality to conversations, whether it was the podcast or on air. Then at some point he completely switched up and because "one of them" like all the other former players acting like complete idiots saying dumb shyt.

 

[FreshFromATL]

TNT been shytting on ESPN for years now when it comes to the NBA. Hopefully this mean NBC or CBS bout to get a cut of that NBA pie.

 

[thernbroom]

If I'm Key and ESPN still owes me 3 years of paychecks, I'm pulling a Jaws and Beadle and sitting out the remainder of that deal.

Lol they just pay you the full amount

 

[Lefty Gunz]

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

Lol they just pay you the full amount

I'm assuming that it will still be the same as the last time around, but they'll pay out the remainder of your contract as long as you don't get a job elsewhere although theirs wiggle room in side projects you can take. It's why you never Jaws for all those years and why Beadle was never in a rush to get a job and doing everything else but working.

 

[threattonature]

Is their plan really just to pay massive personalities a grip but have basically no one else? I wanted them to do capitulation, but I dunno if this is the best way to go about that

I fully understood them getting rid of the part timers that seemed to be on payroll but appeared on air like once or twice a week on a Sportscenter or Get Up drop in. But I'm confused at them getting rid of the mainstays. I think they're trying to get everybody on that Stephen A schedule where they do their own shows and rotate on everybody else's show. It's fukked up optics to pay Pat McAfee all that money and then start cutting so many people like this though. That show better be a runaway hit.