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Clay Travis Has Some Words For Rachel Nichols After The ESPN News: ‘You Weren’t Woke Enough’

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Proud conservative Clay Travis has no problem lashing out at ESPN and their left-leaning programming. And he wasn’t going to hold back on Rachel Nichols after it was announced that she was getting the boot from her TV show “NBA The Jump”, as well as being removed from all her NBA reporting duties.

Travis lamented the fact that Nichols has gone on the record as one of the ‘woke’ reporters “and still got canceled”.

“The woke police finding another victim,” commented OutKick’s Clay Travis, reflecting on the tragic path that fooled Nichols into wokeism and out of a job. “Cancel culture has come for ESPN’s own red-haired NBA star, Rachel Nichols. She is no more, she will cease to exist on ESPN.”

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Clay Travis had much, much more to say about Rachel Nichols and ESPN.

“In fact, she lectured America on how brave the NBA was when they pulled their All-Star game out of Charlotte, North Carolina over a bathroom bill that was alleged to target transgender individuals even while the NBA continued to play basketball all around the world in countries such as China which have repressive human rights regimes. That hypocrisy was never addressed, it was never analyzed. And this is where people who embrace wokeism ultimately go. You are at some point in time going to be cancelled if you are not woke enough and you work in sports. You have two options — say nothing or get fired.”

Clay Travis adds, “ESPN is covering a tiny subset of the sports audience that believes in woke sports.”

“Even as the NBA’s overall ratings collapsed, Rachel Nichols made the decision to defend the NBA and all of the woke idiocy that that league embraced. In fact, she lectured America on how great the NBA was when they pulled their All-Star Game out of Charlotte, North Carolina over a bathroom bill that was alleged to target transgender individuals. Even while the NBA continued to play basketball all around the world in countries such as China, which have a repressive human rights regime. …

“The lesson is clear: you’re either woke or you’re fired. You better keep your mouth shut unless you agree with far left-wing politics infiltrating sports.”

I mean, sure. We can go with Clay Travis’ interpretation of what happened to Rachel Nichols. But no where in his powerful rant did he mention the fact that Nichols had a leaked phone call where she was heard calling out ESPN for giving Maria Taylor NBA assignments because of the color of her skin.

It’s now being reported that ESPN might continue to pay Nichols while leaving her out of all of their content.

I think it’s safe to say that she won’t have an opportunity with Clay Travis’s Outkick network.

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