Stephen Jackson Deleted Video Defending Rachel Nichols

Former NBA star Stephen Jackson deleted a video Saying ‘F–k ESPN’. The former NBA player is weighing in on the situation that’s unfolding between Rachel Nichols and Maria Taylor. Jackson took to Instagram to basically call out ESPN, and to defend Rachel Nichols over her comments she made about Maria.

“I wish Maria Taylor all the success in the world — she covers football, she covers basketball,” Rachel Nichols said in July 2020. “If you need to give her more things to do because you are feeling pressure about your crappy longtime record on diversity — which, by the way, I know personally from the female side of it — like, go for it. Just find it somewhere else. You are not going to find it from me or taking my thing away.”

Rachel Nichols: “If you need to give her more things to do because you are feeling pressure about your crappy longtime record on diversity — which, by the way, I know personally from the female side of it — like, go for it. Just find it somewhere else.” pic.twitter.com/aB5MifujuX

— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) July 4, 2021

Jackson posted then deleted the video:

“We all ramble and we say things when we’re frustrated, and Rachel did deserve that job, it’s just plain and simple, I’ve talked to Rachel and I know a lot of things she was saying out of frustrations because ESPN put her in a bad position and they even put Maria in a bad position by trying to give Maria a sympathy job, they were trying to make themselves look good because of the Black lives Matt and the George Floyd stuff was going on.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vvJt6f9p8U

He then followed up with a different tune:

“How many times as blask peope have we said that we was qualified, we know we qualified for the job but we didn’t get it because they gave it to the white person just because he was white, how mad were we because they were looking out for their own? How made were we when you know you deserved the job and they just give to a white person just because they’re white? We’ve dealing with that our whole life and that pissed us off, we ain’t getting recorded but we say shit too behind closed doors. I get it why Rachel mad, Rachel never showed me any signs of being racist but I would be mad too if I worked my whole life for a job and they would give to a white dude just cause Donald Trump is in office”

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Jackson should learn not to weigh in sometimes. It’s kind of his brand, but still, not a good look.

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