Rachel Nichols basketball-journalism career has taken a new bounce.
The longtime sports reporter is joining Showtime’s sports division, where she will work on the unit’s basketball content vertical as both a host and producer.
The basketball journalism career of Rachel Nichols has gained momentum. The veteran sports reporter will work as a host and producer for Showtime’s sports division on the basketball programming vertical.
Nichols, 48, and ESPN agreed to part ways after a leaked audio exposed her thoughts on Maria Taylor getting the NBA Finals job over her.
While it was already highly-speculated that ESPN had spied on Nichols, she confirmed that they had the audio for a year before leaking it online.
“I didn’t know that if you leave a particular app running in the background, that the line from my hotel room looking into my hotel room to Bristol would stay open,” Nichols said. “Unfortunately, that entire time, nobody back at ESPN told me that there was an open line to my hotel room and anyone who looked at the feed could see me.
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