NBA reporter Rachel Nichols is in hot water after comments regarding ESPN's coverage of the 2020 NBA Finals came to light. In a video recorded last year, Nichols told Adam Mendelsohn – a longtime LeBron James adviser – that she felt Maria Taylor, who is Black, was chosen to host pre- and post-game NBA finals coverage because the network was "feeling pressure" about on-air racial diversity. “If you need to give (Taylor) 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," Nichols said. "Just find it somewhere else. You are not going to find it from me or taking my thing away.” Nichols will not be the sideline reporter for the upcoming 2021 finals, but will continue hosting her daily NBA show, "The Jump."