'It's unfortunate that two women are pitted against each other': NBA Commissioner Adam Silver wades into ESPN race scandal after Rachel Nichols is pulled from NBA finals duty
ESPN/ABC has pulled Rachel Nichols off her sideline reporting gig for the upcoming NBA Finals between the Phoenix Suns and the Milwaukee Bucks
Nichols has been criticized since the revelation of a 2020 secretly recorded video in which she made disparaging comments about colleague Maria Taylor
Nichols is heard saying on the video that Taylor, who is black, was promoted to a studio role because of the network's poor history with diversity