Has Rachel Nichols been fired by ESPN?

ESPN'S Rachel Nichols is an American broadcaster.

Nichols had made headlines after her "racist" comments about her ESPN colleague, Maria Taylor, went viral and she continues to suffer the consequences.

Has Rachel Nichols been fired by ESPN?

Nichols, 47, recently apologized on-air for her comments about Taylor.

As of July 6, 2021, Nichols had not been let go by the company but was pulled from reporting the 2021 NBA Finals and replaced by Malika Andrews following her comments.

Over a month later, ESPN announced that Nichols will be removed from NBA coverage and her weekday show "The Jump" has been cancelled.

David Roberts, ESPN's senior vice president of production, told CNN Business on August 25, 2021, that bother sides  "mutually agreed that this approach regarding our NBA coverage was best for all concerned."

Adding: "Rachel is an excellent reporter, host and journalist, and we thank her for her many contributions to our NBA content."

While it was revealed that she would be pulled from NBA coverage, her status with the network is still unknown.

What did Rachel Nichols say about Maria Taylor?

In a leaked video from July 2020 in the NBA bubble, Nichols was heard talking to Adam Mendelsohn, an adviser to LeBron James, about her feelings of Taylor getting the NBA Finals hosting gig over her.

Nichols, who is white, was complaining that Taylor, who is black, got the job because of what she believes are "diversity" reasons.

“I wish Maria Taylor all the success in the world — she covers football, she covers basketball,” Nichols said in the clip.

“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."

“I just want them to go somewhere else — it’s in my contract, by the way; this job is in my contract in writing,” she continued.

While Taylor has not comment on the released clip, Nichols soon apologized on Monday July 5, live on ESPN.

“So the first thing they teach you in journalism school is don’t be the story. And I don’t plan to break that rule today or distract from a fantastic Finals,” Nichols said on The Jump on ESPN 2.

“But I also don’t want to let this moment pass without saying how much I respect, how much I value our colleagues here at ESPN. How deeply, deeply sorry I am for disappointing those I hurt, particularly Maria Taylor, and how grateful I am to be part of this outstanding team.”

Many of her ESPN colleagues were outraged by the comments and according to The Times, one even said that Nichols not getting punished, at the time, over her remarks was “an active source of pain.”

Taylor has since departed from ESPN despite a $3 million offer.

Who is Rachel Nichols?

Nichols is a sports broadcaster, reporter, and anchor for ESPN.

She hosted the NBA discussion show, The Jump, and covered stories from the NBA.

In 1995, she graduated with a degree in Journalism from Northwestern University.

Before her time with ESPN, she worked for the Washington Post and the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel.