{"id":233043,"date":"2021-08-26T09:54:03","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T14:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=233043"},"modified":"2021-08-26T12:09:47","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T17:09:47","slug":"espn-takes-rachel-nichols-off-nba-programming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=233043","title":{"rendered":"ESPN takes Rachel Nichols off NBA programming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-94995\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/NicholsRachel1-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/NicholsRachel1-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/NicholsRachel1-431x291.jpg 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/NicholsRachel1-259x175.jpg 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/NicholsRachel1.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 ESPN\u00a0 (CSi Cable 14) is canceling Rachel\u00a0 Nichols\u2019 show \u201cThe Jump\u201d and pulling her off NBA programming. ESPN will have a new daily NBA show that will premiere sometime before the regular season begins in October. The network will also revamp and find a host for the \u201cNBA Countdown\u201d show, given Maria Taylor\u2019s departure to NBC. Nichols has been an integral part of ESPN\u2019s NBA coverage since she returned to the network in 2016. She came under criticism after a New York Times report in July detailed critical comments she made about Taylor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 ESPN\u00a0 (CSi Cable 14) is canceling Rachel\u00a0 Nichols\u2019 show \u201cThe Jump\u201d and pulling her off NBA programming. ESPN will have a new daily NBA show that will premiere sometime before the regular season begins in October. The network will also revamp and find a host for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":94995,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=233043"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233071,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233043\/revisions\/233071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/94995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=233043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=233043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=233043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}