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It appears that a leaked audio criticizing a fellow ESPN host has a white sports reporter sidelined from the NBA Finals.

I don't give two fucks if she's a popular commentator, she's a fucking white extremist. If she does get fired out the cannon at ESPN, she'll find home over with Fox or Bally's Sports. They don't give a fuck who they hire. Obviously, that old geezer and that annoying far-right agitator known as the softball will help rehabilitate a washed up person's career.

So she was mired in controversy after an audio leak. She was mad dissing on Maria Taylor, a Black ESPN commentator who often assist in the NBA commentary.

Tonight, she will not be on the court when the Milwaukee Bucks take on the Phoenix Suns. The finals will determine who will be the NBA Champion.

She was a sideline reporter in the Orlando bubble for the NBA's delayed 2019-20 season. She replaced Doris Burke last year after Burke spent 11 years covering the NBA Finals from the sideline.

The replacement came after she made the remarks about diversity at ESPN. She basically dismissed Taylor's qualifications and said that the network's "diversity" is truly crappy.

"I wish Maria Taylor all the success in the world -- she covers football, she covers basketball. 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," said the commentator.

Maria Taylor knew the challenges ahead once she got the job at ESPN.

"I just want them to go somewhere else -- it's in my contract, by the way; this job is in my contract in writing."

The backlash was quick. It forced the commentator to apologize to her fans, the NBA and Taylor.

"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. 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."

Her half-hearted apology didn't go so well with ESPN. So for the time being, she'll continue to work on the network. She will continue to host The Jump and she has some backing from Kendrick Perkins and Richard Jefferson, two veteran NBA stars and her co-hosts.

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— mariah rose (@mariahcrose) July 5, 2021

Maria Taylor on her part didn't totally comment on the audio or the commentator.

She will continue to host NBA Countdown and be assisted with Jalen Rose and Jay Williams.

These days folks think an apology will erase the negative. Yeah, we'll move forward down the line, but accountability requires separation and mediation. It requires that individual to actually understand the plights of Black lawmakers, Black activists, Black athletes, Black entertainers and Black scholars. 

It kind of infuriates me that white conservatives often use Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in their retorts to their blatant racism. If King was alive today, they would demonize him like they've done Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.