Rachel Nichols (Photo by Cassy Athena/Getty Images)
While the NBA world deservedly bashes ESPN reporter Rachel Nichols for her remarks on diversity, there should be a moment for all fans, the Houston Rockets included, to collectively reflect on what they can do better to promote diversity in the sport of basketball.
Nichols’ comments, lamenting ESPN’s elevation of Maria Taylor, a woman of color, at what she believed was her expense and to fulfill a diversity quota at ESPN rightly struck a nerve with people around the NBA. Not only were the comments abhorrent but they follow the age-old sentiment of white Americans praising diversity as long as it doesn’t affect them in the slightest.