Michelle Beadle has reemerged in sports media, with a new podcast for The Athleticaptly called What Did I Miss? with Michelle Beadle. During Friday's episode with Paul Pierce, her former ESPN colleague, the two alleged that LeBron James once tried to have her fired from the network.
After holding a televised special called "The Decision" to announce his departure from the Cavaliers for the Heat, James caught plenty of flak from people around the sports world, Beadle included. She acknowledged Pierce saying that James tried to have her fired from her ESPN job, and indicated it is because of things she said about The Decision.