At this point in time when I was looking at the offseason, anyone who knows me knows my (9-year-old) daughter comes first. “Fortunately the WNBA is in the summer and they look at that as our main season, but our main season is overseas,” Parker said. The second interview in the podcast is with WNBA star Candace Parker, who discussed why she recently took the job with Turner Sports as a full-time NBA analyst. Instead, I said, ‘You want to tell me why you think you are better than LeBron James or Kevin Durant?’ If within the interview you don’t hold people accountable, that is where you can ask is someone using you to get their message (out).” I have done a bunch of interviews lately including one with Anthony Davis where he came out in the opening answer and said, ‘I think I am the best player in the league,’ and he gives his general answer about why he thinks he is the best player in the NBA. On the issue of whether she felt at all used by Butler’s camp as part of a media strategy, Nichols said, “When is it bad to have somebody get out what they think and what is going on with them? I think within the interview if people are not held accountable, that is when you have a problem, if the interview becomes fluffy. She did not know what was going on at that practice – she was flying at the time from Los Angeles to Minneapolis – until she started getting texts and reading news reports on it.
Nichols said was what unusual was that Butler practiced before doing an interview. I think a lot of athletes feel that sitting down and having an interview is the way they want to get that stuff out first.” doing it in a scrum environment where you are leaning up against a wall and there are 10 cameras in your face and people are asking you questions where one question does not necessarily follow another question in terms of topic, or you start an answer and get interrupted or sidetracked, maybe you don’t say the whole thing that you wanted to say. But as a lot of these guys do, if they want to say something complicated …. We learned that he’s ready to go back, he’s going to go to practice, he wants to talk. “The day before (his first practice), at 7 p.m. “As those days went by there was the casual, ‘Hey, are you going to go back to practice? Are you going to do media? What are you going to do?’” Nichols said. Then came the many stories about whether Butler would practice with Minnesota. Given it seemed very likely earlier this month that Butler was headed to Miami, Nichols told the Butler camp that when the deal with Miami was consummated, she would travel to Miami for a sit-down with Butler.
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Then the trade conversations with Miami heated up and he and his agent -and this was smart on their part - thought Jimmy randomly going on TV and talking about stuff might not be the smartest thing.” “That was the original plan, to come to the studio and be on the show and we had the beginnings of that setup. “Honestly, at one point when it looked like things were going a certain way with Minnesota, Jimmy was in Los Angeles for a week and we thought he was going to come and be on the show,” she said. Nichols said she spoke with Butler during training camp about when he might want to talk publicly. And I want to talk to people and find out where management is coming from too.” “If I am going to comment on Jimmy Butler and the situation in Minnesota, I want to have had a conversation with him so I can understand where he is coming from. “I have done a lot of things which has given me a layered relationship with a lot of people around the league and Jimmy is someone I have had a layered relationship with given the bunch of different gigs I have had,” said Nichols, who was a guest this week on the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch. She said she checked in with Butler this summer about where his mindset was, part of a regular routine of speaking to players and executives, including off the record conversations, to stay current with the storylines of the NBA.
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Nichols said she has had a long time professional relationship with Butler and has interviewed him off and on since his rookie season. Over the course of her career at ESPN and CNN, and particularly over the last four weeks, Nichols has found herself asking questions of those at the forefront of NBA news.Įarlier this month, she had the first sit-down with Minnesota Timberwolves forward Jimmy Butler, just hours after his now-famous return to practice with the Timberwolves following an endless news cycle of will-Jimmy-be-traded. If you are a major newsmaker in the NBA looking to address questions that are of interest to the basketball public, there is a strong likelihood you will end up being interviewed by ESPN’s Rachel Nichols.
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