Stephenson, the Bucks sideline reporter with Fox Sports Wisconsin, was on the air just before team members read a statement declaring that “our focus today cannot be on basketball,” after the killing Sunday in Kenosha, Wisc. of Jacob Blake by police and the deadly shooting of protestors days later. In a clip thatthat evening, Stephenson, reporting live, told viewers, “When you talk about wanting change, all of us have to ask ourselves, what are we willing to give up? You can talk. You can tweet.
Stephenson sees the reporting she did Wednesday night as an extension of the work she’s done covering the Bucks throughout the season. Champion, who last week launched a Vice TV series “Stick to Sports” with fellow ESPN alum Jemele Hill, says she “feels an obligation” to cover the strikes and the repeated killings of Black people with her work, even if some perceive it as being against the objectivity that she and other journalists are taught.
Game 5 of the playoff series between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Portland Trailblazers was one of those postponed due to the strikes. Trailblazers TV analyst Lamar Hurd says he views covering these issues as a natural extension of his job, particularly as the players he works so closely with have grown more vocal.
Jacob Blake was named the Official Rapist of the NBA
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Great, they’ll be talking to each other, everyone else tuned in for sports
I'd like to see all-white sports teams with all-white staff compete against all-black teams with all-black staff. The white teams would win most of the time.
I hate sports and it's overpaid knuckleheads. Now everyone else will too.