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Paul Pierce Canned by ESPN After Instagram Live Session
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It was a nice run for Paul Pierce, who was canned by ESPN after almost four years doing basketball analysis for the network.
His offense? This Instagram live session, which featured smoking and drinking and scantily-clad women and a poker game, which some people would describe as “Saturday night” –
https://twitter.com/THVMOE/status/1378234100067266566?s=20
The whole thing was ridiculous. There were only a few hundred people watching the stream, and one asked where Rachel Nichols was, which caused her name to trend as this entire thing went viral.
RE: the transgression that got him fired, I guess DISNEY does not want people on their payroll doing live videos where they engage in behaviors that could be deemed as lewd and/or lascivious. That is the educated guess, since Disney is a family-friendly company!
Pierce didn’t seem to be bothered though. He was totally unfazed, and posted this:
Big Things coming soon stay tuned make sure u smile #Truthshallsetufree pic.twitter.com/YIaJMcNQoH
— Paul Pierce (@paulpierce34) April 5, 2021
Pierce later tweeted the following:
“I can’t lose even when I lose I’m winning.”
Kevin has been writing about Philadelphia sports since 2009. He spent seven years in the CBS 3 sports department and started with the Union during the team's 2010 inaugural season. He went to the academic powerhouses of Boyertown High School and West Virginia University. email - k.kinkead@sportradar.com