Showtime Sports announced today that veteran journalist, host and sports broadcaster Rachel Nichols will join Showtime Basketball as both a host and producer, contributing to multiple platforms, programs and projects.“We are delighted to welcome Rachel Nichols to the SHOWTIME Basketball family,” said Brian Dailey, Senior Vice President, Sports Programming & Content, Showtime Networks Inc. “Rachel brings unmatched journalistic credibility, great familiarity with our roster and a work ethic that will take us to another level.”Nichols will contribute to SHOWTIME Basketball’s premium, award-winning storytelling as she bolsters a group that features Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, JR Smith and King of NBA Twitter Josiah Johnson.“I’ve been so fortunate to live my dream job alongside some of the best journalists in the business for more than 25 years, and this new development deal with SHOWTIME Sports gives me my most broad playing field yet,” Nichols said. “They’ve asked me to produce, create and host new sports programming across platforms, working alongside Hall of Famers, multiple guys with championship rings and an uber-creative team behind the camera.

We’re going to have so much fun.”Nichols’ first sit-down interview since her departure from ESPN will air on today’s episode of “All the Smoke with Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson,” becoming available at 3p.m.

Eastern and noon Pacific on the Showtime Basketball YouTube Channel.ESPN announced that it would remove the broadcaster from its programming in August of 2021.

In a 2020 leaked phone conversation, the former ESPN host expressed frustration that her former colleague Maria Taylor was chosen over her to host “NBA Countdown” during the NBA Finals, suggesting that the decision.

Former ESPN Host Rachel Nichols Joins Showtime Basketball

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