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NBA Twitter Went Crazy Over Jimmy Butler & Rachel Nichols NBA Bubble Rumors

After ESPN’s Rachel Nichols was caught on a hot mic, saying that her colleague Maria Taylor got to anchor last year’s NBA Finals coverage instead of her because the network was ‘feeling pressure’ about its ‘crappy longtime record on diversity’, the internet hasn’t stopped talking about it.

Additionally, there’s more and more rumors about Nichols and the 2020 NBA Bubble coming to surface. The most frequent one is that Nichols and Miami Heat All-Star Jimmy Butler shared more than just the occasional interview in the Bubble. The unsubstantiated rumor has it, that the two got together in Orlando.

While this just is a wild rumor right now, NBA Twitter obviously went crazy over it and got to work.

No way pic.twitter.com/kF3gmfwA2a

— GrandpaJuice (@itslejon_brames) July 6, 2021

KAT telling Jimmy Butler “Call Rachel Nichols” hits different now pic.twitter.com/2n7hwgz8eC

— . (@_Brandyn2) July 6, 2021

So Jimmy Butler was smashing Rachel Nichols cheeks in the NBA bubble last season pic.twitter.com/rpYduBaV0W

— Man Like (@Weso3K) July 6, 2021

Jimmy Butler 100% clapped the Rachel Nichols wagon. A freak of nature pic.twitter.com/8jSZkAy4q5

— Truth Turtle (@wecomingoneday) July 6, 2021

Are we just gonna ignore the Rachel Nichols Jimmy Butler interview? pic.twitter.com/dXurHIQShj

— Spida (@Spida45SZN) July 6, 2021

Jimmy Butler got with Rachel Nichols in the bubble?! No wonder why my nigga was tired pic.twitter.com/WoOjl8L2OC

— Dami(Temporary Suns fan) (@KingDami5299) July 6, 2021

Ersan Ilyasova and Jimmy Butler was really takin turns beatin Rachel Nichols cheeks in the bubble pic.twitter.com/G3vlaLdUBA

— aH (@_abdiii23) July 6, 2021

Ersan Illysova passing Rachel Nichols over to Jimmy Butler in the bubble pic.twitter.com/UcOwW2i6dZ

— Kwame Brown (@KwameBurnerAcct) July 6, 2021

Y’all remember them Jimmy Butler and Rachel Nichols interviews that was a little too friendly in the bubble? We should’ve known then

— Erick (@ADxBron) July 6, 2021

Wait wait wait jimmy butler and Ersan Ilyasova smashed Rachel Nichols in the nba bubble last year ?!!! Nah who started this rumor show yourself pic.twitter.com/gQuHLeovr6

— Azsworld (@azsworld37) July 6, 2021