ESPN has publicly apologized in the wake of more than a week of claims by analyst Kendrick Perkins that the voters who award the NBA’s MVP are racist because they are primarily white.
, co-host Molly Qerim addressed the mounting controversy that kicked off more than a week earlier when Perkins began hinting that Denver Nuggets star Nikola Jokic was winning multiple MVP awards because he is a white player and the MVP voters are also white.“I want to correct something here from yesterday’s show,” Qerim stated.
Perkins and Reddick had gone back and forth over the issue for several days, though neither had been on the same show until Tuesday’s broadcast. Riddick took the issue“Stephen A. , I mean no offense to you. And I mean no offense to ‘First Take’ because I think this show is extremely valuable,” he said. “It is an honor to be on this desk every day. It really is. But what we just witnessed is the problem with this show. Where we create narratives that do not exist in reality.
JJ Redick condemns First Take and pushes back on Kendrick Perkins alleging NBA MVP voters have a racial bias against Black players:
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