Skip Bayless and Nina Westbrook keep going at it, none of them look like they are going to stop anytime soon.
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The Los Angeles Lakers are having as troublesome a season as it gets. They are 28-35 currently and have lost 11 out of their last 15 games. Except for their start to the new year with a 4-0 run and their recent Saturday night win against the Warriors, they have been one of the worst teams in the league for two months. Credit goes to everyone on the team.
Nobody has been playing too great for the Purple and Gold team, maybe except for LeBron James on the offense, which has also been of less use in some games. But the majority of it can be put on Russell Westbrook’s dip as a player, Anthony Davis’ fitness, and Frank Vogel’s coaching.
And being in LA, representing one of the biggest franchises in the NBA, they must welcome the criticism they get for not performing anywhere close to the expectations they were brought in for.
But there is a certain way in which criticism sounds and stays constructive, and it’s not the way any major sports media platform follows. Not at least Fox Sports or ESPN, who have their highest-paid sports analysts in Skip Bayless and Stephen A. Smith.
Both of them can and generally do go to any extent while talking about some of the biggest personalities in sports. And hence earn TRP for their channels like no one else.
That happened in the back and forth between Bayless and Nina Westbrook. For the past few days, Westbrook’s wife and Skip have been going against each other on social media starting with Nina’s Tweet.
Nina Westbrook sends out a long series of Tweets against Skip Bayless
After getting a response from the veteran Fox Sports analyst that he’ll continue to ‘do his job’ Nina sent out a series of Tweets, all of which make more sense than Skip’s journalistic ethics and her husband’s atrocious dip in form this season.
She even laid out the definition of the word “criticism”, which Bayless, or should we say, Spineless completely misses all the time.
She feels she is getting harassed since she started defending her husband.
The death threats and obscenities have more to do with the stupidity of fans who consider basketball bigger than life. Maybe it’s the same problem with Skip who has accepted it himself that his career is bigger to him than anything.
Mrs. Westbrook has completely laid down the path for Skip to change his pathetic way of journalism, which seems as unlikely to come true as the Lakers’ dream of their big-3 working out.
