ESPN disputes Bill Simmons' accusation he was intentionally edited out of a Get Up! segment

New York Post

Simmons, who had an acrimonious exit from ESPN in 2015, recently interviewed NBA commissioner Adam Silver, whose comments about social media isolation went viral. When ESPN's Get Up! covered the segment on Wednesday morning, Simmons noticed that the clip was zoomed in on Silver to crop him out of the interview. "Incredible CGI efforts by Get Up to cut me out of last Friday’s Adam Silver interview," tweeted Simmons. "They should have just replaced me with a hologram of Rachel Nichols." ESPN responded to Simmons' accusation this morning: ”This is a non-story. There is absolutely nothing to this. We ran clips of Adam Silver with Bill Simmons on ESPN shows/platforms.” The sports network also provided an ESPN screenshot showing Simmons with Silver.