Former NBA Star Paul Pierce got fired by ESPN for posting a scandalous video of his home game on Instagram, showing barely dressed strippers dancing around the table.
Paul Pierce’s wild poker home game
Paul Pierce played a total of 19 seasons in the NBA and won an NBA championship in 2008. He was the best player on the Boston Celtics team for many years and retired from professional basketball after the 2016-17 season.
Afterwards, “The Truth” became an NBA analyst for ESPN and appeared regularly in many shows such as The Jump and NBA Countdown.
While he was certainly one of the best players in the NBA back in the days and was arguably a decent analyst as well, he made some rather unpleasant headlines recently.
For anyone wondering what private poker games in LA look like 😂
— Joey Ingram 🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽 (@Joeingram1) April 3, 2021
He went live on Instagram and shared some interesting insights on what a private poker game in Los Angeles looks like.
Paul Pierce is shown in a room with several exotic dancers and getting massaged by one of them – while sitting at a poker table.
It didn’t take too long for the Media and Instagram users to react and most of the comments weren’t too positive, to say the least.
— Melissa Schubert (@poodawgmelissa) April 4, 2021
However, some poker players were actually quite interested in joining the table.
I get invited to weird “big” Cali games every every blue moon and always say no without the details, but……
— 🎈Brandon Shack-Harris (@Oscillator_WSOP) April 3, 2021
Even though it seems like Paul Pierce had a great time at this exotic poker home game, that’s unfortunately not the end of the story.
ESPN fires Paul Pierce
Soon after Pierce published his epic Instagram story, ESPN reacted and decided to part ways with the former NBA champion.
Even though ESPN officially declined to comment on Pierce’s departure, it’s almost certain that he will have to leave the network.
However, Pierce didn’t appear to be too sad about ESPN’s decision and shared a short, but entertaining video on Twitter.
Big Things coming soon stay tuned make sure u smile #Truthshallsetufree pic.twitter.com/YIaJMcNQoH
— Paul Pierce (@paulpierce34) April 5, 2021
It seems like a Twitter user might actually know why Pierce did not appear to be bothered:
Paul pierce got stabbed like 10 times and played 82 games, and also went on national TV and told everyone he shit his pants in a playoff game, this man does not care in the best way, espn is toast
— fraser ramon (@SteveMerkle9) April 6, 2021
There were also some other hilarious tweets regarding this whole drama.
this how espn wanted Paul Pierce to be in that live pic.twitter.com/jjYW92k1Ct
— ball fade (@ballfade_) April 5, 2021
After getting fired by ESPN for racy instagram video with stripers, An Adult site is offering Paul Pierce $250,000 to host an NBA show with exotic dancers pic.twitter.com/c2GpJgHgSj
— P.H_Towncrier 🔊🔊🔊 (@Ph_Towncrier) April 6, 2021
It seems like Paul Pierce might have an ace up his sleeve:
I can’t lose even when I lose I’m winning 🤔🤔😳😃😃😃
— Paul Pierce (@paulpierce34) April 6, 2021
It will be interesting to see what he is up to after getting fired by ESPN, apparently, he already received a 6-figure offer by an adult site as an NBA analyst.
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