#skip bayless

If we’re going to read the room and make some assumptions about what is transpiring, I would guess that Shannon has known for a long time that he plans to leave, and really timed his departure for the end of the basketball season.

If yout think about it, it’s a tough spot for the producers of Undisputed to be in, because we’re about to go in to the offseason and what would already be a natural/annual dip in ratings could be made a lot worse by the departure of a beloved co-host like Shannon is.

Skip Bayess has rubbed several co-hosts wrong over the years, if you remember the time he had a very tense verbal exhancge with former host, Jenny Taft and she left the show not too long after that.

There was the Damar Hamlin debate in which, Skip Bayless came off as being something other than sympathetic, or even professional. The year 2022 was marred with a series of uncomfortable debates between the two, and while they were great for teleivision, you actually wondered if these guys actually get along off screen.

For his part, Shannon hasn’t exactly kept his nose clean given what his coverage/analysis is on-screen and then the fact that he basically sits courtside at every Laker game. It is fair to question his objectivity when you see that, so I can’t imagine that this went over well with a long time newspaper columnist like Skip Bayless, who believes the reporter should never be involved in the story, and the media/reporter’s credibility being the priority over everything else.