Is John Skipper’s Legacy at ESPN Riding on the NBA?
ESPN lost a colossal figure when president and co-chairman John Skipper stepped down on Monday, with his 20 years at the network coinciding with — and presiding over — major shifts at the sports giant.
His exit came as a “massive surprise,” one ESPN insider told TheWrap, with the network and Disney, its parent company, grappling with the ongoing siege cord-cutters have inflicted on its subscriber base.
According to J.A. Adande, former ESPN analyst and current Director of Sports Journalism at Northwestern University, Skipper’s legacy will “take a while to be determined.” But the $2.