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Paul Pierce unapologetic to ESPN for Instagram video, didn’t realize he made it

Paul Pierce is not sorry — and does not see why he should be — for the video that got him fired from ESPN, per a Sports Illustrated story with Chris Mannix.

Pierce, whose 15-year career in Boston culminates with his induction to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame this weekend, told Mannix he already planned to leave the network.

“I was done with them, anyway,” Pierce told Mannix. “It wasn’t a great fit. There’s a lot of stuff over there that you can’t say. And you have to talk about LeBron all the time.