I take it back. This is one of those "you hear what you want to hear" type deals...And I am sure her intention was to say lakers, but said "nakers" instead. I listed to it carefully, and my ears do not detect "niggers", but "nakers". In fact, if you were to slow down the audio, I bet you would not hear a "g" sound anywhere in there. Oi, this is going to be the controversy of the day for a while.
I heard it several times..never heard anything close to Nay-kers...there was a definite Nih sound there with hard G. I dont think she meant to say the word, her mental wires got crossed ad libbing live on TV and her mouth said the wrong thing. I dont think there was intent or purpose...but still pretty WTF!
fake news, that police report is out there for all to read http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/sports/kobe-police-file-released