This is why I don't like a lot of the ESPN, Apple TV crap etc. Let the players and managers play without the dumb distractions. It adds nothing to the broadcast but annoyance.
It's sabotage trying to talk to these people in the field when they are doing 1000 computations a minute.
i believe the network pays the player whoever is being interviewed. So i want to say it's up to the player to accept the interview or not. I could be wrong so don't quote me on it.