Adrian Wojnarowski, the longtime NBA reporter who has labored at ESPN since 2017, announced Wednesday that he’s retiring from ESPN and the information trade as a complete.
“I grew up the son of a manufacturing facility employee two miles from ESPN’s campus and solely ever dreamed of creating a residing as a sportswriter,” Wojnarowski wrote. “Thirty-seven years in the past, the Hartford Courant gave me my first byline and I by no means stopped chasing the fun of all of it.”
“This craft remodeled my life, however I’ve determined to retire from ESPN and the information trade. I perceive the dedication required in my position and it’s an funding that I’m not pushed to make. Time isn’t in infinite provide and I need to spend mine in methods which might be extra personally significant.”
Whereas Wojnarowski’s assertion didn’t embrace any particulars on the following section of his profession, his fellow news-breakers at ESPN — Adam Schefter (NFL), Jeff Passan (MLB) and Pete Thamel (NCAAF) — reported that Woj has agreed to develop into the final supervisor of the lads’s basketball program at St. Bonaventure, his alma mater.
The college confirmed the information in a press release, indicating that Wojnarowski’s obligations in his new position will embrace “identify, picture and likeness (NIL) alternatives and a liaison with collectives; switch portal administration; recruit, household and alumni participant relationships; skilled participant packages; and program fundraising.”
Whereas Wojnarowski has been an everyday presence on ESPN’s NBA broadcasts and studio programming over the previous seven years, he’s finest recognized for having been the league’s most outstanding news-breaker for nicely over a decade.
The time period “Woj bomb” was coined to explain Wojnarowski’s scoops on X, the place he and former protege Shams Charania have battled through the years to be the primary to report the NBA’s greatest trades, signings and different information.
