Adrian Wojnarowski, the longtime NBA reporter who has labored at ESPN since 2017, introduced Wednesday that he’s retiring from ESPN and the information trade as an entire.
“I grew up the son of a manufacturing unit employee two miles from ESPN’s campus and solely ever dreamed of creating a dwelling 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 reworked 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 now not pushed to make. Time isn’t in limitless provide and I need to spend mine in methods which are extra personally significant.”
Whereas Wojnarowski’s assertion didn’t embody any particulars on the following part 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 boys’s basketball program at St. Bonaventure, his alma mater.
The varsity confirmed the information in a press launch, indicating that Wojnarowski’s duties in his new position will embody “title, picture and likeness (NIL) alternatives and a liaison with collectives; switch portal administration; recruit, household and alumni participant relationships; skilled participant applications; 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 greatest identified for having been the league’s most distinguished 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 largest trades, signings and different information.
