NBA Twitter newsbreaker Adrian Wojnarowski is retiring

Sep 18, 2024 10:22 PM - 4 months ago 150064

Turn disconnected your notifications — @wojespn is hanging up his cellphone.

By Richard Lawler, a elder editor pursuing news crossed tech, culture, policy, and entertainment. He joined The Verge successful 2021 aft respective years covering news astatine Engadget.

Sep 18, 2024, 3:22 PM UTC

Adrian Wojnarowski looks connected during the 2024 NBA Draft - Round One connected June 26, 2024, astatine Barclays Center successful Brooklyn, New York.

Adrian Wojnarowski has been reporting insider NBA news for ESPN since 2017, but he’s champion known for his news-breaking tweets astir trades, free agency signings, and different deals. Now Wojnarowski says he’s retiring from the NBA beat.

For hoops fans, “Woj bombs” became a logic to person your telephone connected and Twitter notifications set, some to get instant updates astir subordinate activity and to debar getting sucked successful by clone accounts and rumors. In a 2015 GQ interview, Wojnarowski said his Twitter stardom sewage started pinch the 2009 NBA draft:

When did you first recognize that Twitter could beryllium specified a powerful limb successful the breaking news?

I conjecture it was the 2009 Draft. It was the time earlier the draught and I was pinch Johnny Ludden, my editor astatine Yahoo and his woman (girlfriend astatine the time) Jennifer Banda. I kept saying to Johnny, I’m getting each this accusation connected draught night. No one’s seeing it. By the clip you put it up, it’s gone. How do I get this worldly retired there? I’m getting this accusation connected picks. What do we do pinch it? And Jennifer goes, well, get connected Twitter.

Others besides study sports dealmaking info — his former protege-turned-rival Shams Charania is reportedly a “looming” media free supplier — but Woj has been astatine the apical of the heap for a agelong time.

Wojnarowski announced his status from ESPN and the news manufacture successful a station connected Wednesday, and ESPN reports he will go the wide head of the men’s hoops programme astatine his alma mater, St. Bonaventure.