Adrian Wojnarowski retires from ESPN to hitch St. Bonaventure basketball as GM

Adrian Wojnarowski has been one of many foremost characters of the NBA during the last decade because the league’s premier newsbreaker. On Wednesday, Wojnarowski unleashed certainly one of his greatest ‘Woj Bombs’ ever: he’s retiring from journalism.

The 55-year-old ESPN reporter issued this assertion saying his retirement from the information business. He already has a brand new gig lined up: Wojnarowski would be the new GM of St. Bonaventure males’s basketball, the school he graduated from in 1991.

Woj tweeted out the information of his retirement from the information business, then let his ESPN colleagues Jeff Passan and Adam Schefter concurrently break his transfer to the world of school basketball. Woj will reportedly deal with NIL offers and help this system in recruiting.

Woj received his begin within the newspaper business, however his profession actually took off when he began breaking nationwide NBA information at Yahoo! Sports activities. He ultimately jumped to ESPN, and immediately turned extra well-known than lots of the gamers he covers because of his signature ‘Woj Bombs,’ the breaking information experiences of what was taking place within the enterprise of basketball.

Right here’s Woj’s farewell letter to his journalism profession.

Wojnarowski was reportedly making about $7 million per yr from ESPN, a wage increased than a few of the NBA gamers he covers. He has 6.5 million Twitter followers.

Many faculty basketball applications have employed a GM as the game has transitioned to the NIL period. St. Bonaventure has constructed a stable program lately led by head coach Mike Schmidt, however solely has three NCAA match appearances in his 17-year tenure.

We’ll replace this story because it develops.