The person who broke so much NBA news that his scoops earned a pithy nickname, announced on X on Tuesday that he is leaving ESPN and retiring from sports journalism to become general manager of the men’s basketball program at his alma mater, St. Bonaventure University.
Adrian Wojnarowski, known simply as Woj, littered the hoops landscape with “Woj bombs,” breaking news that he reported first, accurately and with context.
Wojnarowski, 55, was hired by ESPN in 2017 after emerging as a must-read news hound and columnist at Yahoo Sports in 2007. He previously worked at the Record of Bergen County, N.