Woj bomb: Adrian Wojnarowski retiring from ESPN to become GM of his beloved St. Bonaventure

Adrian Wojnarowski is retiring from journalism, a career where he emerged as the No. 1 breaker of NBA news. (Photo by Allen Berezovsky/Getty Images)

If you only know Adrian Wojnarowski as an NBA insider, Twitter newsbreaker, draft pick revealer and ESPN personality, then his final Woj Bomb — as his true but out-of-nowhere reports became famously known — may not make any sense.

Wednesday morning, Wojnarowski, 55, tweeted out that he was retiring from sports journalism, walking away from a lucrative and powerful spot at ESPN as the most powerful and famous reporter in the NBA.

The chaser: he is leaving to become the general manager of his beloved alma mater, St. Bonaventure University. There he will lead the recruiting and NIL efforts to help his good friend coach Mark Schmidt keep the proud Bonnie program relevant and eventually return to the NCAA Tournament.

“I’m thrilled and humbled to return to St. Bonaventure with an opportunity to serve the university,” Wojnarowski said in a statement.

Again, a guy at the peak of his reporting and news breaking powers, with the dream job and salary of any sports journalist in the country, is stepping down voluntarily, with three more years on his deal, and choosing to run a mid-major college hoops program in a small town in the snow belt of Western New York.

With his contacts and experience, if Wojnarowski wanted to leave journalism for the competitive side of the business, he could have easily joined a sports agency or an NBA front office. At least one other major college program, upon hearing rumors of Woj’s move, offered him a similar spot with them and the lure of trying to win a national title.

He said no.

Instead he took the freedom provided from making enough money that he didn’t need anymore money to go create his dream job. It doesn’t get much better than that.

“I’m really excited,” he said.

All of this speaks to two characteristics that I have known about Wojnarowski across three decades of friendship and both working against and with each other — he spent more than a decade here at Yahoo Sports.

One, Woj is as gifted of a writer and reporter as…

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Author : Yahoo Sports

Publish date : 2024-09-18 15:05:55

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