ESPN’s substitute for Adrian Wojnarowski may come from inside.
From throughout the community’s baseball division, that’s.
Jeff Passan, ESPN’s prime MLB insider, has emerged as a candidate to modify over and turn out to be the community’s prime NBA insider, in response to The Athletic.
He joined ESPN in 2019 after working for Yahoo Sports activities and makes round $1 million per 12 months, per the report.
Wojnarowski, lengthy the highest newsbreaker in NBA media, stunningly retired from his ESPN profession earlier this month to turn out to be the final supervisor of the St. Bonaventure males’s basketball staff.
He walked away from roughly $20 million, the outlet reported.
“I grew up the son of a manufacturing unit employee two miles from ESPN’s campus and solely ever dreamed of constructing a dwelling as a sportswriter,” Wojnarowski wrote on X when he introduced his choice. “Thirty-seven years in the past, the Hartford Courant gave me my first byline and I by no means stopped chasing the joys of all of it.
“This craft remodeled 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 infinite provide and I wish to spend mine in methods which might be extra personally significant.”
Passan gave him a heartwarming tribute on the time.
“I’ve been lucky to spend greater than 20 years on this enterprise working with reams of proficient individuals,” Passan wrote on X. “Adrian Wojnarowski is the perfect. Interval. A peerless reporter. A gifted wordsmith. A storyteller nonpareil. He’s Jim Brown and Barry Sanders, leaving on the apex of his recreation.”
The Athletic’s Shams Charania additionally stays a prime candidate for the job, The Athletic added.
