One other high-profile expertise is out at ESPN.
Senior NBA author Zach Lowe has been laid off by the community, The Athletic’s Andrew Marchand reported.
Lowe had been with ESPN for greater than a decade, having joined Invoice Simmons’ Grantland vertical in 2012 after writing for Sports activities Illustrated.
Lowe was one of many few Grantland writers who made the transition over to ESPN when the vertical shuttered in 2015; NFL author Invoice Barnwell was one other.
Lowe’s wage, greater than $1 million a 12 months, was the “largest issue” in his dismissal from ESPN, in response to The Athletic.
Along with writing for ESPN, Lowe usually appeared on “NBA In the present day”, the community’s each day NBA program, and hosted the favored “Lowe Submit” podcast.
Lowe’s exit from ESPN follows the stunning layoffs of Robert Griffin III and Samantha Ponder, which occurred final month, proper earlier than soccer season.
A silver lining for Lowe is that the timing traces up as NBC and Amazon are stocking up on NBA skills earlier than their league rights agreements begin in 2025 (Amazon’s package deal is presuming TNT’s lawsuit towards the NBA is unsuccessful or settled).
The Lowe information follows final week’s stunner that ESPN’s lead NBA reporter Adrian Wojnarowski left the corporate to be the final supervisor of his alma mater St. Bonaventure’s males’s basketball workforce.
“I grew up the son of a manufacturing unit employee two miles from ESPN’s campus and solely ever dreamed of constructing a residing as a sportswriter,” Wojnarowski wrote on X when he introduced the information.
“Thirty-seven years in the past, the Hartford Courant gave me my first byline and I by no means stopped chasing the fun 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 not pushed to make. Time isn’t in infinite provide and I need to spend mine in methods which are extra personally significant.”
