His new role with St. Bonaventure includes name, image and likeness opportunities, serving as a liaison with collectives, working in transfer portal management and assisting with family and alumni player relationships, professional player programs and program fundraising.
One of the ironies of his career is that he found national acclaim at Yahoo! Sports by beating ESPN at its own game — and then stunningly joined the Empire in 2017. Rare can a sports reporter move markets and change the economics for those who frequently break news but Wojnarowski did.
He helped make other reporters money by virtue of ESPN highlighting his power. ESPN management only learned of his decision this morning and his departure creates a massive opening given how important the NBA is to the company, especially with the new NBA deal that begins in 2025-26 and runs through the 2035-36 season. — Richard Deitsch, sports media senior writer
The role of the GM in college basketball is still being defined. Not everyone is the same, and it largely depends on what the head coach is looking for. In some instances, it’s scouting talent. Sometimes it’s communicating with grassroots coaches and players. And some are tasked with trying to grow an NIL budget.
One college coach told me recently that fundraising would be a major part of the job if his school were eventually to add the position. More specifically, going out and bringing in new money. That’s likely the case here. Wojnarowski will likely be leaned on for his wide-ranging network as well. Dealing with agents has become part of the game, and his former job should be very beneficial there because he had to deal a ton with agents in the news-breaking game. — C.J. Moore, college basketball staff writer
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Shams bout to swan dive into that 20 mil lmao
After the Okoro bomb, Woj said he ain’t doing this no more and dipped lol
This season won’t be the same without him
Kinda strange to walk away from 20 mil and 3 years left on contract with the company. It has to be something to that behind the scenes
Imagine if Shams broke the Woj retirement news before Woj did lmao
How do you become an “insider”
Just checked his wiki. They already updated it to “former”
He was at a freak off wasn’t he?
just fell to my knees in my bomb shelter
Kind of a big win for ESPN. They get out of the Woj deal which I think they kind of regretted. It wasn’t worth that much to get to say “from ESPN’s own” before breaking NBA news.
A person can only be asked to sit next to Perk so many times.
Woj can finally have a good sleep during free agency
Sounds like a prompt from the schoolyards.
“If you could get 7 million dollars a year but you had to spend every day on an app filled with nazis and only-fans bots would you?”
7 mil a year?! To be a reporter? Damn
Next woj bomb in 16 months he’s going to tweet “I’m Back” and all hell will break loose.
That’s at least 6.5 million too much
7 million to be a shitposter is nutty
Bro this is so damn random
Honesty that’s INSANE if that’s true that they just learned of that this morning
ESPN learning on Twitter would be peak Woj, now that’s going out on top
One of his road baddies got knocked up didn’t she. Can’t full time Woj bomb when you gotta full time swaddle.
Good riddance
Everybody saying this decision makes sense – I disagree. There’s more to the story and we’ll hear about it soon.
Bruh “I’m back”
Too many people wanting his take. Burned out.
Does this explain why Shams left Arena?
Not the Woj bomb I was expecting…
Yeah I think he’ll be fine.
It takes serious cojones to walk away from that type of money. That means either he goes into business for himself or someone else is going to give him more cheddar than espn.
As long as Shams covers the major reporting and it’s not filled with Haynes or God forbid KOC, I’ll be ok
I think this job sucks. Woj and Shams are basically never not working, and it’s mostly just sucking up to agents. And why anyone cares if some random player signs for 8 million for 3 years is reported first is ridiculous.
Imagine being paid that much to post tweets
Wonder if woj just had an epiphany of some kind. Bro can just live off his investments and travel and enjoy. I would.
Bruh nba middlemen should not be making this much
Must’ve been burnt out and got enough cash to call it a day. Good for him
The Woj bombs will be missed 😔
That’s actually an insanely ridiculous number for what he does
He was probably sick of working with morons
How the hell can a reporter make so much money? In Europe that’s a pay of a star player
Couldn’t he still break stuff just for the hell of it? He would basically become a Twitter Insider.
I know some people will be like “$20m? How do you walk away from that?” But it sounds like he’s made ballpark $45m+ so far in this deal. That’s more than enough for anyone. If I had made $45m in the past decade, I wouldn’t be working any job that I wasn’t super excited about, that’s for sure.
Media gigs like his come with a lot of pressure. He’s fine hard for a long time. Now gets a chance to breathe a bit
It’s wild how these guys get paid this much for tweeting stuff a couple minutes before everyone else. Wonder if they ever look in the mirror and realize they don’t do anything