The final bomb has been dropped. When the dust settled, Adrian Wojnarowski, beloved NBA insider and analyst for ESPN, announced his retirement. Wojnarowski is leaving behind $20 million and three years remaining on his deal.
Wojnarowski retires from his role at ESPN after seven years of working for the company. He is now taking a few steps back to be the general manager of the basketball program at his alma mater, St. Bonaventure University, in the Atlantic 10 Conference.
Wojnarowski had a long journey getting to this point in his career. He grew up in Bristol, Conn., home of ESPN’s headquarters.
Some might call it faith but for Wojnarowski, hard work and dedication got him to the top of his career. He started at The Record in Bergen County, N.J.
, where he wrote sports columns in the paper. He then landed a job at Yahoo Sports in 2007 where he would write an NBA column. Wojnarowski helped Yahoo’s standalone NBA site and served as the editor.
At Yahoo Sports, Wojnarowski highlighted his style of reporting. He started to build his pool of sources and had the quickest access to NBA news before anyone else did. ESPN saw Wojnarowski’s strength and hired him as the senior NBA insider.
Wojnarowski went to ESPN in 2017. He made his first appearance on a midnight edition of SportsCenter. This move to ESPN propelled him into superstardom where he became a beloved analyst.
Wojnarowski helped overhaul and improve ESPN’s coverage of the NBA draft, breaking news on X before it was .
