Many of Woj's sources were NBA GM's. Sometimes they would call him just to see if he's heard anything around the league they don't know about. Plenty of NBA trades would not have happened without Woj's insider information.
Trades would have had happened without Woj. NBA POBO/GMs speak with each other. Woj just reports what the POBO/GMs, agents and other league related sources tell him.
Or he could be thinking what he's missing that Woj saw OR he could get burnt out too. Still, I'd be sad if I were Shams. It's like there's no one there to compete and keep me up on my toes. That absence of a Coke to your Pepsi can make one "complacent" as strange as that sounds.
Hearing that job description now man Woj and Shams just actually sounds pretty horrible. You cant even sleep cause NBA news could drop at any time no matter what you're doing or even if you're asleep.
@@raymondqiu8202 Yeah, *you* don't get it. Basketball news can drop at anytime. Woj and Shams are contacting/getting contacted by sources everyday to get the scoop before anyone else. That's what being a sports writer/insider is about. It's a fast pace environment
Worked at Yahoo the same time as Adrian, He was quite a nice guy, and trust he still in person. And to this day, when I see him reporting on ESPN, I still think of Yahoo.
Use ur brain. The draft is when most people are on social media. There’s content creators doing live reactions that probably don’t want their chat to say a draft pick before it happens
I lived in Fresno in the 90s. The sports page was my first section. I got so sick of the opinionated reporting that it no longer was news. Because of this ass hat, I stopped reading newspapers all together. Shams having a personal interest in DraftKings and being involved in the skewing of bets for Scoot Henderson, fully destroys his credibility. They're not journalists, they're not reporters, they're only out to get the most money from their platform.
1. Shams nipping at his heels. 2. Waning influence, due to the second apron. His pressure to trade a player or sign a FA matters less when you literally can’t do that.
In a way weren’t Woj and Shama the mouthpieces for NBA GM’s and players respectively? If so, weren’t those two were not necessarily competing against one another directly?
@@fortynights1513 Well yes, they were but there had been tension between the 2 of them. Who breaks stories first and what not. Who has the ear of certain teams and executives. Things like that.
Honestly we should be congratulating for continuing to grow his name in the sport of basketball. From a journalist to a gm for college. He worked for it
Woj came to my school as a guest speaker and the whole time he had his phone on him checking if there was news while speaking and talked about how he wakes up every hour to check he really worked as hard as he possibly could, also another story he told, one time he tweeted JJ reddick contract I forget which and tweeted the number and was off by 500,000 simple typo he had so much pull that the team ended up paying JJ the amount woj said and not the amount they originally agreed on he really was 31st franchise.
Yeah, because Hawley had the temerity to point out that the NBA makes big money from Chinese slave labor. For all their posturing and preening, Silver, Woj, LeBron, and all the others are huge fans of slavery as long as it is benefiting them.
A sizeable part of the NBA community, including NBA youtubers constantly get their updates through Woj, which is a crazy thing in itself. We will see how it will go in the near future.
Thank god... We only need Shams to retire too We need to stop glorifying people who just tweet what their friends tell them instead of actual journalism
@@MrE_ Woj was clearly a plant for the owners . Trade talk and trade deadline stuff is major business that promotes the league. You can talk about journalism, I'm talking about how 30 teams are using one guy for information leaks. It's clearly a league wide set up.
This guy pioneered the most cancerous style of journalism imaginable. And there is no coming back now: Shams is next but someone will have to rise to be the opposite force (so if franchise X is not in good terms with Shams then they will speak with the new guy). Two journalists basically influencing the whole league, leveraging players and franchises alike. Absolutely disgusting! But hey I congrat WoJ by making a fucking ton of money out of nowhere, his growth is truly impressive despite fucking up the media forever
ESPN should have remained that instead of just copying any new trend that comes along. Rest of the world could have gone with new journalism lol and espn should have stayed committed to real journalism. Could have remained their brand and would have been for the best in the long run.
It actually kinda lines up. Woj mainly talks with NBA GMs. A lot of GMs weren’t happy with how Lebron went to Miami in 2010. That’s probably how he got insider information with all the GMs. Also think about it, the only front office that hates Woj is Miami.
Being a NBA Insider wasn’t new thing when Woj started. Peter Vecsey was doing it for years as the NBA Insider for The NBA on NBC back in the 90s Bulls days.
The reason he quit is because the NBA players and front office personnel get paid so much money, that Woj cant afford to buy information from them, from their friends/family, or from their crew/bodyguards. Before the $300 million contracts, Woj could pay someones bodyguard $1000 to get inside information. After the $300 million contracts, security guards and entourages get paid so much, its not worth $1,000 to risk their livelihood...
I’m sure WOJ is a fine dude, but I am kinda hoping some of the NBA toxicity leaves with him. Would love to get back to actual ball and ball talk instead of hot takes and this weird media ran/player empowerment era where players tell WOJ something about where they want to go or how they’re unhappy then deny it when he leaks it… just for them to then leave later and say they were unhappy. Hope we can get back to pure basketball and cut the off the court nonsense that’s plaguing it. But that crap brings headlines and Shams is just a young WOJ so I’m sure it’ll stay more or less then same
He quit because ESPN is a DEI cesspool and he’s probably sick of competing with Shams. We all know over the last two years “the culture” moved to shams and regarded woj as the old guy
he was just a sounding board for some front offices. Unofficial PR to lower the value of players during possible trades. Just like Shams is on Klutch's nuts
I’m sure he got sick of being forced fed what he could and couldn’t say. He didn’t look comfortable covering the Olympics like he was giving takes he was forced to present.
Woj was the original LeBron James hater back when he was writing for Yahoo sports. He gave the blueprint to Skip feckless and the rest of the vampires.
Can’t stand him - ever since he announced a kids decision before they got to at a family event. Who needs to know these things a few minutes before they are officials ?
This"Woj" guy never knew shit. I saw SOOOOO many of his takes and predictions fall short. The Kevin Durant trade comes to mind. How a chubby middle aged man becomes gospel for the NBA always had me wondering
Definitely took the money from ESPN since he has connections with GMs around the league and can deliver breaking NBA news. Unfortunately, he has certain biases that have documented, as well as going above and beyond protecting his sources from scandals or issues.
@@jondoe4624 what i meant was that when his sources f***ed up or made a mistake, and it's pretty obvious that the person is guilty, he never reports it, opting to stay silent or dismiss it completely.
No he didn’t 💀the only things shams had over woj was his connections with lebron and clutch sports. Sham and clutch super close 🪦so he’ll never go against lbj or clutch
Someone else will replace him and report the same crap. Its not like he wasnt sharing any of the same information thats on hoops hype or any other site .
Neither woj, nor shams, know anything about the game of basketball. They are reporters who get scoops, but don't know the game. I don't care if I know something now, or 30 minutes later. I'd rather watch basketball.
Many of Woj's sources were NBA GM's. Sometimes they would call him just to see if he's heard anything around the league they don't know about. Plenty of NBA trades would not have happened without Woj's insider information.
He's basically an information broker. You pay information for information. Honestly quite brilliant he made a whole career.
Yup.His sources was agents, teams, players and snitches in organizations. He didn't do reporting but was a gossip columnist.
Trades would have had happened without Woj. NBA POBO/GMs speak with each other. Woj just reports what the POBO/GMs, agents and other league related sources tell him.
Journalism GOAT
@@PWCDNhow is that legal ?
Shams dancing rn 🕺
Is that emoji related to his tweets about Loyola?
Or he could be thinking what he's missing that Woj saw OR he could get burnt out too. Still, I'd be sad if I were Shams. It's like there's no one there to compete and keep me up on my toes. That absence of a Coke to your Pepsi can make one "complacent" as strange as that sounds.
Shams feeling like thanos rn
I imagine working at ESPN sucks.
Their content sucks, but I wouldn't be able to tell you if it sucks to work there
it. doesnt
It does 💯
My dad did, it sucks he had like zero time off
Working at ESPN is probably worse than you imagine.
Hearing that job description now man Woj and Shams just actually sounds pretty horrible. You cant even sleep cause NBA news could drop at any time no matter what you're doing or even if you're asleep.
It must be terrible for relationships.
It's not everyday and is mainly just the week or 2 or free agency and the draft. Smh some ppl really don't get it 🤦
@@raymondqiu8202 Yeah, *you* don't get it. Basketball news can drop at anytime. Woj and Shams are contacting/getting contacted by sources everyday to get the scoop before anyone else. That's what being a sports writer/insider is about. It's a fast pace environment
Dang we just lost the one source who was right 98% of the time and did it practically days before anyone else would even talk about it
Don't worry!! Shams are going to take over for him
@@pinbarbecue1100 sham news
@@pinbarbecue1100we have woj at home
Still don't understand why would anyone share the information with him ?
@@pinbarbecue1100he's in bed with betting companies nowadays I don't trust him like I used to
Worked at Yahoo the same time as Adrian, He was quite a nice guy, and trust he still in person. And to this day, when I see him reporting on ESPN, I still think of Yahoo.
He trynna work the ladder to be a GM watch
true
Makes sense. Get a lower gig and then work your way up back towards NBA GM.
Never understood the whole “he ruins the draft” like just stay off social media during the draft lmaooo
Addicts will blame everyone before looking in the mirror.
Use ur brain. The draft is when most people are on social media. There’s content creators doing live reactions that probably don’t want their chat to say a draft pick before it happens
@@nathanielb4985 Are you one of those people because this sound way too specific? 🤔
@@holdmyweight3597 no. I’ve just seen it happen on every draft stream I’ve ever watched
@@holdmyweight3597 NBA fans and projection/self reporting. Iconic as Shaq and Kobe.
I lived in Fresno in the 90s. The sports page was my first section. I got so sick of the opinionated reporting that it no longer was news. Because of this ass hat, I stopped reading newspapers all together. Shams having a personal interest in DraftKings and being involved in the skewing of bets for Scoot Henderson, fully destroys his credibility. They're not journalists, they're not reporters, they're only out to get the most money from their platform.
1. Shams nipping at his heels.
2. Waning influence, due to the second apron. His pressure to trade a player or sign a FA matters less when you literally can’t do that.
3. Lebron wants him gone.
No more competition for Shams lol
In a way weren’t Woj and Shama the mouthpieces for NBA GM’s and players respectively?
If so, weren’t those two were not necessarily competing against one another directly?
@@fortynights1513 Well yes, they were but there had been tension between the 2 of them. Who breaks stories first and what not. Who has the ear of certain teams and executives. Things like that.
@@Realest1neso just Ego ?
Sounds rather American, no wonder there's so many shootings
Ego.
Honestly we should be congratulating for continuing to grow his name in the sport of basketball. From a journalist to a gm for college. He worked for it
Woj came to my school as a guest speaker and the whole time he had his phone on him checking if there was news while speaking and talked about how he wakes up every hour to check he really worked as hard as he possibly could, also another story he told, one time he tweeted JJ reddick contract I forget which and tweeted the number and was off by 500,000 simple typo he had so much pull that the team ended up paying JJ the amount woj said and not the amount they originally agreed on he really was 31st franchise.
I will always remember Adrian Wojnarowski for emailing senator josh hawley with a F you response.
Yeah, because Hawley had the temerity to point out that the NBA makes big money from Chinese slave labor. For all their posturing and preening, Silver, Woj, LeBron, and all the others are huge fans of slavery as long as it is benefiting them.
IT'S STIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING
Based
can’t disagree with saying f u to a nazi
He is eternally goated for that one
Probably tired of ESPN working him from day to 🌙. Good for him and deserved because he is a hard worker tho
The actual playing of the game will always come first. The drama and everything else is after
A sizeable part of the NBA community, including NBA youtubers constantly get their updates through Woj, which is a crazy thing in itself. We will see how it will go in the near future.
Thank god... We only need Shams to retire too
We need to stop glorifying people who just tweet what their friends tell them instead of actual journalism
Facts. People are kinda dumb for worshipping these guys
Reporting what important people say is 99% of sports journalism lmao (unless its an op-ed)
What do you consider actual journalism? Rehashing the same publicly available information and regurgitating it in some chat gpt type of essay?
@@MrE_
Woj was clearly a plant for the owners . Trade talk and trade deadline stuff is major business that promotes the league.
You can talk about journalism, I'm talking about how 30 teams are using one guy for information leaks. It's clearly a league wide set up.
what exactly do you think journalism is lmao
Good for him he deserves what’s he has planned in his retirement ❤️🔥
This guy pioneered the most cancerous style of journalism imaginable. And there is no coming back now: Shams is next but someone will have to rise to be the opposite force (so if franchise X is not in good terms with Shams then they will speak with the new guy).
Two journalists basically influencing the whole league, leveraging players and franchises alike.
Absolutely disgusting! But hey I congrat WoJ by making a fucking ton of money out of nowhere, his growth is truly impressive despite fucking up the media forever
ESPN should have remained that instead of just copying any new trend that comes along. Rest of the world could have gone with new journalism lol and espn should have stayed committed to real journalism. Could have remained their brand and would have been for the best in the long run.
Woj is caught up in Diddys freak offs.
Finding out woj is a Bron hater is not what expected when I clicked on this video
It actually kinda lines up. Woj mainly talks with NBA GMs. A lot of GMs weren’t happy with how Lebron went to Miami in 2010. That’s probably how he got insider information with all the GMs. Also think about it, the only front office that hates Woj is Miami.
Predicting it now. ESPN makes the predictable hire, and the next preseason game in France features a segment called “Shams-Elysées.”
Being a NBA Insider wasn’t new thing when Woj started. Peter Vecsey was doing it for years as the NBA Insider for The NBA on NBC back in the 90s Bulls days.
Was thinking the other day when him and SAS would retire, it felt like the time was coming.
Shams super HAPPY RIGHT NOW 💯
He stepped down once sean diddy combs got arrested 🤔🤣
Damn this crazy
Gonna miss woj but shams is great hope he can live up to it 😊
If i were Woj, i would lie a couple of times just to create some chaos 😂
Kevin O Connor will be the next Shams
The reason he quit is because the NBA players and front office personnel get paid so much money, that Woj cant afford to buy information from them, from their friends/family, or from their crew/bodyguards. Before the $300 million contracts, Woj could pay someones bodyguard $1000 to get inside information. After the $300 million contracts, security guards and entourages get paid so much, its not worth $1,000 to risk their livelihood...
Woj paving the way for Sham s is what more ppl need to create a lane if the keys to the next generation love to see it
It was a scratch my back I’ll scratch yours situation he would always have nice stuff to say about gms so they would give him the scoop early
Yahoo sports had the fking S tier team. If only they knew what they had and went all in we would have yahoo sports on tv
Doesn't make any sense? He's probably being extorted to leave or aka allowing him to resign or be fired
He left the sinking ship of ESPN and the NBA
I’m sure WOJ is a fine dude, but I am kinda hoping some of the NBA toxicity leaves with him. Would love to get back to actual ball and ball talk instead of hot takes and this weird media ran/player empowerment era where players tell WOJ something about where they want to go or how they’re unhappy then deny it when he leaks it… just for them to then leave later and say they were unhappy. Hope we can get back to pure basketball and cut the off the court nonsense that’s plaguing it. But that crap brings headlines and Shams is just a young WOJ so I’m sure it’ll stay more or less then same
He quit because ESPN is a DEI cesspool and he’s probably sick of competing with Shams. We all know over the last two years “the culture” moved to shams and regarded woj as the old guy
Woj, thank you
he was just a sounding board for some front offices. Unofficial PR to lower the value of players during possible trades. Just like Shams is on Klutch's nuts
Not a fan. He often is more a back door dispenser of NBA press releases.
Not going to lie he needs to be in the basketball HOF he change Sports media
I’m sure he got sick of being forced fed what he could and couldn’t say. He didn’t look comfortable covering the Olympics like he was giving takes he was forced to present.
a lot of great woj moments but him telling Josh Hawley to fuck himself is my favorite
So now Fabrizio Romano stands alone as the "superstar insider"
Shams on mcafee ended woj. Younger certainly less salary, woj made right decision before too late
Woj Had Multiple Connects With Higher Ups In A Lot Of NBA Teams.
Announce Shams Charania to ESPN.
Pat McAfee prefers Shams, so maybe nows the perfect time for Shams to join ESPN
Shams monopoly for the next 10 years, can’t even imagine that life though with a screen time of 12+ hours
Woj will be back next year with his own media company I’m calling it
These insiders blow
St. Bonaventure becomes the next gonzaga 😂😂😂
Basketball economy bubble. A college team hiring the best insider in front office teams. It's like usa president quitting to be a high school director
Now we all have to trust one man WHAT A SHAM
Woj was the original LeBron James hater back when he was writing for Yahoo sports. He gave the blueprint to Skip feckless and the rest of the vampires.
Anyone with eyes hates his game.
Bro goes on to bigger things in basketball and actually becomes the owner of the 31st team in the nba
Can’t stand him - ever since he announced a kids decision before they got to at a family event. Who needs to know these things a few minutes before they are officials ?
Imagine if this story was broken by shams
Woj. People hate the guy. He works for GM and get pay by them.
Why bring Shams into discussion of being the next Woj. It should be you bro!
R.I.P. Woj🙏🏾
Happy trails, Woj.
WOJ will be an NBA GM in the future!
The warriors should have an opening next season.
This"Woj" guy never knew shit. I saw SOOOOO many of his takes and predictions fall short. The Kevin Durant trade comes to mind. How a chubby middle aged man becomes gospel for the NBA always had me wondering
Miami Heat fans rejoicing right now 😂😂😂
Good riddance. He was often enough outright wrong or straight up lying sometimes. He leveraged his influence to play favorites.
no one really cares & he won't be missed..sports is just a waste of time...entertainment but so many take it too seriously
Because he's on those P Diddy tapes......
Definitely took the money from ESPN since he has connections with GMs around the league and can deliver breaking NBA news. Unfortunately, he has certain biases that have documented, as well as going above and beyond protecting his sources from scandals or issues.
Woj is supposed to protect his sources LOL, that's the game
@@jondoe4624 what i meant was that when his sources f***ed up or made a mistake, and it's pretty obvious that the person is guilty, he never reports it, opting to stay silent or dismiss it completely.
@@Junkosei100I mean shams is going to do the same thing with clutch sports and lebron. Shams is close with them
Now we're stuck with crooked Shams. Sad
Woj for gm of the Warriors next season
Dude is shady was gettin info leaked to him. Which he had them on retainer. Allegedly
I think at the time most people were not in love with lebrons decision special
Coulda sworn he took another job? Pretty sure that's the reason
Significantly less money.
I quit NBA when bronny got drafted. Looks like a lot of people are
Good. The guy’s ego got too big. And you guys quoting him like he’s Moses with the stone tablets was a little ridiculous sometimes.
Anyone hate when he'd woj bomb draft picks.
You said he retired in the video, but the title says he “quit”. Was that for clicks? 😅😂
Those are basically the same things. Close enough.
woj low key ruined the draft. picks and trades getting announced before the actual announcement
He got gapped by shams, had to hang it up
No he didn’t 💀the only things shams had over woj was his connections with lebron and clutch sports. Sham and clutch super close 🪦so he’ll never go against lbj or clutch
@@Dizcreti super glaze
@@dieselgoinham super glaze
Shams has never broken any news except LeBron based, when LeBron retires Shams will be left with as much inside information as you or me.
Shams to ESPN
woj is basketballs fabrizio romano except woj doesnt tweet positively about woman abusers
Shams monopoly incoming
ESPN is the worst channel in the world . Hopefully it will get shut down asap.
Lonie Drive
He should retire after that apology cam on nepo baby
Someone else will replace him and report the same crap. Its not like he wasnt sharing any of the same information thats on hoops hype or any other site .
crazyyy
Woj retired right after Diddy got knocked😂
He stepped down…. Because of Diddy case!!!!
😂😂😂😂
Neither woj, nor shams, know anything about the game of basketball. They are reporters who get scoops, but don't know the game. I don't care if I know something now, or 30 minutes later. I'd rather watch basketball.
Shams is only good if it's Klutch clients.
Woj doing all of the inside work, and then has to go to work and listen to fem bots and bozos. Heck, I don't blame him at all.
Is the P Diddy effect 😂we are going to find out he was on the freak offs What are the chances that Diddy got arrested and he Quits. 🤣
this topic is dumb
And ends of days end of days f*** end of days damn The devil's out when devil says he's out you know it's bad all dang it😢
Is he sports Diddy ler?