NBA Twitter newsbreaker Adrian Wojnarowskiis retiring
by Richard Lawler from The Verge - All Posts on (#6QTTP)
Adrian Wojnarowski looks on during the 2024 NBA Draft | Photo by Michelle Farsi / NBAE via Getty Images Adrian Wojnarowski has been reporting insider NBA news for ESPN since 2017, but he's best known for his news-breaking tweets about trades, free agency signings, and other deals. Now Wojnarowski says he's retiring from the NBA beat.
For basketball fans, Woj bombs" became a reason to have your phone on and Twitter notifications set, both to get instant updates about player movement and to avoid getting sucked in by fake accounts and rumors. In a 2015 GQ interview, Wojnarowski said his Twitter stardom got started with the 2009 NBA draft:
When did you first realize that Twitter could be such a powerful weapon in the breaking news?
I guess it was the 2009 Draft. It was the day before the draft and I was with Johnny Ludden, my editor at...