Even presidential candidates needed a Woj Bomb.
Vice President Kamala Harris’ camp needed former ESPN NBA insider Adrian Wojnarowski to interrupt the information that Minnesota Governor Tim Walz had been chosen as her working mate within the 2024 presidential election, Sports activities Illustrated revealed in a profile of the brand new St. Bonaventure’s males’s basketball common supervisor.
“Consider: In August, representatives from Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign reached out,” SI reported Thursday morning. “They had settled on their nominee for vice president and wanted Woj to break it. Alas, another outlet scooped him before he could.”
That the Vice President needed a sports activities reporter to interrupt stated information exhibits the standing Wojnarowski had amongst nationwide reporters and the attain of his platform earlier than he left journalism.
Wojnarowski has 6.4 million X followers and developed a repute for his scoops, which might be labeled as Woj Bombs.
NBA followers all the time knew to observe his account throughout free company and the commerce deadline since Wojnarowski may tweet a franchise-altering transfer at any second.
Not many, although, would have anticipated Wojnarowski to interrupt political information.
Wojnarowski as soon as made political information when he acquired a suspension from ESPN after responding to a press launch from Missouri senator Josh Hawley in regards to the NBA’s relationship with China with “f–k you.”
Breaking the VP announcement — it’s unclear which publication broke the information earlier than it was formally introduced on Aug. 6 — would have been one of many nice Woj Bombs earlier than his surprising ESPN exit in September.
All of the lengthy hours chasing scoops — irrespective of the scale — finally turned too huge of a burden and he as an alternative now works for his alma mater.
Wojnarowski additionally revealed within the SI profile that he was identified with prostate most cancers in March and that factored into his choice.
He stated his prognosis is “good.”
“Cancer didn’t force him out, Woj insists. But it did bring some clarity,” Chris Mannix wrote. “‘I didn’t want to spend one more day of my life waiting on someone’s MRI or hitting an agent at 1 a.m. about an ankle sprain,’ he says.”
