Adrian Wojnarowski dismissed his former NBA insider life after learning about the Luka Dončić trade, choosing instead to go to bed instead. Edit by Liam McGuire, Comeback Media.
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Adrian Wojnarowski might be auctioning off the old phones in which he broke some of the biggest NBA news of the decade, but that doesn’t mean he has any desire to watch from the other side of the fence.

Now the general manager of his alma mater’s men’s basketball team, St. Bonaventure, Woj has left the world of scoops and sources behind in what he dismissed post-retirement as nothing more than “vapor.”

And that blockbuster trade sending Luka Dončić and Anthony Davis to new homes? Just more vapor. Sure, Shams Charania dropping the bombshell in the early hours made waves across the NBA world, but for Woj, that life is over. Not because it lacked recognition or financial reward but because he simply didn’t want to live it anymore.

He learned about the Los Angeles Lakers-Dallas Mavericks blockbuster trade like the rest of us.

And then? He went to bed.

In the hours after the trade, fans joked about Woj’s old instincts kicking in, likening his retired phone to the Green Goblin mask calling out to Norman Osborn. But in reality, nothing could have been further from the truth.

“[I] was going to bed. Got a couple of text messages from a couple of people in the NBA,” Wojnarowski relayed to former sports business reporter Darren Rovell. “I shut my phone off, and I went to sleep. I was focused on, um, we had a big recruiting visit that I was planning — and that was my focus, was working on his visit and being prepared for it. I’ve not spent much time thinking about it.”

Woj understands the gravity of the trade and how it affects the NBA landscape, but he also has no interest in the backstory. He’s like a retired hero who sees the Bat-Signal and simply chooses to ignore it.

“I don’t know the reasons [for the trade],” he added. “Haven’t asked anybody. I just was focused on the job that I got. And there will be other big trades and free agent signings and hirings and firings, and I’ll be focused on my job.”

In another life, Woj was the one breaking the news that shook the league to its core.

But being an NBA insider is someone else’s problem now.

About Sam Neumann

Since the beginning of 2023, Sam has been a staff writer for Awful Announcing and The Comeback. A 2021 graduate of Temple University, Sam is a Charlotte native, who currently calls Greenville, South Carolina his home. He also has a love/hate relationship with the New York Mets and Jets.

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