Darren Rovell pays someone to monitor X, give him ‘Code Red’ notifications
"As you know, this is an exhausting business. That's why I'm 46 and look 66."
"As you know, this is an exhausting business. That's why I'm 46 and look 66."
"I always check the phone, you just never know what could be on there."
Passan could make the shift over to being an NBA insider at ESPN in light of Adrian Wojnarowski's departure.
"To just walk away at the top of your game. You're the king, man."
"I retired from ESPN and from the news industry, but this is no retirement job for me."
"He is talking to everyone at this point."
"The immediacy gave many of us more exposure and advanced our careers. Woj was the extreme example of that."
We may see a lot more of Brian Windhorst, Ramona Shelburne and others rather than a new face at the worldwide leader.
"Was Woj an ER doctor during COVID, I wasn’t sure!"
"It felt like Mort really worked the room."
"He didn't want to have to...take your phone with you to the urinal and hold it in one hand while you take care of your business in the other."
"I've been in sports media one way or another since 1990, and in that time, no one has done a job better than he has done his."
"There's only one answer."
"The Barry Sanders of Insiders."
"I understand the commitment required in my role and it’s an investment that I’m no longer driven to make."
ESPN insider Adrian Wojnarowski must have been licking his chops to drop a Woj Bomb about an NBA coach with the last name 'Oppenheimer.'
"It would be so frustrating because I'm used to knowing a lot of things."
"Stop listening to Woj and them. We didn't offer Klay Thompson $80 million … Y'all crazy, crazy talk."
"Reserved for Woj."
ESPN insider Adrian Wojnarowski pushed back at critics accusing the Lakers of nepotism in drafting Bronny James on Thursday.
Shams Charania was able to get the last laugh over Adrian Wojnarowski and ESPN by spoiling the Bronny James Lakers pick on X.
"But you're not going to be imagining him next to Victor Wembanyama."
"I always felt like also I do need to remain objective. And I can't just do somebody's bidding to get certain stories."