The “student” therefore follows completely in the footsteps of his “master”. As he has press release on his social networks, Shams Charania joins in fact ESPN from this season, succeeding Adrian Wojnarowski. The one who kind of trained him in the middle of the last decade and who recently retired from the media, in order to become an executive at the University of St. Bonaventure.
In competition in particular with Chris Haynes (TNT, Bleacher Report), the young 30-year-old journalist was certainly the most natural lead of all, when we know that he never stops releasing scoops throughout the season. Exercising ourselves so far with “Woj” on the evenings of trade deadlineDraft or even free agencysince he left for ESPN in 2017.
Mainly receiving his information from players' agents, Shams Charania worked in recent years for The Athletic, but also Stadium and FanDuel. Above all, he should obtain a juicy contract from ESPN, which, let us remember, paid Adrian Wojnarowski to the tune of 10 million dollars per year…