Then, Shams dominated the undrafted free agent portion 10 to 1 in the hours after. https://t.co/XM7bHrkNH7. The acquisition is for the 1% of junkies who are maniacally checking for updates every few minutes, as opposed to those who check the headlines when they get home from work, or watch them scroll across the ticker while they watch their games. by Outkick July 10, 2020, 6:32 pm updated July 10, 2020, 6:41 pm 4 Comments. This stems from an actual ESPN broadcast where Woj walked into a live broadcast accidentally. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. October 18, 2020, 2:17 pm, by _g1.setAttribute('src', _g1.getAttribute('data-src') ); Total 96; On today’s Outkick the Show, Clay Travis ripped ESPN NBA insider Adrian Wojnarowski after he sent a “fuck you” to U.S. Both ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski (right) and Shams Charania of Stadium and The Athletic spent much of Thursday night on Twitter tipping off picks during the NBA Draft.
Shams Charania likes anti-Woj tweet, setting social media ablaze. Senator Josh Hawley. Yes, basketball fans/nerds are defending and cheering on their favorite NBA writer more passionately than they did a … While the 2019 NBA draft moved along smoothly on ESPN Thursday night, much of the drama actually played out on Twitter, with Adrian Wojnarowski attempting to tip picks and scoop his former understudy, Shams Charania. Sidenote: During the trade deadline, Shams had a hilarious live stream of him staring at a laptop in what looked like an interrogation room with his Twitter feed scrolling on the side, a scene from a weird mashup of Paranormal Activity and Searching (made even creepier by the fact that the stream didn't have any audio). 20 pick to select Washington standout Mattise Thybulle.
Senator Josh Hawley. Obviously, it wasn’t Shams in the original photo.
While Woj put up 37 tweets, Shams managed just 17. Wojâs dominance at the trade deadline lead to this GIF of Woj dunking on his protege. Wojnarowski made a name for himself during the 2011 NBA Draft, where he took the league by storm tweeting draft picks before they could be announced on ESPN. A whirlwind of news surrounding the Coronavirus (COVID-19) this evening has led the NBA to take drastic steps to the NBA season, suspending it all together according to Adrian Wojnarowski and Shams Charania.
We call this process natural language generation (NLG). First it was a local Chicago paper, then the sports site RealGM, at which he began breaking stories, all while he was still in school. Yahoo realized this – they didn't mind letting both Woj and Shams go, because they knew the duo didn't drive clicks or contribute to prestige-level writing. Sixers trading J Simmons and 42 pick for cash considerations to Wizards, according to league source. That's it. The gap between how little their role matters and how important they've made themselves is considerable. And as we've seen, this matters for a total of about five days every year. Maybe that explains why he was much less creative this time around with his verbs than last year, when he peppered his tweets with words like “targeting” and “tantalized.”.
Bobby Burack Connect with friends faster than ever with the new Facebook app. The Nikola Mirotic trade had a difference of eight hours, Markelle Fultz trade had a difference of five hours, and the aforementioned draft picks are tipped just seconds before.
But for the most part, Woj absolutely ran up the scoreboard on Shams. Woj & Shams: NBA season has been suspended Nathan S. 3/12/2020. Senator Josh Hawley. Did he change his mind on Clay? } The Indiana Pacers were set to tip off Saturday against the Philadelphia 76ers, who tied the Pacers for fifth in the East following a home win against Detroit. for a year before leaving to join both Stadium and The Athletic. But ESPN's acquisition of Woj shows just where the priorities lie. Take the Tobias Harris trade from just a few days ago – Woj tweeted the trade at 11:17PM, and the NBA press release (which can't happen until all the paperwork goes through) was at 11:08AM, a 12-hour difference that is understandable when you consider that the deal was agreed to late into the night. Shams is the underdog, the young gun. _g1 = document.getElementById('g1-logo-mobile-inverted-source'); It merely shifts the reaction cycle up by a bit – we find out what happened, argue about who won, write think pieces about why it matters, and move on to the next team, just slightly earlier than we would have otherwise. Shams… According to ESPN, the Jazz/Thunder game was seconds from tipping off when Oklahoma City’s head medical staffer rushed to the floor to speak with the officials due to the illness listings on the injury report to Rudy Gobert and Emmanuel Mudiay, leading to a postponement of the game. Shams vs. Woj Moves to Clay Travis’ Mentions Battlefront. With Al Horford potentially gone, is Nikola Vucevic an option for Celtics? Baltimore explosion: 1 dead and 7 hospitalized after homes explode. Often lost among the deluge of content is that NBA Twitter actually serves a journalistic purpose – news of free agent signings, trades, and minutiae all get reported first on Twitter. Woj had the Isaiah Thomas trade at 12:10 p.m. Shams had it at 12:11 p.m. (Woj also had that Jordan Clarkson and Larry Nance were going to the Cavaliers in that deal at 12:05 p.m., by the way.). Yahoo) when reporting on a story. Shams tweeted it at 2:08 p.m . One like, in particular, was noteworthy. _g1 = document.getElementById('g1-logo-inverted-source');
By my calculations, Shams barely edged out Woj 25 picks to 23 (including trades).
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Woj had the Emmanuel Mudiay trade at 2:03 p.m. Shams tweeted it at 2:08 p.m. October 18, 2020, 7:30 am, by Covering the Bases with Big Y! Gary Sheffield, Jr It was also Wojnarowski who broke the news that the Sixers would be trading up four spots to the No. From 2015-18, Shams was the national NBA Insider for Yahoo Sports. 20 pick to select Washington standout Mattise Thybulle, who was forced out of ESPN to make room for Wojnarowski, It’s a new day for Sixers front office | Podcast, Sixers adding two big front office hires as their busy offseason picks up speed, Sixers fans can expect the best version of Tobias Harris during his second stint with Doc Rivers | Mailbag, Sixers part ways with vice president of strategy Sergi Oliva, Former head coach Dave Joerger joins Sixers staff as defensive specialist, Rajon Rondo would be a great fit for Sixers, while Dave Joerger could solidify the defense | Podcast. The only whiff of the night came from Charania, who initially reported that the Cleveland Cavaliers were “targeting” Kentucky forward Keldon Johnson with the No. The NBA community on Twitter is a shining example of one of the things that Twitter does well. Cupcake Woj.