Former ESPN sportswriter and senior NBA insider Adrian Wojnarowski was honored Friday with the Curt Gowdy Media Award. Nicknamed Woj, the 55-year-old was considered one of 4 Gowdy award winners, receiving the respect within the perception class.
“I solely had ever hoped to have a profession as a sportswriter, and so to me this honor is reflective of all of the individuals who believed in me, gave me alternatives, helped me alongside this highway, and that’s what involves thoughts first,” Wojnarowski advised the community.
An enormous congratulations to the nice Adrian Wojnarowski, this 12 months’s Curt Gowdy Media Award recipient.
The award — named in honor of the late legendary sports activities broadcaster — is introduced to members of the print, digital and transformative media whose efforts have made a… pic.twitter.com/YBhujBc9Oj
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“So lots of my idols, from Jackie MacMullan to Michael Wilbon to Doris Burke to Harvey Araton, have been honored beforehand, and it’s past my wildest goals to be in that firm,” Wojnarowski added.
The Curt Gowdy Media Award is introduced to members of the print, digital, and transformative media whose efforts have made a major contribution to the sport of basketball.
The Gowdy winners shall be honored Sept. 5-6 alongside this 12 months’s Naismith Corridor of Fame class. NBA legends Carmelo Anthony and Dwight Howard and WNBA icon Sue Hen are among the many candidates for 2025 enshrinement.
Adrian Wojnarowski Retired From ESPN In September
Wojnarowski’s journalism profession started in his native Connecticut in Waterbury, the place he lined the College of Connecticut earlier than leaving for The Fresno Bee in California after which the Bergen Report in New Jersey.
In accordance with his previous ESPN biography, Wojnarowski was then employed by Yahoo Sports activities in 2007. A decade later, he joined ESPN in his hometown of Bristol, Connecticut, and went on to turn out to be among the best sportswriters.
“I got here alongside at a novel time in media,” Wojnarowski stated, “and I got here alongside at a time media and the league have been altering, and I used to be the beneficiary of excellent timing and unbelievable help from folks I labored with on the NBA, ESPN and Yahoo.”
In September, Wojnarowski introduced his retirement from “The Worldwide Chief in Sports activities” and agreed to turn out to be the final supervisor of the lads’s basketball program at his alma mater, St. Bonaventure College.
“I’m hopeful that I can convey worth in loads of areas to our basketball program and open doorways for our younger males’s futures in methods each professionally and personally,” he stated then.
In Might 2022, Wojnarowski obtained an honorary doctorate from St. Bonaventure. He’s additionally a 1991 graduate of the western New York college and a distinguished alumnus from the Jandoli College of Communication.
