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interesting shocking read, they’re both NBA puppets who also have become these instruments of influence in the league — they’ll both do anything for a scoop or to one up each other that they’ll do favor for for teams, league officials, agents, or even players by shaping a narrative you want - or maybe if you’re a coach who was fired Woj instead tweets out that you and the team ‘mutually agreed to part ways’ to help you find another job easier, so when you do get your next NBA head coach job you’re inclined to give Woj the inside scoop because you’re in his pocket now…

fu#k the talking heads, the media all a dat there

woj is a glorified league spokesperson. everything he says is coming straight from some team's FO to shape the narrative they want you to run with.

your summary is generally how major league sports reporting has worked for the last decade

historically, they had reporters that were favored by teams, reporters players liked, reporters the league liked - they each reported the story their people wanted to hear.

It all merged with cable TV & ESPN's TV deals with the leagues.
with the tv deals press passes got cut down so the ESPNs and big networks got 1st dibs on any press conferences, lockerroom interviews etc.

everything gets filtered through the deals.

the news the reporters break always has to benefit the TV deals & boost ratings.

there's no competition for the NBA like there is for the NFL with CBS, NBC & Fox, it's just ESPN & Turner for national coverage so you rarely if ever hear the real story about anything that happens.

What the public hears about the NBA is extremely sanitized, the drama is usually fake or a cover

ki1la Cams got next

joshdogg26 said 🔗 woj is a glorified league spokesperson. everything he says is coming straight from some team's FO to shape the narrative they want you to run with.

couldnt agree more

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maybe if you’re a coach who was fired Woj instead tweets out that you and the team ‘mutually agreed to part ways’ to help you find another job easier, so when you do get your next NBA head coach job you’re inclined to give Woj the inside scoop because you’re in his pocket now…

OMG!!!! Such a evil thing to do.

I’ve been saying this about Woj since his yahoo days.

The j3wish Mafia run the NBA

Great read, good material op. Appreciate you

Woj bullies ESPN talent to keep the scoops for himself too

All I know is woj made shams look bad in that scoot/miller situation with the hornets #2 pick

ESPN will hire Shams and have the two work together eventually. We've seen is several times already.

How else would these guys get scoops and sh1t? They gotta have this relationship. The mutually parted ways sh1t is tooth fairy sh1t lol who be believing that sh1t? Why wouldn't they try to out do the other guy? This basic sh1t

This n1gga on they a$s doing ground breaking research and getting exclusive scoops.

Tweezy12 said 🔗 All I know is woj made shams look bad in that scoot/miller situation with the hornets #2 pick

Shams makes Woj look bad on a regular basis so Im sure he dont give a sh1t about one incident. Woj is literally an NBA/ESPN puppet and still gets his scoops beat day after day by Shams. Its actually pretty impressive how he gets the drop on a company stooge on the regular.

kamal1978 said 🔗 The j3wish Mafia run the NBA

Lol its way deeper than that but u on to something the same people who control everything else control sports & entertainment of course

Yall saw what they did to Kyrie because he didn’t want to take that mrna gene therapy

Basketball its self was invented by the Masons

Normal media function... take local info and spin a global narrative!

I mean the names are interchangeable across the board... only difference is personal morality!

That Guy Fly said 🔗 ESPN will hire Shams and have the two work together eventually. We've seen is several times already.

Not saying it’s impossible and I still need to finish reading the article but they used work ‘together’ at Yahoo. Shams turned down an offer to follow Sham to ESPN. I only see ESPN approaching Shams again if Woj is on his way out

Mfs fighting over who can report who got traded first when 3 mins later the whole world gonna know

jester2trife said 🔗 Shams makes Woj look bad on a regular basis so Im sure he dont give a sh1t about one incident. Woj is literally an NBA/ESPN puppet and still gets his scoops beat day after day by Shams. Its actually pretty impressive how he gets the drop on a company stooge on the regular.

It was more than just beating him to the story.

Shams was saying the hornets was drafting Scoot
Woj was saying miller...

They went back and forth about who's sources were right....woj was clowning him leading up saying hed see...shams stood his ground and was loud and wrong as fu#k

Shams is a ghost I don’t think Iv ever seen him on tv if I have it wasn’t for long.

jmheight1 said 🔗 maybe if you’re a coach who was fired Woj instead tweets out that you and the team ‘mutually agreed to part ways’ to help you find another job easier, so when you do get your next NBA head coach job you’re inclined to give Woj the inside scoop because you’re in his pocket now… OMG!!!! Such a evil thing to do.

lol read the article is many more deeper layers - like Woj writing hit pieces about player/agents if they don’t play ball with him like he did Lebron … or Woj and Shams ki1ling off the local beat writers from getting scoops from the teams they cover because the organizations are scared to break news with anyone else because they don’t wanna he on bad terms with Woj/Shams because they could retaliate by leaking information to rival organizations… real grimey type sh1t