Adrian Wojnarowski, the former king of the N.B.A. scoop at ESPN, is auctioning off personal items to raise money for his employer, St. Bonaventure University.
Sports journalists can collect a lot of detritus: old ID cards, press credentials to get into big games, phones that stop working or become obsolete. Most of it winds up in the trash, unvalued and worthless.
Unless it belongs to Adrian Wojnarowski.
Wojnarowski, the basketball news-breaker who recently retired from ESPN, is auctioning his castoff items to benefit the men’s basketball program at St. Bonaventure University, where he now works as the team’s general manager.
Want the credential that got Woj, as he has long been known, into the 2023 N.B.A. draft? As of Tuesday morning, the bidding was at $900. His ID badge for ESPN? That’s at $2,000 (and no, you can’t use it to actually get into the network’s headquarters).
But the likely stars of the auction are the smartphones that buzzed in Wojnarowski’s pockets at all hours with texts and calls from N.B.A. owners, agents, coaches or others offering coveted scoops. The iPhone that was used to break the news of the huge Paul George trade in 2019 is at $1,500, while a different phone that he used to report the 2023 N.B.A. draft lottery is at $900.
Dinner with Wojnarowski and a video call from him are also available. Bidding closes next Tuesday.
Wojnarowski did not immediately respond to a request for comment through the university.
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