Yahoo Sports’ Adrian Wojnarowski has finalized a deal with ESPN and will begin working for the company by the start of NBA free agency on July 1, a person with knowledge of the deal who is not authorized to speak publicly confirmed.
Wojnarowski will be joined at ESPN by other staffers of The Vertical, the NBA-dedicated website and podcast launched by Yahoo Sports last year.
Wojnarowski has been one of the go-to sources for breaking NBA news for years, especially via his Twitter account, which has nearly 1.7 million followers.