Adrian Wojnarowski Reveals Cancer Diagnosis

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Adrian Wojnarowski Reveals Cancer Diagnosis

Former ESPN NBA insider Adrian Wojnarowski was diagnosed with prostate cancer in March, six months before his shocking retirement from the network.

The news was revealed in a Sports Illustrated profile of the 55-year-old published Thursday morning, in which he said his prognosis is good.

Wojnarowski left ESPN to become the general manager for the men’s basketball program at his alma mater, St. Bonaventure.

When Wojnarowski said in his statement announcing he was leaving ESPN that “time isn’t in endless supply,” he confirmed that was a reference to his cancer diagnosis.

The longtime reporter broke down his thought process upon hearing the diagnosis from his doctor:

“When you hear cancer, you think about it going through your body like Pac-Man,” Wojnarowski told SI. “Prostate cancer, it generally stays confined to your prostate and is typically slow growing.”

The cancer is said to be “pretty limited in scope. He’s asymptomatic, does not currently need surgery and will have the cancer monitored.

This was not the reason he left ESPN it was more burnout.

“I didn’t want to spend one more day of my life waiting on someone’s MRI or hitting an agent at 1 a.m. about an ankle sprain,” he told SI.

One very interesting part of the article on the exclusive interview was when Wojnarowski mentioned that he took notice of how many associated with ESPN did not travel to Arkansas for a memorial for Chris Mortensen, a longtime NFL insider for the network who died from throat cancer in March.

“It made me remember that the job isn’t everything,” Wojnarowski told SI. “In the end it’s just going to be your family and close friends. And it’s also, like, nobody gives a s–t. Nobody remembers [breaking stories] in the end. It’s just vapor.”

In fact, Woj said his son, Ben, told him …

“People think your job is great. I think your job f***ing sucks. Retire and go travel with Mom.”