In early August, news emerged that Vice President Kamala Harris had chosen Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate for the presidential election. However, it seems that a prominent sports figure was originally set to break the story.
Chris Mannix of Sports Illustrated recently interviewed former ESPN NBA insider Adrian Wojnarowski for an article he published on Thursday. During the conversation, Wojnarowski revealed that Harris had selected him to announce that Walz would be her vice-presidential candidate.
“He revolutionized what it means to be a reporter, harnessing social media to disseminate breaking news to an audience with an insatiable appetite for it. What began as an experiment — ‘This is your new spot for Adrian Wojnarowski and Johnny Ludden’s breaking NBA news,’ read Woj’s maiden tweet the day before the 2009 draft. (Ludden remains at Yahoo Sports, where he is the editor in chief.) — evolved into a platform with a Wembanyama-like reach,” Mannix wrote for Sports Illustrated on Thursday.
“Consider: In August, representatives from Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign reached out. They had settled on their nominee for vice president and wanted Woj to break it. Alas, another outlet scooped him before he could.”
Though the plans ultimately fell through, this revelation sparked a flurry of reactions in the comments section of the article.
“That’s kinda dope not going to lie,” one person commented on X.
“Would’ve been the biggest woj bomb,” another added.
“That would’ve broken the internet for real,” someone else remarked.
“So this was very unserious from the beginning,” another commenter wrote.
“They wanted a woj bomb,” someone quipped.
“She still would have lost,” another person speculated.
Wojnarowski retired from the media in September and now serves as the general manager of the men’s basketball team at St. Bonaventure University, his alma mater.
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