Despite a report from Awful Announcing stating that reporters associated with NBA broadcast partners were asked by the league not to tip picks, the draft-night focus of ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski could not be shaken. But while Yahoo Sports’ Shams Charania appeared to outright ignore the league’s order, his former mentor Woj added just a bit of winking uncertainty to his spoilers this year, maintaining some plausible deniability with tweets like:
Woj has been playing this game all night, though some attempts at subtlety were better than others:
- “has a laser on”
- “are fixated on”
- “is tantalized by”
- “have no plans to pass on”
- “are unlikely to resist”
- “has cleared the way”
- “are enamored with”
- “is zeroing in on”
- “is determined to select”
- “is locked on”
- “is locked in on”
- “prefers”
- “are targeting”
- “is focused on”
- “has been focused on”
- Getting scooped by your own protégé
- “are on”