Usually, everyone is used to chatting about football in Brother Di.

Today, let's talk about the people who gave us basketball information.

If you follow the NBA news, you must be familiar with these two names:Adrian Wojnarowski and Shams Charania.

Woj is known as the Woj God or Woj God by fans for quickly and accurately reporting countless exciting news in the league.

Woj and Shams are among the top reporters in the NBA because they have achieved the ultimate in timeliness, accuracy and exclusivity of their news.

In the offseason, these two appeared more often on the information platforms we follow than James and Curry... It can be said that these two people have opened a window for fans to understand the latest developments of NBA players.

When I woke up this morning, I saw this news:

Shams, 30, is leaving Stadium after six years.

As previously reported, Shams' contracts with media outlets The Athletic and FanDuel TV are also set to expire, with sources saying it is uncertain whether he will remain at both outlets as negotiations continue.

Considering that NBC and Amazon have just won the NBA's new rights cycle contract, it cannot be ruled out that they will pay a high price to poach people.

Over the past few years, Shams, as a true superstar of NBA journalists, has reported on too many players entering the free market, and this time, the headline should look like this:

Shams: Shams is about to test the free market, aiming for the highest salary!

Break the news yourself, you can't let Woj rob it this time...

When a journalist is at the top of the industry, he or she doesn't have to worry about a new contract.

Especially in the context of the NBA's new broadcast contracts with sky-high orders, top media people like Shams, player trainers, and workers in this league have the opportunity to make more money.

As the most successful basketball league in the world, the NBA has matured in every way.

Some brothers may wonder: where is the source of Shams? How could he be so quick and ruthless?

About the source of the message.

Let's start with the relationship between Adrian Wojnarowski and Shams Charania.

Woj is currently working at ESPN, and Shams is at The Athletic, Shams was Woj's apprentice at Yahoo Sports in the early days, and the two have a mentor-apprentice relationship.

When Woj launched The Vertica at Yahoo in 2015, he immediately invited Shmas to join him.

Woshen gave the little brother a lot of resources and opportunities to show himself at the beginning, and the outside world once called Shmas "Woj's godson".

But in 17 years, Woj chose to leave Yahoo and officially join ESPN... These two began to have a competitive relationship.

Shams didn't end up staying at Yahoo either, and in 2018, he brought his talent to The Athletic.

After several years of accumulation, he and the master can be said to be bright for a while, and now there are signs of taking pictures of the old-timers on the beach...

So, where does the source of Shams come from?

Players, agents, media workers and team executives.

As a simple example, these NBA fame players will sign an agreement with the team's agent, who will send the message to the roster the way the team wants it to be, in order to shape the social media image and direction of the team's hope.

Conversely, if a player wants to be in a good position to negotiate a new contract, does he need shams to let it go?

Even if it is to force the palace management, it is necessary to deliberately let the news out...

As a result, shams are very profitable.

But he has come to this day, and he is also the Michael Jordan in his own story.

In the journalist industry, good news really runs out.

Because you have to deal with a lot of relationships, deal with a lot of news, and you stay at home all day long, and you can't get good material.

Let's talk about Shams' upbringing.

He is a descendant of Pakistani immigrants and was born in Chicago.

His parents immigrated from Pakistan to the United States to practice medicine. For a child like him, his family's expectations of his profession are often doctors, lawyers, engineers...

But Shams did not inherit their parents' talent in this area.

He loves basketball and he is excellent at writing.

Every basketball teenager born in Chicago may have a "Jordan dream". But Shams' dream was shattered in his sophomore year of high school, with a height of 1.75 meters and mediocre physical fitness, he was expelled from the varsity team in his sophomore year of high school.

Since then, he has wanted to use his excellent writing to document the NBA.

Later, he became the school's sports editor, started a blog about the Bulls, and wrote for the well-known basketball information website "Real GM"...

By writing and then running the news, he gradually made a name for himself in this way.

On January 6, 2014, it was Shams who first broke the news that the Bulls sent Lore Deng to the Cavaliers in exchange for Bynum and three future second-round picks, and he has made a name for himself ever since.

Since then, it's out of control.

He can come to this day and become a "superstar" among NBA reporters, which is inseparable from Bole and the platform.

But I would say that his efforts.

Shams has revealed that he usually spends 17-18 hours a day in front of a computer screen.

At times like the NBA draft and free agent markets, that number rises to 20 hours.

He once posted that on the first day of the free market, his mobile phone screen time was 21 hours and 34 minutes.

On average, he sees a total of 550 text messages, phone calls and emails a day, and that number swells to 750 when he's busy.

Journalists are a very hard profession, if they are competent enough, they can be said to work with their lives, and for Shams, there is no such thing as lazy sleep at all, basically all year round.

Even if there is no big news, he needs to constantly communicate with people and maintain relationships... Otherwise, why did the other party give you information?

So, shams make a lot of money, as it should be.