Shams Charania

Shams Charania is an American sports reporter for The Athletic covering the NBA.

Early life

Charania is from Wilmette, Illinois[1] and attended New Trier High School. He graduated from Loyola University Chicago.

Career

He began his sportswriting career at age 17 covering the Chicago Bulls for ChicagoNow, a subsidiary of the Chicago Tribune. In 2012, Charania began writing for RealGM, and established himself by reporting small transactions around the league.

After several years of breaking increasingly significant scoops, Charania caught the attention of Adrian Wojnarowski, then working for Yahoo Sports, who described Charania as "the best young reporter in [the] business".[2] After joining Yahoo, Charania began to break significant deals in the NBA. He was the first to break a number of high-profile signings in the summer of 2016,[3] including Dwight Howard's move to the Atlanta Hawks, DeMar DeRozan's re-signing with the Toronto Raptors, Luol Deng's signing with the Los Angeles Lakers, and Jamal Crawford's signing with the Los Angeles Clippers.[4] This set off a friendly rivalry between Wojnarowski and Charania.[5] In 2017, Charania broke signings by Stephen Curry, Blake Griffin, Jeff Teague, and Paul Millsap.[6]

Leaving Yahoo, joining the Athletic

On August 14, 2018, Shams announced via his twitter account he would be leaving Yahoo! Sports for The Athletic and Stadium at the end of the month.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "How 23-year-old Shams Charania became one of the NBA's top news-breakers before even graduating college". Awful Announcing. 2017-11-29. Retrieved 2018-01-29.
  2. ↑ Wojnarowski, Adrian (6 January 2014). "Big-time story break by the best young reporter in business, @ShamsCharania. This kid is still in school. He's a Parker-Wiggins combo". @wojespn. Retrieved 2018-01-30.
  3. ↑ Russell, Jake (2016-06-25). "'The Vertical' NBA draft show live stream was a huge hit with fans. Sorry, ESPN". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2018-01-30.
  4. ↑ "Meet Shams Charania, the College Senior Breaking NBA News in Class". Complex. Retrieved 2018-01-30.
  5. ↑ "Adrian Wojnarowski And Shams Charania Now Do Battle For NBA Scoops". UPROXX. 2017-07-13. Retrieved 2018-01-30.
  6. ↑ "Has Adrian Wojnarowski lost his title as king of NBA Twitter?". Sporting News. 2017-07-03. Retrieved 2018-01-30.
  7. ↑ "Twitter". 2018-08-14. Retrieved 2018-08-14.
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