Have a look at Shams Charania ESPN salary and net worth in 2024
Shams Charania will take over as ESPN’s senior NBA insider and his mentor Adrian Wojnarowski.
After Adrian Wojnarowski unexpectedly announced he was leaving sports media to become general manager of the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team. Shams Charania and a few intriguing internal candidates who were already employed by the company were regarded as front-runners for the job.
Shams Charania ESPN salary, contract and net worth in 2024
Following Woj’s resignation as a reporter, Charania was the logical candidate to take over. He broke several of the biggest scoops of the past several weeks, including the trade of Karl-Anthony Towns to the New York Knicks.
I am honored to join ESPN as the companyโs Senior NBA Insider. I canโt wait to be part of an incredible group of colleagues at ESPN and serve the sports audience worldwide. pic.twitter.com/sBDFGIpkb6
โ Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) October 7, 2024
The exact value of Charaniaโs new contract with ESPN has not yet been revealed but he earned between $3 million and $4 million annually during his tenure with The Athletic, Stadium, and FanDuel. In comparison, Wojnarowski earned around $7 million per season at ESPN and it is rumored that he could earn half of what Woj used to take home per year as a senior NBA insider. His exact net worth is unknown at the moment.
30-year-old Shams Charania was born on April 1, 1994 to parents who had relocated to the United States. Shams is 5ft 9in tall.
He went to New Trier High School and was reared in Wilmette, Illinois. In 2017, he received his degree from Loyola University Chicago.
Shams Charania career
At the age of seventeen, Shams Charania started writing about sports for ChicagoNow, a Chicago Tribune subsidiary, covering the Chicago Bulls. Charania started blogging for RealGM in 2012 and covering minor league deals. After a few years, Yahoo Sports employee Adrian Wojnarowski became interested in Charania.
After joining Yahoo, Charania started reporting on trades and high-profile signings in the summer of 2016. These stories included the signings of Jamal Crawford with the Los Angeles Clippers, DeMar DeRozan with the Toronto Raptors, Luol Deng with the Los Angeles Lakers, and Dwight Howard with the Atlanta Hawks. Wojnarowski and Charania developed a friendly rivalry as a result of this.
Shams declared on August 14, 2018, that he will be switching to The Athletic and Stadium at the end of the month, and that he would be leaving Yahoo Sports. Before even NFL insiders in 2023, Charania revealed the first three picks in the NFL draft on Twitter. This prompted a lot of fans to respond with jokes on the platforms.
Charania receives compensation from the sportsbook operator FanDuel. Charania made the announcement that he would be joining ESPN as Senior NBA Insider on October 7, 2024. He took over for Adrian Wojnarowski, who resigned to take a position as general manager of the men’s basketball program at St. Bonaventure University.