following this announcement, the conversation immediately shifted to who might step in and fill that gap. There’s one obvious answer there that every NBA fan seemed to land on: Shams Charania.

Shams Charania is one of the likely targets of ESPN to replace Adrian Wojnarowski, who has retired from sports journalism. Charania is a free agent and is the ideal successor to Wojnarowski.

And now the focus turns to his replacement. ESPN is “likely” to talk to fellow NBA insiders Shams Charania and Chris Haynes about a potential role, sources told Front Office Sports ...

Wojnarowski and Shams Charania have long been viewed as the two best reporters in the NBA. Both are very connected, and the younger Charania learned from Wojnarowski for a brief period when the ...