{"id":404520,"date":"2024-12-05T20:15:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T19:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/de\/nachrichten\/adrian-wojnarowski-diagnosed-with-prostate-cancer\/"},"modified":"2024-12-05T20:15:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T19:15:00","slug":"adrian-wojnarowski-diagnosed-with-prostate-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/de\/nachrichten\/adrian-wojnarowski-diagnosed-with-prostate-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Adrian Wojnarowski Diagnosed With Prostate Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adrian Wojnarowski is no longer part of the NBA fan\u2019s daily routine. However, he has amassed more than six million followers on X for his work around the league, and he remains a prominent figure in its media coverage. The former <em>ESPN<\/em> and <em>Yahoo Sports<\/em> reporter was diagnosed with prostate cancer last March. That turned out to be one of the final pushes to leave a profession that, in his own words, \u201cno longer fulfilled me,\u201d as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/college-basketball\/adrian-wojnarowski-next-chapter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">he says<\/a> in <em>Sports Illustrated<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, Woj says the cancer was caught early and is at a stage he can treat without chemotherapy. He also rules out any threat of metastasis. He has no symptoms. However, hearing the word \u201ccancer\u201d made him rethink his life, which led to the line in his farewell letter to journalism that reads \u201ctime is not infinite.\u201d He didn\u2019t retire from journalism because of cancer; he simply \u201cdidn\u2019t want to spend another day of my life waiting on someone\u2019s medical tests or calling an agent at one in the morning about a sprained ankle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He now enjoys his work at St. Bonaventure, his college alma mater. He had already been doing consulting for them, but fully committing to the project was a challenge he wanted to take on himself.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Cover photo from Sports Illustrated)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adrian Wojnarowski is no longer part of the NBA fan\u2019s daily routine. However, he has amassed more than six million followers on X for his &#8230; <a title=\"Adrian Wojnarowski Diagnosed With Prostate Cancer\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/de\/nachrichten\/adrian-wojnarowski-diagnosed-with-prostate-cancer\/\" aria-label=\"Mehr Informationen \u00fcber Adrian Wojnarowski Diagnosed With Prostate Cancer\">Mehr lesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14497,"featured_media":404514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nachrichten","no-featured-image-padding","resize-featured-image"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/woj.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Niko Jens Schwann","author_link":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/de\/autor\/niko-jens-schwann\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}