[Charania] announces that he will be participating in the All-Star Celebrity Game this year: “I’m a shooter. I can handle the ball, and I can make my floaters. Shout out Danny Green.”
The Bucks could do the funniest thing ever while he’s on the court away from his phone.
He’d have his phone strapped to his arm and stop mid game to send the tweet.
There’s definitely going to be a mid game trade or signing in this celebrity game that Shams is going to post about
He’d better hold off announcing one that he has in the barrel, then dramatically sub himself out of the game and tweet it just to farm engagement.
You do realize the trade deadline is before the Celebrity All Star game right?
Then have him announce his own trade to the other celebrity team and switch jerseys
That’s actually pretty damn good
Only if the other team has Woj, and he drops a couple of three point bombs before hand.
It’s actually on the ball just in case
Like a QB calling an audible with his play-call sleeve
stop
I mean, speak to type is a thing.
We’ll know what’s up when he raises his arm to his face and mutter something in his iWatch.
Breaking News: The Milwaukee Bucks are trading Shams Charania for draft picks and cash considerations
To who?
Wizards
The chasm
Yahoo Sports
Trade deadline is before the game unfortunately
Just make him save the biggest blockbuster trade to announce on the court
Otherwise he wouldn’t be playing.
Cut giannis then
Have giannis destroy him and tell him to stfu?
Retire before Celebrity All-Stars to eligible to play, and unretire right after the game is gonna be an all time pettiness. 😂
I’m pretty sure they can’t because they specifically moved the trade deadline a couple weeks earlier a few years ago so that can no longer happen.
All Star weekend is after the deadline but yes
Tweet that Chams is unhappy and looking for a trade?
He’d run over to whoever’s mic’d up to announce the trade
“Ain’t shit happening in the trade market so I figured I’d lace up”
Imagine him sprinting to the locker room midway through the second quarter to send a tweet about Giannis being unsure about his future with the Bucks
[Charania] BREAKING: Just had a one on one with Giannis here at the NBA ALL STAR GAME and he told me his favorite restaurant was in MIAMI. Representatives with the Milwaukee Bucks refused to comment.
“We couldnt get any real celebs so I picked the first guy I saw when I turned on the TV”
~ Adam Silver
Kristi noem next
Get AirBud on the opposing team
They say she has ICE in her veins, and can cook you up like a Barbie.
I need to see Shams get his shit sent back so badly
need woj to come out of retirement and splash a 3 over him
bomb sirens go off “That’s Woj’s music! They said he retired!”
Bah Gawd!
And a block to the 5th row.
Need him coming out to Stone Cold’s glass shatter
Woj for 3, BANG, BANGGGG
a woj bomb, then he tweets it out
You will get Kevin Hart traveling and like it
The fuck did he do to you
Sub has a weird boner for shitting on him like he personally fucked their wives
fr I can’t think of anyone else this sub has so much vitriol for aside from maybe nico harrison
Nah you forgot Adam silver, everyone comments he’s weird
Bob Fitzgerald. Half warranted half overblown
He did.
It’s mostly toxic fans from r/mkebucks
I don’t know that it’s that weird. /r/soccer has the same hate boner for Fabrizio Romano and /r/nfl has the same hate boner for Adam Schefter.
Fans just don’t care for “journalists” who carry water for whoever gives them access and ruin things like the draft for personal gain.
It would be so funny if someone posterizes him on national TV
I need the crowd to start chanting about Giannis just getting traded whilst shams is playing just to scare him
Yeah, I’m only watching to see Shams get cooked
i fear for anyone who sleeps as little as charania doing exercise
i hope draft kings got a good insurance policy to protect this mans heart
He’s not staying on his phone 17 hours like that screenshot, he probably sleeps like a normal human that’s rare and only during trade deadline, free agency or when something big happens
Yeah I’m tired of acting like these news breakers are working in a war zone. They are paid millions to copy+paste texts from agents and FO people onto Twitter.
Give me a break lol
Lol definitely at least during FA and trade deadline he’s grinding bazooka.
This is soccer but there’s also a journalist named Fabrizio Romano. He’s essentially same as Shams in having all the inside information. He said he sleeps 2-3 hours a day for long stretches during the soccer players transfer window, which lasts like 2+ months.
Heart disease here we go!
Would that also be even tougher with the different timezones - assuming he does all leagues across europe?
I’m just going to assume it’s just the big league transfers that he does
I mean both things can be true that it’s not a very important job in the grand scheme of things, but also to be successful to the degree Shams is requires putting your job over your health. I sure as hell don’t see it as a badge of honor or something to be proud of, but I’m sure he really does work some insane hours especially around the deadline or free agency.
Bro probably takes a dozen power naps a day like a parent with a newborn too during those crazy times
to protect this mans heart
That’s not how insurance works.
Uh oh, this is a thing? I guess sleep is more important than exercise?
he literally looks like he has an above average physique
This guy don’t sit right with me
He’s been like this since college. He is completely obsessed with being the Shams we see today.
I don’t think he has any hobbies outside of being an insider. Woj couldn’t take it anymore so he quit. Shams lives and breathes this shit.
some people are just workaholics, but if they enjoy it all the more power to him
exactly. my lazy ass is grateful for these sickos. more so the ones making scientific discoveries and great art. but Shams ain’t hurting anyone
He isn’t doing shit except tweeting what agents/teams want
He’s only 31…. It’s pretty wild
People are all pissed off at this guy. Hey, he found a niche, he’s doing what he’s paid to do, and I’m sure he’s paid better than most of us. All of these haters just wish they heard things before him or had his job.
Most of us would kill for a job we actually liked as much as these guys apparently do lol
So you’ve been following a complete stranger’s life since they were in college like maybe a decade ago, and you say HE is the one with no hobbies?
ESPN did like a 10 minute episode on him a few years ago as a homage to him becoming the new Woj
Woj said it was attending a friend’s funeral, and seeing how few people actually showed up, that made him realize his work had no lasting impact
I met him at ASW a few years ago when he was still with Yahoo. Honestly, he came across as a very humble, down-to-earth, but driven guy.
Nice enough to chat and take a pic with me and a friend. I don’t have anything bad to say about him, not sure what “vibes” people are getting from a TV clip.
Definitely gives off psychopath vibes, like he doesn’t know how to act “normal” and is trying to fake it
nightcrawler-esque.
shoutout Jake Gyllenhaal.
He is literally if someone dropped one of those consultant, investment bank types directly into the nba media system
Same syndrome as Vivek Ramaswamy
r/randomwhiteguybeingracistfornoreason
And fuck Vivek btw
Hey dumbass look at my reply above
Also:
r/randomwhiteguytalkingtoughonlinebecausehegotcalledoutforbeingracist
How? Vivek is a conservative yapper, while Shams breaks sports headlines wheres the correlation lol
Bro is only saying that because they’re both brown
Or because they both subscribe to the same performative hyper assimilation that becomes basically identity bleach which also destroys any image of a personality. Everything is done through the lens of getting ahead for the sake of it. They’re not an interesting person at all besides their chosen path.
But yeah I’m being brown skin racist because I’m identifying a subpopulation of a high achieving minority that will betray their own to get ahead, read Vivek, Kashyap Patel, Bobby Jindal, Nikki Haley, etc.
👆 Look kids, an idiot!
He sucks on TV.
Huge drop off after you put a personality to the name.
Woj was terrible on TV too
Not our king Windy 👆🤨☝️
Windy is disgusting to look at tho. Some people look like they’re supposed to be fat while Windy looks like someone who was suppose to be skinny and put on a bunch of unexpected weight
If Sydney Sweeney will jump his bones, so would I
He was good in short segments and when talking about niche stuff, better on the pod format though
True, but Shams is next level.
The man is known for his information, not his personality.
This is actually cool though, like he’s doing his best to entertain us for a change
He was doing TV before he became ESPNs guy, this isn’t new
Big difference from doing delayed shoots and breaking news pieces. This is ESPN exposure.
ESPN paying these guys a bajillion dollars so they can put “sources tell ESPN” in their tweets, then being forced to put guys with zero charisma on TV to justify the investment has always been silly to me lol
Had no idea reddit weirdos had beef with Shams.
This subreddit hates everything about the nba.
Lmfao fr is there a reason I am unaware of?
This guy is out here doing his job, for which clearly there is a space and demand for, and getting hated for it lmao.
I’m not saying you have to love him but I won’t get people who hate him.
The same people hating on Shams job are the same people racing to the breaking news thread to get their silly jokes off for karma (I do it too, but I got no beef with Shams)
I don’t hate him at all. The reality is that if Shams wasn’t doing it, someone else would and we’d be in the exactly same boat as fans.
I just don’t care for the media ecosystem that facilitates and glorifies it. He’s just an access merchant, and his “reporting” on anything that isn’t trade news is obviously compromised.
That’s fair, I can understand this view. However, I don’t see his role (or that archetype) diminishing in any capacity, for better or for worse. I think it’s a necessary “evil” at this point
Reddit weirdos has beef with everyone
They hate everyone here lol
I don’t get it either
He’s just doing his job and he’s good at it
bucks fans’ hatred of him has spread the the rest of the sub
This thread is my first time learning that Shams has haters
Seriously. Idk why people hate him other than “vibes”. I barely know anything about him other than he releases NBA news
Nobody relies on “vibes” more than chronically online basement dwellers who hyperventilate at the thought of socializing in real life
Bucks fans hate him for the Giannis trade rumors
Pablo Torre called him out, saying you shouldn’t consider yourself a journalist when all you do is broadcast what PR teams want out there
Sources monitoring the situation are saying it’s increasingly likely this game will suck.
No way people actually hate on Shams what the fuck did bro even do? 😂
Shams after carrying his team
Floater like retired Danny Green, maybe.
https://streamable.com/jokgjo
lol tbf it looked like wearing a blazer/shirt and that mic set up really hampered him
I can’t fucking stand this guy
How come? I don’t know much about him outside of his news breaking, what makes him unlikeable?
Yea I’m so confused too, this seemed like a normal human interaction to me until I read all these comments haha.
Yeah I’m confused why my fellow neckbeards are hating lol
Maybe you and I are such neckbeards we don’t notice the social faux pas happening right in front of us.
Fuckkkk the sham
we were robbed of a Charania vs Woj Celebrity Game.
The camera will 100% cut to him on the bench looking at at least 1 phone.
I’m ngl I want him to ball out
Can’t be worse or more lame than “Ronnie 2K” can he?
Shams hate is strange
I played pickup with shams for years and I can vouch for everything he said. Very good shooter and ball handler. Bit of a black hole but overall very solid to good!
Fuck toss my random ass in the too fuck it
Shams get break that he got signed to a 10-day after this
He gonna put up that Tony Snell statline
We really about to get a real shams bomb
Hope a huge news story breaks while he’s on the court and he still tweets it and we realize Shams isn’t a person but an entire network
Team Shams vs Team Woj would feed generations
What happens if there is major breaking news during the game? I know it’s unlikely since it’s after the deadline but that would be wild if he missed a major story because he was bricking a 14-footer.
Bucks have a couple of minutes to do the funniest shit imaginable while he’s on the court
How bout just focusing on your “journalism” before Pablo comes after you
Will Shedeur Sanders participate in the 3-point challenge? I heard he hit a couple threes in his driveway once.
Can we also get SVP, I would love to see him have like 15 blocks by virtue of being a foot taller than most of the other participants
What if news breaks out during the game Shams?
Half the thread doesn’t appear to understand the trade dead line is before all star break. They moved it after Boogie got traded in the middle of AS Weekend.
After he makes a shot he should point at someone in the crowd and tell them they just got traded
Make the celeb ASG a hunger games and I’ll tune in
Woj coming out just to play on the opposing team; also watch the most insane trade to happen while he’s playing in the game.
you know i had to do it one time lol
If Sham don’t play w/a wireless mic in his ear and his phone nearby the court…
The only news i want to read is when Shams reporting that Giannis will be finally traded to a contender team… Giannis passion for basketball cant be match by MIL anymore, thus he deserves to be on another team already
Cool, somebody with some actual relevancy instead of a bunch of random YouTubers
Unless it’ll be Shams and a bunch of random YouTubers lol
Sports “journalism”
wtf the F happened to her face. It’s been a min since I watched ESPN, but dang
This brits would call this guy a cunt
Not like the all star game could be any less watchable. Might as well.
Most talentless hack in sports media
Need that flagrant foul
What’s the worst that could happen? Shams tears his ACL and he has to self-report it to the media?
Guess that proves they you don’t really need to be a celebrity
oh boy, I can’t wait to not watch this!
So in 10 years we’re gonna get a story that Shams is supplying Russia with wifi boosters to use for their drones?
Bro is gonna get a text mid-game about a blockbuster trade and allow a Kevin Hart celeb dunk on him
Imma need surprise entry woj on the other team to lock him up
Thumbs down
Shams aint a celebrity, bro just somehow finessed Woj’s job after retiring
Nobody wants this. Kudos to the NBA, you somehow made a skippable event even worse by incorporating the charisma vacuum that is Shams Charania
“Celebrity” is going a lot of heavy lifting here.
Aw man, we don’t wanna see that
Dude is buns.
There isn’t a Shams sub that this could’ve been posted in or something? Who cares?
Who cares?! This is news? Get off my lawn!
No offense, but just like that, the term “celebrity” loses even more meaning.
How isn’t he a celebrity especially for an NBA product? They’ve had straight no names in these games. The most famous reporter for the league isn’t a new low. Give me a break.
Yeah bro the biggest NBA journalist and a guy with millions and millions of followers is not a celebrity
He seems to fit the definition of a celebrity pretty well without changing the meaning whatsoever.
He has 3.4 Million followers on twitter and everybody watching the All-Star game will recognize him. Ofc he’s a celebrity
Shams is so lame
I’m already tired of this guy. Yes I’m hating.
Fuck shams
this dude is so annoying
This dude is so weird.
No one cares
Why does a useless twitter account get so much exposure? lol
Ur bum team is waiting for him to announce the Giannis trade to save ur season
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He’s Indian
ESPN needs to stick to reporting sports news. We don’t like ya fr
Brown boys and overestimating their skill at ball name a more iconic duo
Ngl, I didn’t know who shams was before being hired by espn.
And, I still don’t. 🤷
Edit: Don’t pretend like you understand his appeal, or why is always around.