[Lowlight] Charania gets in his feels and lashes out at Bucks during Pat McAfee Interview
both sides suck, but Shams just seems like a baby in this interaction. you’re a ‘reporter’, you can’t be responding like this
he sees himself as a celebrity
Fucking hate when he “phones in” to my 2k matches. Why tf was he added in???
I haven’t played in a couple years. That has to only be in my career right? Annoying either way but if they added this to play now games I would never play again ever
I play on my PS5 plugged into my PC monitor. I never plug the headphones in for NBA2k anymore because all of their narration, the awkward player congratulating your MP and Shams talking is too annoying.
I don’t even watch actual NBA games with sound anymore.
You watch games without sound to enjoy basketball, I listen to Warriors or OKC announcers w/out video to enjoy the pain, we are not the same.
When I first saw him in a draft cut scene I was like “oh that’s a fun cheeky cameo” then he kept recurring and I vividly remember the moment I was like “oh no this is a whole thing isn’t it???”
Nope, the Eras as well which is franchise mode. Overall 2k does announcers better than Madden imo, but the call in stuff is weird.
yeah he is a glorified pr agent.
Public relations people have to figure out how to spin stuff which is a lot more than what Shams does. He is just the mouthpiece that reports stuff after it’s already been spun. It’s a meaningless job and sad he thinks he’s relevant
Ehh that kind of exactly what PR is. Companies will use trusted reporters to break news for them and those reporters get to be the 1st the report basically.
PR can also be internal statements and actions, but when you use someone else to break news for you it’s also PR work.
Public relations is determining how to word things and when/who to release them to. Shams is told what to say often by directling copy paste pre-typed statements. So no
ESPN turning reporters into personalities is so annoying
Everything they do is annoying, thank God for NBC and (gag me) Amazon.
“But think about the ratings! People love it when reporters show passion even if it comes at the expense of unbiased reporting” shudders
Yooo any other shams fans out here !!! Let’s sham it up, I want some scoops
Shams isn’t a reporter. He is a tool for agents, GMs, and players to leak things to the media with the spin they want.
Yeah and to me that’s exactly why him beefing with a team isn’t good for the league.
So he’s an insider instead of a reporter
I am so confused how Shams rose to prominence so quickly.
Like, I get he’s a grinder, but he broke into the industry when it was still about journalism and writing, and his writing is fucking AWFUL (his articles read like a sports-obsessed high schooler).
Like, it just seemed like he kind of popped up out of nowhere alongside Woj. I get Woj got him going, but I just don’t get why Shams was the one who got that spot
but he broke into the industry when it was still about journalism and writing,
Disagreed. He broke out when journalism was transitioning into becoming a Twitter race. And that’s what he does.
Was going to say, not sure about the rose tinted goggles because the 2010s was atrocious and twitter was at its absolute peak in terms of traffic and “reporters” trying to get the fastest trade in the NBA or soccer transfer
Fabrizio in soccer is another one of those insufferable products of the 2010s “first” reporting culture
I was just going to make the comparison to Fabrizio. He’s also an insufferable loser who thinks he’s a celebrity…fuck Twitter for making them think they’re anything special lmao.
Exactly. Shams is arguably the first “twitter” journalist to become a top reporter for their sport really. Guys like Woj, Shefter, and the like cut their teeth in print media before socials or TV.
Professional Twitter addict
getoffmydickershams
He had the agent connections and the lack of ethics necessary.
But HOW did he get the agent connections?
Like, dude was like 20 years old when he broke in. What fucking agent is trusting a 20-year old with key scoops?
Was he a nepo baby? What other reason was there for agents to be feeding him info? He doesn’t seem charismatic, he’s a mediocre communicator, he’s a dogshit writer. I just cannot wrap my brain around it
He was even younger than 20. He got his start from lying to people to get in the scene and the gullible people divulged senstivie info to a kid in high school. Hes admitted this even multiple times
Literal fake it till you make it
He wrote a lot for local blogs, used that to get in with RealGM, and used THAT to get a media credential. He wrote a lot of ‘this backup guard is better than you think’ type stuff that hyped players. And he paid attention to the tiny tiny stuff. He wrote a profile of a third-string guard, then reported when no one else did that that guard had gotten a 10-day the next season. That stuff turned into bigger stuff, which turned into the Luol Deng trade, which is what made him important.
woj took him under his wing for a couple years like a decade ago, im assuming that’s where he started building all of these connections. after he retired shams was basically the only successor
He was Woj’s protege and got a lot of his contacts through him. It’s speculated that’s the reason Woj seemed to back a grudge against Shams.
Kinda sounds like just hard work, lots of networking, and getting lucky.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/shlomosprung/2019/12/24/the-rise-evolution-of-shams-charania/ this is very much a puff/hype piece so I would take some of it with a grain of salt, but talks a little bit about his rise, could be interesting
One of the first to just completely ignore journalistic integrity. Woj started to stray from journalistic norms. Shams never even bothered to learn the ethical expectations. Pretty much a reflection on the direction of society.
It feels like to be one of these insiders all you need really are connections and a psycho mentality.
Why do we suck in this?
Terrible comparison.
Doc doesn’t care. Clearly this dude does.
it’s like he practiced that fire festival line in the mirror… just nonsensical wtf
Oh he FOR SURE thought he was eating with that line. He had such a dweeb smirk
Shams is a lolcow tbh lmao
I miss Woj
Yeah and while I didn’t love Woj either, at least he didn’t seem this pretentious about his image either; I mean, they’re all pretentious to some degree but Shams with the leather jacket, member’s only vibes while also being such a whiny baby comes off as such a plastic personality he might as well be AI generated lmao
Woj would kinda disappear into the ether when not dropping League shattering news, it was awesome. They didn’t call them “Woj bombs” for nothing.
Doc isnt always the most reliable narrator but if Shams really called the Bucks office to complain after Doc said “we should trade Shams” then that is ridiculous.
bro thought it was a fire line
This is like the shower arguments redditors always imagine themselves winning lmao
Shams is just a redditor that gets paid to post shit on the internet
Really finger-on-the-pulse reference, too
He just wanted to say “Doc”-ument
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Yeah he’s real good at saying what others tell him to say, and then tweeting about it.
And then pretending it’s a skill.
It’s more dedication than skill. Can’t really have much of a social life when you work like that
It’s a skill to give up everything else in life and just live for the grind. I’m okay with not having this skill.
I could do that for a few years if they’ll pay me 10s of millions.
Well the hard part is doing that for a few years without the 10s of millions first.
The skill here is the ability to build up relationships and the networking needed for him to always be the first one to get the scoop but sure lets pretend any moron with thumbs and a phone can do the same
“any moron with thumbs and a phone” - truly lmao - there are countless reporters covering the NBA rn who would love to have Shams’ job but who cannot build the same network. it is fascinating to see haters hate in the wild tho I guess.
The oldest profession.
Sucking dick is a skill
You leave Dianna Russini out of this
Sucking dick is more of a skill than copy/pasting the agent’s handpicked byline to Twitter, which is all Shams is capable of doing
You’re right
In fact I’m gonna go suck some dick and prove it to you right now
Send da video
I understand you’re trying to make a joke, but I still feel like being able to make a career out of something that millions of other people would be willing to do for free (i.e. sucking dick) is still impressive.
Shams might well be our Abella Danger of NBA insiders.
Idk if it’s a skill but the job is anything but easy. Being in constant conversation with half the leagues FOs. Leveraging information while trying to still make people like you enough to give you future intel. Being glued to your phone 24⁄7 365.
It’s like networking on steroids which would be my personal hell.
its hard work copying and pasting the deals the agents sign.
“I repeat what GMs say as long as FanDuel approves”
Woj gotta do an mj and suit up. Or anyone else step up ffs.
If bro stopped working this instant, nothing of value would’ve been lost.
Regardless of whether he speaks some truth, it’s a terrible look for NBA/ESPN to have their leading reporter actively antagonizing one of the teams he’s supposed to objectively report on.
Stupid from him too. Access journalism is all about connections so burning bridges is the last thing you want to do
Think about his connections in the bucks, theyre probably some random midlevel guys that hate the team just as much as he does. Its all just egos and rumor mill stuff that we have to pretend is a real job.
Not a shams fan, but his entire career hustle started with the Bucks and getting to know that organization at an intricate level before he ever reported on the full scope of the NBA. He was living in Chicago and driving up to Milwaukee several nights a week to cover games and make connections.
So it must really fucking bug him that he hasn’t gotten a damn thing right regarding the Bucks in years. He didn’t know about Turner, he didn’t know about Dame, or Jrue. Yet again Giannis didn’t get traded.
Exactly. Makes some sense why he is making it personal.
Yeah but his whole job is to not take things personal and be an objective observer and report on it.
Shams is getting too big for his britches.
That’s never been his job. He’s an access “journalist”. His job is to be a mouthpiece for whichever person wants to spread some bullshit.
His job is to shovel bullshit and tell you its caviar.
The Bucks screwed him twice on the Giannis trade rumors
This has been happening for years. All the NBA folks on ESPN are lackies for teams and agents. They don’t report, they push narrative. Expecting Shams to not speak like this is the mistake. Objective reporting from the network that gifted Balmer air time to cry about being scammed when he was trying to cheat the game… really? Ship sailed a long time ago. As others’ point out, Woj did the same.
Adam Shefter is the worst of them all. These guys aren’t smart, they just have connections. Uncle Chaps on twitter used to literally fool them all the time on fake trades and they would make headlines on ESPN.
My guess is he’s probably doing Giannis’ camp a favor and carrying water for them hard to put more pressure on the Bucks.
Giannis fucking hates dude. I doubt he’s carrying water for him.
Yeah his distaste for Shams is about the only thing Giannis has been consistent on through this whole saga.
We need Woj back
To be fair, this is actually classic Woj.
Dude was petty as HELL when people weren’t giving him intel. Dude wrote hit pieces on LeBron back when Woj was at yahoo because LeBron’s camp was more about controlling their own reporting. He chilled out as he rose in status and became THE guy, but he was not beneath lashing out.
This reads as funnier though because Woj wielded his reporting as a cudgel while Charania just seems legit mad which is delightfully petty for a reporter of his status.
He’s not a reporter. He’s a PR mouthpiece that gets a paycheck from ESPN because he does the bidding of owners, agents and players.
And Woj was what?
And is Charania doing the bidding of owners by castigating the Bucks?
Woj was the same thing.
Yeah I’m not sure about people forgot how absolutely insufferable Woj could be
Most are probably younger so they only really remember end of career Woj, who was less of a dick.
Plus he’s probably most famous on Reddit for telling Josh Hawley to go fuck himself (which was fucking great), and people overlooked some of the shittier stuff Woj himself had done because at least he has morals.
There was also that time he emailed a senator
Woj was way worse and he was in his late 40s lmao
Woj originally came to be known by writing hit pieces on Kobe Bryant for Yahoo Sports, of all places. He’s definitely controversial, but wasn’t a snake like Shams
If you think he’s not a snake, look up what he’s been up to at St Bonaventure
He came to a college basketball program, spent money out of his own pocket to kick out the winningest head coach in the program’s history, framed it as a retirement, and now has hidden from any possible media event
Not even just the winningest coach, but the guy who saved the program from being thrown out of the A10 after the scandal they had
well you convinced me, fuck all these mffers, we need the clankers to take over
Woj and Dumars straight up got caught in a leak investigation lmao
How The NBA Flushed Out The Exec Leaking Memos To Adrian Wojnarowski
In 2010, the NBA fined Dumars \(500,000 for leaking multiple confidential league memos to Wojnarowski, according to multiple sources. This matches the third largest publicly known fine the league has ever handed down. The NBA decided that too many memos were making it into the media, so they conducted a sting operation over several months. They would change a few words or numbers in different team's copies of otherwise identical memos, so that when the memos leaked they could spot the small differences and trace them back to the leaker. This approach caught Dumars red-handed, as well as an executive from another team who was fined \)12,500 for leaking to a draft-focused website. Joe Dumars, the Detroit Pistons, and the NBA all declined to comment on the fine.
Hard not to be suspicious when Woj wouldn’t shit on Dumars despite the Pistons freefalling
Agreed. The top reporters shouldn’t have stylists. They should be middle aged and ugly
Woj made it look sexy though
finna make me woj bomb
Should be a illegal for a reporter to have a partnership with a gambling company.
You think Woj was any better? He published articles that front offices wrote for him and then he slapped his name on them and pretended it was real journalism.
These guys are washed we need a generational reporter to break through
IMO the role filled by Shams and Woj is a role that doesn’t need to exist at all. Nobody needs a gossip-monger.
Got to be one of the most unlikeable media personalities in the nba. Just stick to tweeting bc nobody wants to hear your voice
Paired up with one of the most unlikable media personalities in football too lol.
Add pro wrestling to that
He thinks he’s a warm and convivial host like Artie Bucco.
Artie Bucco’s wife was outta his league
Shams has a negative value in his charisma stat, I’m constantly shocked by how dreadful he is on TV
He spends 18 hours a day on twitter, it’s like if you grabbed an average r/nba poster and put him on TV
Woj had that dorky vibe. Shams is uncharismatic but tries too hard.
Woj was horrible on tv too
When being a glorified carrier pigeon gets to your head
Whenever I think of Shams now I think about how sad he was in that celebrity all star game and Giannis munching on popcorn and saying “he cannot hoop, the rest of the team can hoop, but he cannot hoop”.
Just what we needed, MORE Pat McAfee.
Sports coverage is in such a bad era right now
Especially because his entire crew has zero fucking clue on the sport. Shit is insufferable to listen to
McAfee, Cowherd, SAS
Fuckin yikes
Add Perkins and we can make a real shit sandwich
ESPN is basically Fox News but sports at this point
Though shoutout PTI and the legitimate journalists still associated with the network
But ESPN is garbage compared to like even a decade ago
No question. Around the Horn, Outside the Lines, Highly Questionable, Cold Pizza, The Sports Reporters (I know it’s back on YouTube but humor me here), heck even The Jump/NFL Insiders run circles around most of their current programming.
Let’s add Bert Kreisher and Jason Kelce to get the ultimate shit salad going
He really thought that Fyre Fest analogy was going to be a mic dropper.
Not gonna lie, it took me a while to remember what Frye Fest was about.
Shams was the target demo of Fyre fest marketing
I was going to make a Channing Frye joke here but his career isn’t really memorable either
Shams is a pretty sorry replacement for Woj
lol people really like to hype up Woj just because of nostalgia
Id say Woj was arguably worse as a reporter tbh he wrote propaganda puff pieces to get his source lol
Absolutely, at least Shams is positive about the players.
https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/9tngxi/woj_really_doesnt_like_lebron/
Read up on this, it’s entirely derisive. I won’t lie, it goes so far that it’s disgusting. I’ve read up on LeBron, he’s not the messiah, but he’s always held himself quite well from what I’ve seen. Even back when he was a 16 year old superstar. I won’t go as far as to say what sentiments I think Woj was appealing to here, but Dwade and JJ talked about something similar once before in a podcast when it came to the heatles. People were a little more titchy, for some reason extra reason.
i think shams irks people bc he’s exclusively a scoops guy and woj started off as a legit journalist
This sub loves to act like woj was some messiah for sports news. All these insiders are mouthpieces for either teams or players
Woj did shit like this far more often than Shams. Both are sleazy though.
You guys don’t actually remember woj lol. Woj was exactly this except the whole time
Shams is a midwit. It’s pretty funny trying to watch him sound smart off the cuff.
he looks like an AI ad on youtube
Shams is a joke lmao.
Just stop reporting on the Bucks, sheesh.
dude hides behind being a reporter, but is chasing celebrity clout
I mean if I’d been wrong about something happening for the better part of a decade id be bitter too. The only thing more pathetic are the dipshits who still think he has any credibility on the subject left.
It’s hilarious to me that there’s people out there that are gonna say “See?! Shams knew what he was talking about all along!” when Giannis eventually leaves despite him being dead wrong about it like 8 offseasons in a row
100%. We’ve already seen it on this sub.
Ah yes the ol’ “keep shooting and eventually you’ll make it” trick
got flamed so hard before the trade deadline for saying this is the 5th year shams has not shut up about this and yet nothing ever happens
“Dude with the most useless job in all of sports is emotional”
Shams on McAfee—name a worse combo
[Sharania] The bucks are b*tches
Shams - Crash dummy
Hilarious that this guy is one of ESPN’s leading figures and he is barely literate as well as a poor public speaker.
I always say he’s too robotic, like he’s not comfortable. He reminds me of one of those guys that think they are “too cool” when they are quite dorky lmao.
His articles are fucking terrible. Like he is a truly terrible writer who only got to his position through hustling.
he may be in his feelings but he’s right
How??? He’s been wrong for like 4 years at this point about “Giannis leaving the Bucks”
I get that this sub doesn’t like Giannis and the way he’s conducting himself at the moment, but it’s undeniable that he’s continued to remain on the Bucks roster for years despite Chams-led speculation about him leaving
At this point, it/when Giannis leaves, Chams can’t take any credit for it because she’s been incorrectly stating it was going to happen for years now
Yeah everyone is crapping on him here but he was clearly right. There’s absolutely beef between Giannis and Bucks, there’s been trade discussions, and the people who keep saying it’s all made up and Giannis is a Buck for life will be wrong.
W shams you mfs weird
Sounds like Doc hit the nail on the head lol
Keep in mind that Shams’ job is to tweet faster than others. He is taking news and making it “breaking” by delivering it before others have a chance to
He basically has one of the dumbest jobs I’ve ever seen in sports.
I don’t know why he’s talking about anything. I’m not even saying he’s wrong. The bucks 100% have been weird for their shenanigans this season. They were weird for no reason at all
But I’m not trying to hear anything from Shams. He talking like he doing something. I honestly don’t know why his job even exists
Doc Rivers was spot on when he called Shams tight and young. Dude is as insecure as it gets.
“I been watching some documentaries” is always a precursor to some dumb shit being said. I do this too so I would know
Why is everyone in here so fake mad at this lmao
seriously. Lol. I’m trying to understand why there’s so much hate. I mean, I get the sentiment, but the amount of outspoken of disdain for Shams over Doc in this situation makes no sense to me.
Racism. It’s bc they can’t stand a brown person making a harmless comment. If it was Woj saying this, they’d say he owned the bucks.
it’s a bunch of redditors in their feelings cause they don’t like shams
I’m over here thinking shams did something bad, I have no doubt the bucks have been trying to trade Giannis for years, but it takes two to make a trade and I find it more believable that the bucks have simply not found a good trade offer for him then to believe a reporter has just been making things up for the last 4 years. If I was a bucks fan I would get not liking him but this guy has done nothing but his job lmao
He’s right tho
Sensitive Shams
Shams has zero reason to lie about this. The Bucks are just protecting their superstar as they should.
dude its been six years of him saying “im hearing reports that giannis will not be on the bucks by the end of the off season”
how many years of him saying the same BS that never happens before you idiots realize he makes things up for traction
Big time shades of max kellerman and his take on “the cliff for Tom Brady” being wrong multiple years in a row lol
“The highest of levels he possibly can” Did he just give himself a participation trophy? He’s been wrong about this every year since COVID.
Literally nothing he said was wrong
So he blows smoke and he gets mad that he ends up looking like an idiot?
This sub is so mad that Shams was right lmao
he think he’s actually important
Fucking crybaby
People saying they miss Woj, hated him too towards the end and were cheering anytime anyone beat him to an exclusive.
I don’t mind the back and forth, especially if it was entertaining but Shams is dull.
I don’t care for shams one way or the other. But I do want to see more reporters and organizations beefing.
Shama thinks he is more special than he really is
I aint hear no lies. After failing to find a deal, the Bucks and Giannis tried to pretend that it was all just a ruse by Shams and everything was on the up and up. Meanwhile the Bucks and Giannis relationship just continued to deteriorate over the last few months of the season.
This clown is the reason this entire sub has turned Giannis into their villain of the year. Embarrassing.
Shams does not belong on television. At least not in a speaking role.
Ok he mad lmao. Sucks to suck.
What is he even talking about? The bucks have spent basically zero time responding to reports. The fans respond, and the media keeps talking. The bucks organization hasn’t ever broached this subject and has only ever discussed it when a reporter is in their face asking them?
Shams is such a tool
iM jUsT hErE tO dOcUmEnT iT
Sure Shams.
This dudes job is to break news we’d all find out anyways, just a little later, and he is acting like he is god’s gift to journalism.
Shams is PR. He’s entertainment. He’s not a journalist. That’s okay.
He sucks at being entertainment and PR, too.
I’m not a biased reporter, they’re just jerks!
This dude is so pathetic
Shams is so corny I don’t know how I didn’t see it before
Did not realize so many people disliked Shams 😅
He’s not wrong though, Bucks are a complete shitshow with how they’ve been handling this