ESPN has parted methods with NBA senior author Zach Lowe as a part of the community’s persevering with layoffs, sources briefed on the choice instructed Andrew Marchand of The Athletic on Thursday.
Lowe follows the sooner dismissals of NFL analysts, Robert Griffin III and Sam Ponder. The strikes are a part of the community’s “fiscal yr planning” that ends on the finish of September, per Marchand.
NEWS: ESPN has laid off NBA Sr. author Zach Lowe, The Athletic has discovered.
Particulars … https://t.co/mwz7sxAGhO
— Andrew Marchand (@AndrewMarchand) September 26, 2024
ESPN and Lowe each declined to remark. Per a number of studies, Lowe’s wage was in extra of seven figures yearly. His earnings had been the most important think about ESPN’s determination, in line with sources briefed on the phrases of his contract.
In 2016, Lowe was pursued by Bleacher Report however in the end re-signed with ESPN on a multi-year contract. He additionally wrote a weekly NBA article throughout the season headlined as “Ten issues I like and don’t like, together with…”.
Zach Lowe had labored for ESPN for 12 years
Lowe had been with ESPN for 12 years, first beginning on the longform website, Grantland. Along with writing and showing on TV, he additionally hosted the “Lowe Submit” podcast sequence.
Based on his résumé, Lowe started protecting the NBA full-time in 2010 at Sports activities Illustrated. He was considered one of simply two writers to maneuver to ESPN after Grantland’s shutdown in 2015.
Lowe graduated from the Ivy League’s Dartmouth in 1999. He started his profession as a journalist in 2004, protecting crime and courts for the StamfordAdvocate newspaper in Stamford, Connecticut. He additionally coated the authorized business for month-to-month authorized journal, The American Lawyer, earlier than transitioning into sports activities.
ESPN’s NBA protection is continuous to make enterprise adjustments after the sudden retirement of insider Adrian Wojnarowski. The Bristol, Connecticut, native introduced his retirement from the corporate final week and agreed to turn into the overall supervisor of the males’s basketball program at St. Bonaventure College.
Invoice Simmons is rumored to rent Lowe at The Ringer. Simmons and Lowe have a long-standing relationship that dates again to their days at Grantland. They usually seem on one another’s podcasts.
