So usually sports reporters break big news on Twitter, and it goes viral, but today the guy dropping big news on Twitter and blowing everything up in one tweet is Portland Trailblazers star Damian Lillard.
Sources:Free Agent reporter @ChrisBHaynes reaches agreement w/yahoo sports as Senior NBA insider, Will help build their NBA team.More coming
— Damian Lillard (@Dame_Lillard) September 5, 2018
This Fresno Bee profile confirmed this news is 100% true and that it was broken by Lillard:
The Fresno native’s rise from unpaid freelancer, one who relied on food stamps to feed his wife and family, to highly paid and sought-after NBA reporter — all in less than a decade — took another step Wednesday when news broke that Haynes will be departing ESPN after his two-year contract expires in October to join Yahoo Sports.
In a clever reversal of the norm, Haynes’ move to Yahoo was announced on Twitter by Damian Lillard, the Trail Blazers guard and three-time NBA All-Star.
Of course the tweets were flying in, and some of them were pretty funny. Check them out below:
https://twitter.com/GeloRussell/status/1037345094251118593
An NBA star breaking news on a big reporter just blew my mind 🤯
— Thomas Duffy (@TJDhoops) September 5, 2018
— NBA The Jump Fanpage (@NBATheJumpFP) September 5, 2018
CONGRATS @ChrisBHaynes!!!! Do work!!!! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽 (@Dame_Lillard don’t come for our jobs!! 😂)
— Rosalyn Gold-Onwude (@ROSGO21) September 5, 2018
Well played! Congrats to Chris on the great journey so far and ahead:https://t.co/8IG03fsNaw
— Nick DePaula (@NickDePaula) September 5, 2018
Dame Bomb
— Jonesy (@JonesyNBA) September 5, 2018
I thought @CJMcCollum was the journalist?! Congrats, Chris. Well earned.
— Adi Joseph (@AdiJoseph) September 5, 2018
