Former ESPN NBA insider Adrian Wojnarowski was diagnosed with prostate cancer in March, six months before his shocking retirement from the network.
The news was revealed by Sports Illustrated Profile The 55-year-old man's prognosis was said to be good, published Thursday morning.
Wojnarowski left ESPN to become general manager of the men's basketball program at his alma mater, St. Bonaventure.
In Wojnarowski's statement announcing his departure from ESPN, he told SI that “time is not an infinite supply,” a reference to his cancer.
He underwent a biopsy after two blood tests revealed elevated prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels, and was diagnosed minutes before appearing remotely on “NBA Countdown.”
“When you think of cancer, you think of it moving through your body like Pac-Man,” Wojnarowski told SI. “Prostate cancer usually remains within the prostate gland and is generally slow-growing.”
