Five months after being laid off as part of ESPN’s infamous April purge, Marc Stein is close to joining the New York Times, a source close to Stein told Awful Announcing. Stein is one of the preeminent NBA news-breakers in the country, as well as an experienced television personality. Before working at ESPN, he covered the Mavericks for The Dallas Morning News, among other newspaper jobs. At the Times, he will presumably serve as a national NBA reporter, alongside Scott Cacciola and others. Not long after ESPN laid off Stein, the network announced the hiring of Adrian Wojnarowski, a move many sports media pundits interpreted as being connected given their overlap as NBA news-breakers. Read more http://awfulannouncing.com/nba/marc-stein-close-to-finalizing-deal-with-the-new-york-times.html
