How A Team Can Use Woj To Benefit Them

Adrian Wojnarowski has quickly became the most influential reporter in the NBA. Through his tweets he has broken huge stories from the Mavericks Knicks trade to just smaller stories from a guy getting bought out. Woj covers it all, but an NBA team could potentially use him to their advantage.

Many NBA reporters now call Woj the 31st franchise because of his influence, whatever he says is automatically true. If a team is trying to make a trade happen, they should simply pretend to leak info to Woj. In order to keep the record "true" a team should word how they put it to Woj. A team could simply just say that they are considering offering a certain player or pick for someone leak the report out to Woj and hopefully another team would get scared. An example would be if a team would be interested in trading for Kemba Walker and the trade market is strong for him. Lets say the Heat call up Woj and say they are going to offer Whiteside and 2 unprotected future picks, it could potentially scare away other opposing teams who might want to offer for him. Other teams could feel as if they can't compete for Walker and it could dwindle the market making it easier to trade for him. Then the Heat could go in there and offer a smaller package for Walker and walk away bigger winners than they would've before. An NBA team could use Woj to help dwindle the trade market or scare a team into making a huge offer and reducing the assets on their team.

Woj could also be used to help sign a potential free agent player in the offseason. Lets just say there are 5 teams about to offer a contract to Rondo this offseason and one of the teams could really use his services. They make a call to Woj and say they are considering offering him a 3-year deal with a player option and say they might overpay him. This could cause one or two of the teams to go we can't compete with this and back off. This could also do the reverse effect and have a team drastically overpay for a player, causing them to have less cap space for other free agents. Teams could use this to their advantage and cause a team like the Warriors to overpay and help dwindle the talent around them. Teams could use Woj to help change the market for a potential players they want.

Woj could be very useful to a team who might want to use his services to help them either attract a free agent or just help them in a trade market. I believe that teams around the league should use Woj to help themselves out in the market. Woj is a very reliable source to many people, reporters, players, and teams around the league. What he says is always right, it seems like, and teams should take advantage of this.