If you know me, you know I had a lot beefs over the years.
Some made sense, some didn’t.
I’m a tough character.
Listen people change, carrying around a ton of weight and beefs gets to be heavy sometimes.
It’s nice to start dropping a few of them, makes things easier.
One of my longest and earliest beefs was with one of The NBA’s biggest reporters Adrian Wojnarowski.
Let me lay it out to you all.
Son of legendary HS Coach Bob Hurley and brother to Duke standout and NBA draft pick Bobby Hurley.
Coaching circles on Twitter were abuzz with schools Danny Hurley could rise to.
Everyone was putting him on short lists for bigger jobs.
I know … crazy right?
The entire Island was abuzz.
Meatballs were half off at every Salumeria and people were dancing to house music in the streets.
Christmas lights were synched up to start matching the beat.
Velour sweatsuits were being worn with pride.
Finally little Staten Island was on the map for basketball and took down a powerhouse.
Christmas parties were flowing with the finest wines.
The Island was going nuts and celebrating.
Social media was also abuzz.
One of which I said a take I found to be pretty rational at the time.
It was then I got a breakthrough.
I received a DM from WOJ!
Here’s the DM.
I was even appalled to be honest.
How could a guy so connected not think he was going to take a different job?
How could a friend not be excited for another friend?
He unfollowed me so I couldn’t respond.
I just had to eat it.
Then again, he was the expert and I was just dreaming of becoming a college basketball power broker.
I had to stay silent and let the situation play out.
Although it always sat wrong with me the way this man talked down to me.
The “I’m right” at the end I vowed to never forget.
Quick fact check, Rhode Island isn’t within a commutable distance from the NJ area.
You get the point.
He had blocked me and refused to issue an apology.
Last night I was attending the East Regional and knew Woj was in attendance.
Fairly quickly I go to MSG and made my way to Woj himself.
The convo went as follows .
RB : “Hey Adrian , fan of your work.
I’m here to put this all to bed.”
Woj : “Put what to bed?”
Woj : “What do you mean?”
RB : “Do you remember any tweets about you saying Danny Hurley not leaving NJ?
I’m the guy.”
Woj : “Oh yea Bosco”
RB : “Yeah well he left you were wrong.”
Woj “It was a private conversation.”
RB : " Ok I’ll put it to bed but you admit you were wrong ?"
Woj : “Yeah I was wrong it’s over.”
I consider that a very happy, very civil way of ending the beef.
I want to shed those weights and live much more free and loose.
This was a start.
Even though if we were keeping score .. .I was right.
