Getty Images/Ringer illustration The longtime NBA scoop king announced his retirement on Wednesday, capping a prolific career that reshaped the sports media industry in his image. Why is Woj hanging up his tweets now? And what does his exit mean for the NBA? Before he became the bespectacled gatekeeper of the NBA's shadowy inner sanctum of power brokers and politicians, before he became an online oracle for the Worldwide Leader, Adrian Wojnarowski was a Yahoo Sports columnist who turned Eastern Conference finals gamers into verses out of Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. His prose was all fire and brimstone; all killer, all filler: "The Championship of Me comes crashing into a primetime cable infomercial that LeBron James and his cronies have been working to make happen for months, a slow, cynical churning of manufactured drama that sports has never witnessed," Wojnarowski opened his excoriation of LeBron's infamous 2010 The Decision. "As historic monuments go, this is the Rushmore of basketball hubris and narcissism. The vacuous star for our vacuous times. All about 'Bron and all about nothing." It was such a banger of a lede, Woj would go on to paraphrase himself in the...