Bomani Jones gained’t have his ESPN contract renewed

The sports activities media massacre at ESPN apparently isn’t over. 

Bomani Jones seems to be the most recent big-name sports activities persona to go away the Worldwide Chief.

The community isn’t planning on renewing Jones’ contract when it expires on the finish of the month, according to a report from Front Office Sports. 

The breakup comes weeks after HBO canceled Jones’ “Game Theory with Bomani Jones,” which premiered in 2022 however struggled to achieve viewership.

Jones didn’t affirm his departure however did inform FOS that the corporate hasn’t proven curiosity in extending his contract. 

“The financial destiny of individuals in sports activities media is getting dicier and dicier by the day,” Jones informed the outlet. “I believe the ESPN layoffs had been the start of it in lots of methods. Seeing what occurred [with] the New York Instances shutting down their sports activities division and so they moved these folks to different desks, however in some unspecified time in the future they’re in all probability going to deem these folks to be surplus and so they’re not going to be there anymore.”

Jones joins an extended listing of well-known sports activities media abilities leaving ESPN over the past month. 

In June, the company laid off roughly 20 on-air personalities, together with stars akin to Jeff Van Gundy, Max Kellerman, Keyshawn Johnson, Suzy Kolber, and Jalen Rose.

Jones had been with the community for almost 20 years, becoming a member of ESPN as a author in 2004. 

In 2010, Jones started showing on “Across the Horn” and “Outdoors the Strains.”

He would later co-host the now-defunct “Extremely Questionable” and “Excessive Midday.”

He at the moment hosts “The Proper Time with Bomani Jones,” which originated as a radio present and is now certainly one of ESPN’s top-performing podcasts.

Jones, 42, has made a reputation for himself within the sports activities media world by being unafraid to speak about sports-related political and social points. 

The Publish’s Andrew Marchand beforehand reported that Jones was likely to depart ESPN in March 2022. 

Jones had been averaging greater than $2 million per yr on a earlier deal earlier than the corporate minimize his wage to simply north of $1 million per yr, per Marchand.