Former WNBA player Chiney Ogwumike is staying with the Worldwide Leader In Sports.
ESPN gave studio analyst and former WNBA star Chiney Ogwumike a multi-year extension.
Ahead of Game 4 on Friday, ESPN, which is at the forefront of the WNBA’s media coverage, announced that it re-signed Ogwumike for four years, but the amount of the deal wasn’t disclosed.
Via The Athletic:
Chiney Ogwumike is the rare ESPN on-air talent with prominent assignments across both women’s basketball and the NBA — and those assignments are going to continue for the next four years.
ESPN will announce later today that Ogwumike has signed a multi-year extension to remain with the company. Her deal is for four years.
“I came into this environment as a young athlete, and this might sound silly, but I saw it as a place of opportunity, a place where I knew I could make an impact because my point of view was not really that available,” said Ogwumike, who joined ESPN in 2017 to co-anchor SportsCenter across Africa and as a part-time WNBA and NBA in-studio analyst, and one year later became one of the only full-time professional athletes to hold a full-time national sports media position. “It felt like family and it’s the home for the NBA and the NBA Finals, the WNBA, women’s college basketball and March Madness. To be where the main event is, and to have a part of shaping narratives, telling stories and advocating for players, to be able to show my joy for everything that comes from basketball which has transformed my life, I feel like I am of service in this space.”
According to the report, Chiney Ogwumike will have assignments that include studio analysis for the NBA, WNBA, and women’s college basketball.
She will also be a part of ESPN NBA Countdown, NBA Today, WNBA Countdown, NCAA Championship in The Studio, as well as Get Up, First Take, and SportsCenter.
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Very busy lady.
ESPN has been quite busy dishing out deals.
Kendrick Perkins, Tim Legler, Monica McNutt, and Chiney Ogwumike all received contract extensions from ESPN this week.
Chiney Ogwumike Was A Budding Star In Basketball Amid ESPN Career
Chiney Ogwumike will be on ESPN for the next few years after signing a new deal.
Before then, she was a star at Cypress Fairbanks High School, where she won the 5A State Championship in her sophomore and senior seasons, according to Wikipedia.
For college, she chose to go to Stanford, where she would end her career as the all-time career-scoring leader for either sex in Pac-12 Conference history. That record fell to Kelsey Plum in 2016.
Her great play got her drafted first overall in the 2014 WNBA draft by the Connecticut Sun.
She made history when she and her sister Nneka Ogwumike were named WNBA All-Stars, becoming the first pair of sisters to be selected for a WNBA All-Star game.
Chiney Ogwumike would also win the WNBA Rookie of the Year Award in 2014.
