His reputation may not be quite as legendary as William Wesley?s, but that hasn?t deterred Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports from throwing his hat in the ring of NBA movers and shakers.  The pen is mightier than the sword and when Wojnarowski has a grudge, journalistic integrity doesn?t stand a chance.

As the Late Summer of Melo nears the start of training camp, Wojnarowski is working overtime to see if he can help railroad Carmelo Anthony into accepting banishment to mediocrity and irrelevancy in New Jersey.  Wojnarowski Tweets ... he Facebooks ... he occasionally even writes a story on Yahoo.com ... fighting the big bad influence of NBA superstars, their all-too-powerful agents, and the Evil Empire known as Madison Square Garden.

Need a media spokesman who can use his soapbox to make your case?  Oddly, but as luck would have it, Wojnarowski seems more than happy to soil his media credentials ? and perhaps mortgage his career ? to enthusiastically do the bidding of those kinder and gentler teams that he?s handpicked as the most deserving of good fortune.

After weeks dragging Carmelo Anthony through the mud, Wojnarowski is now here to offer his services as a trusted advisor to the superstar as he makes up his mind where to play next.

"The Nets have reshaped the franchise under new Russian billionaire owner, Mikhail Prokhorov," Wojnarowski writes.  "They have resources unmatched in the NBA and will move out of the decrepit Meadowlands arena and into the state-of-the-state [sic] Prudential Center in Newark, N.J., this season."

"Anthony still has his heart set on the New York Knicks, but he could discover the Nets are a compromise he?ll have to accept to get his $65 million extension and get into the metropolitan N.Y. market," continues Wojnarowski's plea.

Remember the good old days of the Summer of LeBron?  Wojnarowski was telling everyone that the Knicks were about to strikeout on all the big free agents.  Then when reports trickled in that Amar?e Stoudemire was leaning toward signing with the Knicks, Wojnarowski gently counseled Amar?e away from New York, coaxing other clubs to make a run at the Suns? free agent before his deal with the Knicks was final.  (Tommy Dee of the The Knicks Blog had actually broken the story about the Knicks closing in on Stoudemire but Wojnarowski took credit and never acknowledged Dee?s scoop.)

This goes way back, but strangely, Wojnarowski has never really offered one substantive reason to justify his angry obsession with the Knicks.  It?s all seemingly based on nothing more than his own peculiar distaste, to which he repeatedly and excessively exposes his readers.

When the Knicks met with LeBron James, Wojnarowski demeaned the team?s front-office members, taking the cheapest of cheap shots at Donnie Walsh, a man who has devoted a lifetime to the game of basketball.  Wojnarowski wrote that Walsh, who was using a wheelchair at the time, had not projected "an image of vibrancy" to LeBron.  (The offensive paragraph was later removed from his story without so much as an acknowledgment of the retraction, let alone an apology.)

In the end, it?s hard to tell whether Wojnarowski is a would-be power broker, frustrated in his current occupation, or just a fan.  One gets the sense that he might go to pieces if heaven forbid Melo says nyet to New Jersey.  Why?  Because then the next stop is Melo to the Knicks.  Sharpen Wojnarowski's quill.

Louis.Roxin@RealGM.com