If there’s one thing we know about The Athletic’s NBA newsbreaker Shams Charania, it’s that he cannot be without his phone.
It’s been reported that he spends upwards of 17-plus hours per day on his phone because he does not want a competitor to beat him to a scoop. He’s even shared a screenshot of his screen time, which had him averaging 19 hours per day during NBA free agency.
Not even joking: If you take away Shams’ phone, you’re taking away a sense of security for him. He needs that phone. So, during Thursday’s edition of Up & Adams, we saw Charania at his absolute peak stress level when Kay Adams suddenly took away his phone.
He couldn’t believe it.
.@heykayadams snatched @ShamsCharania's phone and had him SWEATING 😭😭😭 pic.twitter.com/XKavBnf8u9
— Up & Adams (@UpAndAdamsShow) October 26, 2023
Charania was looking around as if he needed someone to help him and tried to smile through the most stressful 10 seconds of his career. Adams knew what that was doing to Charania too. Those precious seconds are all it takes for Woj to scoop him on a potential James Harden trade.
“I love love” I can’t stop laughing https://t.co/252gjMz7xT
— Kay Adams (@heykayadams) October 26, 2023
Fans thought that the exchange was hilarious even if Shams was STRESSED.
This was how Twitter reacted
Internally this man was screaming 🤣🤣🤣 https://t.co/0jj0LwqWDp pic.twitter.com/KETqubMKup
— Sam Hunter (@slamminsam25) October 26, 2023
Shams is legit freaking out. https://t.co/KihFZJsI0k pic.twitter.com/YWLa9ircvu
— 🎃 Jack 5KLellington 💀 (@5kl) October 26, 2023
He played this nice and cool but you could tell he was legit STRESSED lmao https://t.co/JNEHhAzm0y
— B.W. Carlin (@BaileyCarlin) October 26, 2023
Shams started looking around like https://t.co/7xJheoeT4V pic.twitter.com/XNqXWsQMNK
— Jason Costanza (@DaBadyBurner) October 26, 2023
Shams’ life flashed before his eyes when he lost access to his phone https://t.co/Pf7Tgika8a
— Alex Restrepo (@Repo) October 26, 2023
Woj just broke 3 stories while Shams got his phone snatched damn… https://t.co/aH4BHQNIO8
— GoldenKnight (@GoldenKnightGFX) October 26, 2023
Kay has shams in hell https://t.co/CZ5qOAC1tZ
— Kirk (@kirkgwong) October 26, 2023
Playing w the Mans livelihood 😂 https://t.co/LVcdUNHiND
— Jeri Tsai (@JeriTsaiNets) October 26, 2023
https://t.co/91rPEqkDTZ pic.twitter.com/8jb6lgvkRl
— 🟣🏀 Chris (@HoopSpaces) October 26, 2023
