Bomani Jones won’t have his ESPN contract renewed

The sports media bloodbath at ESPN apparently isn’t over. 

Bomani Jones appears to be the latest big-name sports personality to leave the Worldwide Leader.

The network isn’t planning on renewing Jones’ contract when it expires at the end 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 but struggled to gain viewership.

Jones didn’t confirm his departure but did tell FOS that the company hasn’t shown interest in extending his contract. 

“The economic fate of people in sports media is getting dicier and dicier by the day,” Jones told the outlet. “I think the ESPN layoffs were the beginning of it in a lot of ways. Seeing what happened [with] the New York Times shutting down their sports department and they moved those people to other desks, but at some point they’re probably going to deem those people to be surplus and they’re not going to be there anymore.”

Jones joins a long list of well-known sports media talents leaving ESPN over the last month. 

In June, the company laid off roughly 20 on-air personalities, including stars such as Jeff Van Gundy, Max Kellerman, Keyshawn Johnson, Suzy Kolber, and Jalen Rose.

Jones had been with the network for nearly two decades, joining ESPN as a writer in 2004. 

In 2010, Jones began appearing on “Around the Horn” and “Outside the Lines.”

He would later co-host the now-defunct “Highly Questionable” and “High Noon.”

He currently hosts “The Right Time with Bomani Jones,” which originated as a radio show and is now one of ESPN’s top-performing podcasts.

Jones, 42, has made a name for himself in the sports media world by being unafraid to talk about sports-related political and social issues. 

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

Jones had been averaging more than $2 million per year on a previous deal before the company cut his salary to just north of $1 million per year, per Marchand.