Adam Silver
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760 appearances
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard 26 Jun
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trying to sell calls to officials.
They're taught that in certain circumstances.
So in many cases, it actually is a foul, but you could argue they're overreacting to it.
And I think we've got to spend time looking at where that line is, where it's just...
In some cases, just a non-call.
And historically, if a player chose to fall to the ground but nothing was called and the ball's still in play, it's just a disadvantage to his team.
And the thought was, the player's just going to get up and he's going to stop doing that if the officials aren't rewarding them for that behavior.
But I also am listening to fans, and I think to a certain extent,
maybe to a large extent, fans don't necessarily want to see guys falling down on every play.
So that's something we'll pay more attention to this summer.
Yeah, it's an interesting comment.
I mean, one thing I've learned, I mean, the women's game is just different than the men's game.
I mean, ultimately, Monty McCutcheon is overseeing the entire officiating program, so there are different WNBA officials and, in certain cases, different managers of those officials, but overall, in totality, the program's overseen by the same people.
So, again, I think lessons learned for us over the years, too, just in
different approaches to the women's game and the men's game it's just it's just played differently to a certain extent but but you may be right i mean again i think that you know you know the direction to the officiating crew over the last few years has been sort of to recalibrate a bit to allow a more physical defense we don't necessarily want to go back where you know it was sort of brute force defense you and i remember those years and in some cases
it less from a skill standpoint it was just more physicality and I don't necessarily think people want that but I mean I think that the fans and the players like to be able to play physical defense and so to the extent then that you know players just falling down or whatever else is a result of that I think in most cases you know fans just want to see the flow of the game they don't want the constant stoppage in play so it's always just looking to find that right balance is there anything you need from me before we before we say goodbye
Maybe just to promote the draft tonight, ABC and ESPN at 8 p.m.
Eastern.
You know, there's a guy named Mike Bass, head of communications.
He's off camera right over there.
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