Adam Silver

Again, I think we've made progress. My sense is that as various forms of replay get better and get faster... Look, the problem is, by definition, you're fooling the ref. And if you get away with it, especially in real time, all you can do after the fact is potentially find the players. And I think you said it. The embellishment is the hardest because...

Now, their teaching in youth basketball is, you know, you want to demonstrate to the officials, at least the way they're taught, is to embellish so that the official clearly sees. So, you know, you're often seeing somebody shoved and they're going flying backwards. And then so the official in real time and I and I understand, too, you know,

Now, their teaching in youth basketball is, you know, you want to demonstrate to the officials, at least the way they're taught, is to embellish so that the official clearly sees. So, you know, you're often seeing somebody shoved and they're going flying backwards. And then so the official in real time and I and I understand, too, you know,

Now, their teaching in youth basketball is, you know, you want to demonstrate to the officials, at least the way they're taught, is to embellish so that the official clearly sees. So, you know, you're often seeing somebody shoved and they're going flying backwards. And then so the official in real time and I and I understand, too, you know,

you know player frustration fan frustration sometimes with the officiating we're doing everything we can to to to make it better but i i when i watch the officials it's remarkable to me what they can do in real time i mean when you think in a split second and the speed of the game to making those calls and then add flopping on top of that or embellishment that they're supposed to be able to discern the difference and you know the the amount of force that's going into a push and the reaction from the players i i i will say that that you know

you know player frustration fan frustration sometimes with the officiating we're doing everything we can to to to make it better but i i when i watch the officials it's remarkable to me what they can do in real time i mean when you think in a split second and the speed of the game to making those calls and then add flopping on top of that or embellishment that they're supposed to be able to discern the difference and you know the the amount of force that's going into a push and the reaction from the players i i i will say that that you know

you know player frustration fan frustration sometimes with the officiating we're doing everything we can to to to make it better but i i when i watch the officials it's remarkable to me what they can do in real time i mean when you think in a split second and the speed of the game to making those calls and then add flopping on top of that or embellishment that they're supposed to be able to discern the difference and you know the the amount of force that's going into a push and the reaction from the players i i i will say that that you know

Technology, the changes in technology will help us there. I mean, just shifting slightly doesn't go directly to flopping. But guys are constantly trying to fool the officials when, who did it touch last? They're pointing and et cetera.

Technology, the changes in technology will help us there. I mean, just shifting slightly doesn't go directly to flopping. But guys are constantly trying to fool the officials when, who did it touch last? They're pointing and et cetera.

Technology, the changes in technology will help us there. I mean, just shifting slightly doesn't go directly to flopping. But guys are constantly trying to fool the officials when, who did it touch last? They're pointing and et cetera.

We're not that far away from having technology where, just like you think in tennis, where there's an automated call as to whether the ball was inside the line or outside the line. It's this technology called Hawkeye. It's owned by Sony. We're working with Sony also to bring that to basketball so that

We're not that far away from having technology where, just like you think in tennis, where there's an automated call as to whether the ball was inside the line or outside the line. It's this technology called Hawkeye. It's owned by Sony. We're working with Sony also to bring that to basketball so that

We're not that far away from having technology where, just like you think in tennis, where there's an automated call as to whether the ball was inside the line or outside the line. It's this technology called Hawkeye. It's owned by Sony. We're working with Sony also to bring that to basketball so that

whoever's, you know, I think there's 100 fingers on the floor at any given time, various body parts, you know, to instantaneously show who the ball went out on, you know, if somebody's foot was on the line, anything that can be objectively determined, goaltending, et cetera. And I think that will allow, so one, there'll be a whole category of calls that will be objectively right or wrong.

whoever's, you know, I think there's 100 fingers on the floor at any given time, various body parts, you know, to instantaneously show who the ball went out on, you know, if somebody's foot was on the line, anything that can be objectively determined, goaltending, et cetera. And I think that will allow, so one, there'll be a whole category of calls that will be objectively right or wrong.

whoever's, you know, I think there's 100 fingers on the floor at any given time, various body parts, you know, to instantaneously show who the ball went out on, you know, if somebody's foot was on the line, anything that can be objectively determined, goaltending, et cetera. And I think that will allow, so one, there'll be a whole category of calls that will be objectively right or wrong.

And we'll speed up the game from that standpoint. But just as importantly, for those more subjective calls, the officials won't have to both be looking at somebody's feet to see if they touch the line and their hands at the same time. They can really focus on what is truly subjective.

And we'll speed up the game from that standpoint. But just as importantly, for those more subjective calls, the officials won't have to both be looking at somebody's feet to see if they touch the line and their hands at the same time. They can really focus on what is truly subjective.

And we'll speed up the game from that standpoint. But just as importantly, for those more subjective calls, the officials won't have to both be looking at somebody's feet to see if they touch the line and their hands at the same time. They can really focus on what is truly subjective.

And I think we'll be able to do a better job sort of discerning whether there's some kind of embellishment going on. So if the standard is perfection, we've got a long ways to go. But I think we've made improvements there.