Adam Silver

I think it was when I was presenting the championship trophy on the floor at the end of last year's All-Star Game. I think everybody was incredibly disappointed, at least speaking for the fans and the league office. It wasn't what we had hoped for.

And then once I had an opportunity to talk to the players afterwards, I think they acknowledged as well, whatever happened, once they got out there, there wasn't any real competition. This was in Indianapolis, like Larry Bird had talked to the team in advance. Julius Erving had others. We thought we'd all come together with something that we thought would be effective. It obviously wasn't.

And then once I had an opportunity to talk to the players afterwards, I think they acknowledged as well, whatever happened, once they got out there, there wasn't any real competition. This was in Indianapolis, like Larry Bird had talked to the team in advance. Julius Erving had others. We thought we'd all come together with something that we thought would be effective. It obviously wasn't.

And then once I had an opportunity to talk to the players afterwards, I think they acknowledged as well, whatever happened, once they got out there, there wasn't any real competition. This was in Indianapolis, like Larry Bird had talked to the team in advance. Julius Erving had others. We thought we'd all come together with something that we thought would be effective. It obviously wasn't.

I think then, post-All-Star game, talking to several of the players, the perennial All-Stars who we knew would be back, we said, look, we just got to do a better job for the fans. We recognize that you just can't turn the clock back. You know, obviously the NFL and Pro Bowl went to flag football. Baseball's done some changes to tweak their All-Star game.

I think then, post-All-Star game, talking to several of the players, the perennial All-Stars who we knew would be back, we said, look, we just got to do a better job for the fans. We recognize that you just can't turn the clock back. You know, obviously the NFL and Pro Bowl went to flag football. Baseball's done some changes to tweak their All-Star game.

I think then, post-All-Star game, talking to several of the players, the perennial All-Stars who we knew would be back, we said, look, we just got to do a better job for the fans. We recognize that you just can't turn the clock back. You know, obviously the NFL and Pro Bowl went to flag football. Baseball's done some changes to tweak their All-Star game.

So I said, what can we do to make this exciting and entertaining for the fans? And this is how we came up with this new format.

So I said, what can we do to make this exciting and entertaining for the fans? And this is how we came up with this new format.

So I said, what can we do to make this exciting and entertaining for the fans? And this is how we came up with this new format.

That's the evening part of my job. The day part, it's more like a standard business job in many ways than people would think. I mean, you've got 30 teams, of course. We've got the WNBA we're overseeing as well, the G League. We have a league in Africa now. We're looking at opportunities in Europe. So part of it is planning for the future. Another aspect of it is just regulating this league.

That's the evening part of my job. The day part, it's more like a standard business job in many ways than people would think. I mean, you've got 30 teams, of course. We've got the WNBA we're overseeing as well, the G League. We have a league in Africa now. We're looking at opportunities in Europe. So part of it is planning for the future. Another aspect of it is just regulating this league.

That's the evening part of my job. The day part, it's more like a standard business job in many ways than people would think. I mean, you've got 30 teams, of course. We've got the WNBA we're overseeing as well, the G League. We have a league in Africa now. We're looking at opportunities in Europe. So part of it is planning for the future. Another aspect of it is just regulating this league.

There's constantly things happening with teams, business decisions they're making that if you want to make sure everything's unified as a league, that you have to coordinate among the many teams. We have what I was mentioning before about people coming together in the Bay Area.

There's constantly things happening with teams, business decisions they're making that if you want to make sure everything's unified as a league, that you have to coordinate among the many teams. We have what I was mentioning before about people coming together in the Bay Area.

There's constantly things happening with teams, business decisions they're making that if you want to make sure everything's unified as a league, that you have to coordinate among the many teams. We have what I was mentioning before about people coming together in the Bay Area.

We have literally hundreds of business partners, licensees who produce our products, broadcast partners, media partners who distribute our games.

We have literally hundreds of business partners, licensees who produce our products, broadcast partners, media partners who distribute our games.

We have literally hundreds of business partners, licensees who produce our products, broadcast partners, media partners who distribute our games.

know more traditional sponsors like pepsi and amex and gatorade and companies like that and so a lot of it's in the relationship side continuing to build those relationships with our partners negotiating deals with them helping to plan for the future it's also we're a huge enterprise in terms of our budgets and so i think more that's the part where it's more like a standard job like we have thousands of employees and you know we have an hr department a legal department a marketing department