Adam Silver

And if an official makes too many mistakes, they can't be an official in this league. But You're right. Perfection can't be the standard. There are going to be mistakes. And I think often what separates the best teams is their ability to move on from that mistake. And I just lastly say, we have seven-game series in the playoffs.

And I think that as some of the best basketball minds in the league will say, It's highly likely that at least for that week or two weeks, the better team is going to win the seven-game series. Yeah. Regardless of the officiate.

And I think that as some of the best basketball minds in the league will say, It's highly likely that at least for that week or two weeks, the better team is going to win the seven-game series. Yeah. Regardless of the officiate.

And I think that as some of the best basketball minds in the league will say, It's highly likely that at least for that week or two weeks, the better team is going to win the seven-game series. Yeah. Regardless of the officiate.

Yeah. Right?

Yeah. Right?

Yeah. Right?

I think you just saw in those trades we were talking about that – NBA seems ready made for social media. Yes. Yes, it does.

I think you just saw in those trades we were talking about that – NBA seems ready made for social media. Yes. Yes, it does.

I think you just saw in those trades we were talking about that – NBA seems ready made for social media. Yes. Yes, it does.

There has been. I mean, that is one thing that we have thought a fair amount about, and we've looked at different proposals. And I think for a lot of people, you're right, that there was always this notion that we, you know, in the old days, we would start on NBC on Christmas Day. We would start on network television on Christmas Day.

There has been. I mean, that is one thing that we have thought a fair amount about, and we've looked at different proposals. And I think for a lot of people, you're right, that there was always this notion that we, you know, in the old days, we would start on NBC on Christmas Day. We would start on network television on Christmas Day.

There has been. I mean, that is one thing that we have thought a fair amount about, and we've looked at different proposals. And I think for a lot of people, you're right, that there was always this notion that we, you know, in the old days, we would start on NBC on Christmas Day. We would start on network television on Christmas Day.

Sort of, you know, the regular season of the NFL had wound down. People could now move their attention to the NBA. The issue we have there

Sort of, you know, the regular season of the NFL had wound down. People could now move their attention to the NBA. The issue we have there

Sort of, you know, the regular season of the NFL had wound down. People could now move their attention to the NBA. The issue we have there

is one of moving into the summer and and by the way things are changing so rapidly culturally in terms of viewership and everything else that nothing no idea is ever completely dead but at least historically the thought was we wanted our season to be over by july 1st in essence and was sort of working backwards if you're going to get the draft in

is one of moving into the summer and and by the way things are changing so rapidly culturally in terms of viewership and everything else that nothing no idea is ever completely dead but at least historically the thought was we wanted our season to be over by july 1st in essence and was sort of working backwards if you're going to get the draft in

is one of moving into the summer and and by the way things are changing so rapidly culturally in terms of viewership and everything else that nothing no idea is ever completely dead but at least historically the thought was we wanted our season to be over by july 1st in essence and was sort of working backwards if you're going to get the draft in

in the last week of June, and you're going to therefore start the finals, anticipating you potentially could have a seven-game finals, it means you've got to start roughly June 1st, working backwards. That's how you end up with a training camp in October season that starts roughly the beginning of November. I mean, people's television habits have changed dramatically. I think in large part, we all