Adam Silver

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Pardon My Take · NFL Draft With Daniel Jeremiah, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, Sixers Even The Series, NBA/NHL Playoffs + Guys On Chicks · 22 Apr 2026 podcast

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So it's not an existential threat at all.

It's interesting what's happening in college sports.

If anything, it's actually positive because some of the players who are being lured out of college sports, who clearly were in college basketball, who were not going to be top draft picks, were being otherwise convinced that they were.

Then they weren't getting drafted, or they were getting drafted at the end of the second round.

They weren't making rosters.

And then they had lost their eligibility, and then they were going to Europe or wherever else to play.

It's much better for us that the guys who aren't ready to come into the NBA stay and compete at a high level in college.

And what you're also seeing now with so-called NIL, I'm not sure that money is all really name, image, likeness, but guys are being paid that

I'm sure you noticed in the NCAA tournament how many more international names there were.

Yeah, for sure.

So you now have a group of players who otherwise would have stayed in Europe but can make more money, who stayed in Europe to play professionally but can make more money in college.

And they're, in many cases, getting better development and more eyes on them from NBA scouts and teams.

So I use that as...

you know, a ramp onto, you know, level of NBA competition right now.

I mean, just look at these playoffs, look around the league.

I mean, you have, you know, that old, you know, LeBron obviously still playing incredible level 41, you know, you know, some of the all-time greats still out on the floor, but like this whole new generation of players coming into the league, many of them international, that's what's really fueling the league right now is this, this, the credible talent that these young players have.

I have, and I don't want to go to jail.

Okay.

I don't want to commit a felony.

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