Adam Silver
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760 appearances
15 recordings
7 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 26 Jun
Adam Silver’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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that necessitates an investigation.
In fact, one that's done outside of our office.
And again, I would also say I've been around the league long enough and different permutations of allegations and accusations that I'm a big believer in due process and fairness and you need to now let the investigation run its course.
There's a huge amount of our content that people can essentially consume for free.
I mean, this is very much a highlights-based sport.
So Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, you name it, any service, the New York Times for that matter, to the extent that your content is not behind a paid firewall.
There's an enormous amount of content out there.
YouTube, another example, that is advertising-based.
that consumers can consume.
Well, I went to law school in Chicago. Okay. I worked in Washington, D.C. for years. So I know you guys are D.C. and Chicago guys. That was a big part of the selling point of coming on. And you guys are fun to watch and listen to. You guys do an incredible job.
I appreciate it.
I'm feeling good about it. One, I love the Bay Area. Obviously, four championships there since... since I've been commissioner. So I've spent a lot of time in the market and multiple finals appearances beyond that. Beautiful new arena in San Francisco.
A new format that we've talked a lot about, you know, where, you know, in essence, working with the Players Association, we came up with this format where it's in essence around Robin, you know, games to 40, then a championship. So I think that's going to be really exciting for the fans. And I also, for us,
You know, as important as the game itself is, it becomes the epicenter of the basketball world for that weekend. It's essentially, you know, Friday, Saturday and Sunday of events, community events in Oakland and San Francisco. Opportunity to see old friends. I've been with the league for a long time and When you have a neutral site finals, you can't plan to gather there.
So essentially people who've been in business for us for a long time can mark their calendars, you know, be in the Bay Area. Our international partners can all be there as well. So it's sort of a three day long celebration of the game. And that for me is the best part about the whole the whole long weekend.
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.
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.
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.
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