Adam Silver
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard 26 Jun
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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
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 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.
it's interesting to say that like number one we did you know a couple years ago we changed the format at the end of the game we reduced the number of timeouts and we reduced the ability for officials to go to discretionary reviews i mean you recall just a few years ago virtually every play towards the last two minutes you know the players were going like this you know so we added one more coaches challenge
But we reduced those discretionary views. And I think that's made a big difference. And to your point, I've had many players and coaches tell me over the years that they would prefer speed to accuracy in certain cases, because especially near the end of the game, when... There's those long reviews. Guys are literally getting cold standing there, getting out of rhythm.
And they just assume, say, all right, red ball and move forward and move on, as opposed to waiting for the endless reviews. And as I said, I think back to the technology that some people also don't like that we might have a different standard in the last two minutes. But look, when you have...
A game like basketball where there's a lot of scoring, even if there's a bad call in the second quarter, you can make up for it over the course of the game. But you can't necessarily in the last two minutes. So I'm in favor of there potentially being more scrutiny.
But as I was saying, if you can use technology and take a whole category of calls off the table and that they're now objective, I think we can reduce the number of replays. Because also in those calls, just like in tennis, you'll see sort of the quick animation. I think you need transparency. People don't want to just be told. you know, bull's ball. They want to know what happened.
And just like in Tennessee, ding, ding, ding, ding, you'll see like some animation, you'll see what's going on. But then and also if you think back like some early days in tennis, there was a lot more arguing, you know, with the officials. And now once you see that animation, you know, and there's an ooh and an ah from the fans that just barely touch the line or whatever else.
But, you know, it's play on. And I think everyone would prefer that.
Yeah, suck it up week.
If I say I'm thinking about it, does that mean it's under consideration? Yeah, you've already thought about it. It's under consideration.
Yeah, right. Tough shit. You know, it's interesting, though, but I've actually made that point, not using those same language, but human error is part of this game. It's certainly part of the game when a player misses a shot, somehow it gets lost sometimes, that it's also part of the game when an official makes a mistake. And I get it.
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.
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.
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.
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