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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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
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
I'm reaching for my phone. We all carry a TV with us everywhere we go now. I look at the kinds of things I would put you guys in the category of nontraditional media, that the amazing popularity now of podcasts like yours, people's enormous amount of time looking at screens, listening to audio feeds of things. The other thing about us moving into July
It's sort of, let's just say, okay, you can move the finals into July. Then you got, we have our summer league. When does the, you know, and, and part of it, it's, it's actual consideration. Like when do they get vacation?
And part of it is, it's always in our, the tradition, this league, there's sort of the equivalent of a summer vacation that matches up with family vacations. Even once, you know, summer league ends, it's sort of the third week of July, you know, things can settle down a little bit, you know, in, you know, for the last part of July and August.
And now I'm not talking about the league office, largely for the players and the rest on their body and everything else. So, you know, I will say, you know, I think all these things we will continue to look at. I don't think in the short term we'll do it.
I just last say, I mean, there used to be this notion, you know, in television they call it hut levels, households using television, that traditionally because of summer vacation and things, that once you got to July 1st, there were fewer people watching television, which is why, again, historically, you know, all the primetime shows, you know, when we were younger, would launch in the fall.
You can almost think of the beginning of the NFL season when all the shows would launch. I think, though, now, as I said, like, people's television habits have changed dramatically. Like, streaming has changed a lot of those conventions. Like, new shows launch on Netflix all the time. You know, in July, nobody thinks twice about it. So I think these are all things that we'll continue to look at.
Not a good idea.
You lost me on the beat the shit out of him part. I was with you up to like, all right, you can single out one fan and then we'll review that fan's conduct. Think about the ratings, though.
We'll bring a cage. Yeah, sure. Of the arena. Is the fan allowed to fight back? Yes, yes.
Like, you don't want to call— No, I didn't fully consider your idea.
Yeah. You know what's so interesting? I will say I'm a New Yorker. I'm a Rangers fan. and go to games occasionally. And as you guys remember, there was that era, again, back to the 90s when there was a fair amount of fighting in the league. And David Stern, you know, he cracked down on it. You know, we had automatic suspensions walking off the bench and all that.
And it's still surprising me to this day when I go to a hockey game and they face up And the officials step back. Yeah. Yeah. You know, and I get I mean, there's there's there's, you know, it's part of the culture of hockey.
And I know I've heard the arguments that by having allowing players to fight things out in that way actually cuts down on violence in certain cases by having enforcers and everything else. It's obviously so foreign to the NBA. But, you know, based on the idea you're sharing, think about it. I'll share it with Gary Bettman to maybe bring fans in as well. Yeah. Yeah.
I'm available.
For which team?
Thank you, Commissioner. Thanks, guys, so much.
Thank you.
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