Adam Silver

speaker

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.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 12 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 10.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

The Dan Patrick Show · The Best of The Dan Patrick Show · 23 Jun 2026 podcast

But having said that, my goal sitting here isn't to ensure we have yet a ninth different champion next year.

I think if there's roughly parity of opportunity, and through strong management and great players, teams can repeat, that's great too.

I just think that fans want a sense that it's not top heavy as it was historically in the NBA.

Remember,

Three teams won 60% of the championships over the first 65 years of this league.

And, you know, David Stern used to joke, you know, when he first became commissioner, you were just going back and forth from Boston to L.A.

That was the job.

And I think, you know, as much as, and I get that question all the time, like, oh, aren't dynasties great?

They're great, I think, depending on how they're formed.

I don't think fans are as enthusiastic about them if one team is spending drastically more than another team.

So I like where we are, and I'm not rooting for either one of those trends to continue.

But again, I think going into this coming season, new talent coming into the league, a lot of deep talent around the league, I think there will be teams that are favored, but I think more fans will believe in their teams and their teams have a legitimate shot to win.

Always the sports betting stuff.

I mean, no question about it.

I mean, both.

You know, when it was illegal, it kept us up, and when it's legal, it keeps us up.

I mean, in some ways, you know, you can better monitor it when it's legal, but a lot of the bad stuff is happening illegally.

But I think given the prevalence of enormous amount of sports betting in our society, and by the way, now it's the prediction markets too.

Those are really sports betting platforms.

I mean, everybody has a lot of chatter around predictions around wars and elections and things, but the majority of the money on those platforms is around sports.

Showing 141–160 of 760 · page 8 of 38