Adam is more comfortable speaking in an open format about his league than any other of the top 4 sports. Says a lot about his character and a lot about the NBA and its goals.
Lol? Nba is worst it's ever been. They are ejecting players 5 minutes into the game for looking at people wrong. They control the whole spread at a 95 percent clip with ridiculous foul calls. There is no defense. You can go on and on and it's all Adam silvers fault. F Adam silver and f the nba.
How amazing Adam Silver is as a interviewee is astonishing to me, he's so informational and speak so well about his points. He's the best one they had on this show yet.
Adam Silver ARGUABLY, IS A PRIME EXAMPLE of the type of guy you want as a commissioner. I’m NOT saying he’s perfect but he looks out for the players. He banned a racist owner named Donald Sterling for life. THAT IS HOW YOU HANDLE BUSINESS. You know that wouldn’t happen in the NHL and NFL. We all know that the NFL, and NHL are savage. All the NFL cares about is the next dollar. That’s why they got nailed with that concussion settlement. Once a player gets released, the NFL treats the player like they never existed. People that I’ve met that played in the NFL told me that. The NHL isn’t much better with players losing teeth and the fist fights that go on there. The MLB has a steroid problem but I think that’s more under control now. That MLB Commissioner Mr. Manfred Jr. seems to be alright. You don’t hear much negativity since he replaced Bud Selig.
Yea he definitely well respected.....and out of all 4 major sports the NBA is of course a players league.....not saying there perfect but compared to other sports they are the best
He came out the gate swinging. Immediately earned my respect. And that was public, who knows what he’s done behind closed doors leading to getting rid of the Suns owner? He speaks plainly & clearly.
I love the 65 game rule. It’s one of those things that later in the future, we will learn to appreciate. The issue is that players are getting paid life changing F.U money to have a reduced role in their respective teams. And I think as a business owner, that’s the best thing you can ask for, your people to show up to work. They’re asking to show up at least 80% of the time. Any other job, showing up less, regardless of how valuable you are, you’ll be fired.
Adam Silver is brilliant... the marketing approach for the next era of telecasts should cater to as many human creature comforts on a dopamine feed. Whether that's good, socially... meeeh, but as business goes... 😮
Yeah thank him for having to bribe his millionaire players to play and play hard worst commissioner and NBA is going down all other eras evolved the league now everyone is for themselves and this clown says there more popular flat lie look it up
Louisville, Pittsburgh, Nashville, Montreal and San Diego deserve to have a NBA team too. I sincerely believe that the NBA & NBC are going to reunite with each other in a new tv deal. NBA & Amazon would bond together very well.
YES!. So bummed when we lost the Grizz. Was lucky enough to see Kobe and Shaq courtside. Lol, and Vince not dunking and the crowd booing him. A home team booing a guy not on your team for not dunking was hilarious.
If anything, if there was such a Canadian city that strongly deserves an NBA team, it would be Montreal, Canada's second largest city, second largest corporate center, and media. Vancouver isn't even the third largest corporate market in Canada, that would be Calgary!
I think Adam silver is the best of the big 4 commissioners. Genuinely a nice guy who shows his passion and commitment to the goodening of his product. Much respect
@@kdogglv Seattle isn’t the only city in the United States that has a fentanyl/drug/homeless problem…maybe you should do some research before you talk.
Screw Vegas & Seattle, give us back our vancouver team Adam! we still talk about em, we still wear their stuff, and we sell out everytime the raps come to town now.
I’m thinking if there’s an actual reason that they don’t want to, it might be cause the players don’t want it. I think, just based on free agency signings (and I could have missed something), that Toronto has trouble getting big named free agents and there’s no reason to believe that Vancouver would be different
Those are the 2 teams rumored to have expansion teams. They’ll more than likely move Nola and Memphis over to the eastern conference and bring Vegas and Seattle to western conference. Seems like a win win and win imo. Vegas and Seattle get their teams, nba gets two big markets and the eastern conference gets more competition.
32:58 i love the fact that he says Connor's name before answering the question. Its so simple, but most guests dont know or acknowledge the other guys on the show.
I only see two teams in terms of expansion and it's going to be Seattle & Vegas I don't foresee further expansion. Anybody else would have to be via relocation! Mexico City will get a basketball team before Pittsburgh or Cincinnati
It'll be two, and they'll likely move Memphis to the East to fit Seattle and Vegas in the west. They will also reconstruct divisions. 4 per division. West: Southwest: Houston Dallas San Antonio New Orleans Central West: Minnesota OKC Utah Denver West Pacific: LAL LAC Phoenix Las Vegas Northwest: Portland Seattle Sacramento Golden State East: SouthEast: Miami Orlando ATL Memphis East Atlantic: Charlotte Washington Philly Cleveland NorthEast: NY Brooklyn Toronto Boston CentralEast: Chicago Detroit Indiana Milwaukee
@JustAnotherAlex .... i agree except I think even though Memphis is the most East.... Minnesota would be the team coming east based upon how close they are to Chicago Milwaukee and Detroit Charlotte would be in the Southeast Division with the Florida teams & Atlanta
The NBA should allow all weekend, regular season games to be free as well as the Allstar weekend and nba finals. That would really help them continue to grow while still getting subscriptions from fans who want to see every game, games in other markets, etc. Because we don't see as many free games, there is a lot less hometown loyalty and therefore less people going to games in markets that aren't championship contenders.
The clippers last season are a prime example of load management backfiring. They load managed kwahi and pg all season. They were in the top 4, then dropped to 6th. This costing them home court. Then both stars got hurt in the first game.
this is exactly why I think Jordan wouldn’t be scoring what everyone thinks he would be because the style of play, it’s that his own teammates would want to get that incentive money too and plus shorter contracts, or you really want 1 player shooting the ball 40+ times a game
I wonder what would happen if NBA went the way of the NFL and had a lot more of the games on national television? I watched a ton of NFL games through Sunday football free channels. If more people had access, then wouldn't the NBA make a lot more on advertising with the respective channels and the deals there? A thought.
People just don’t consume the NBA. Problem is the fans are all young and they don’t watch tv . Basketball is the “cool” thing for that age . Like rap music. Eventually people grow up and gravitate to NFL.
Really cool just listening to him talk about all the things, smart dude & very well spoken. I will say this, I think they need to modify the 65-game thing to include an independent/NBA commissioned doctor review when someone is actually INJURED, and those games should not count against their eligibility for the length the doctor says. Halliburton is a great example of why that should be the case. Maybe even to counteract that a bit, raise the number to a minimum of 70 games played to be eligible & the only exceptions would be for injury terms. Example of why I feel that way: If someone that's having a truly great season and is pretty much guaranteed All-NBA etc, and then they go out for 4 weeks with something serious, they shouldn't be all but guaranteed to be excluded from awards because of that, is my perspective on that.
Poor Las Vegas. Won't somebody please think of precious Las Vegas? Forget their market size, they deserve everything on the planet. Forget they recently got NFL and NHL and probably MLB on the way too... they still deserve the whole entire world handed to them
Please please bring a team to KC. KC already had an NBA ready stadium and the fan base for it. Jayhawks basketball is huge, and the Big12 tourney is held there every year
Vegas will get a team in the next 2 years. Problem is that the casinos want all the action to be on the strip (for obvious reasons) which causes all sorts of traffic issues. I hope the NBA arena gets built a little away from the strip so that area can breathe a bit. Stadiums for Raiders, Golden Knights, A's (in the future) are all within a mile radius. Add an NBA team stadium and its a total disaster..
Not that this solves the issue but they might just make a deal with the golden knights to use their arena (I’m assuming it was probably paid for in large part by tax dollars anyways).
FORGET VEGAS. Fix the atrocity that snake Stern swiped the Sonics and return a team to Seattle. Isn't the same my team not playing against the Sonics every year. Then add Vancouver.
I live in the neighborhood across the street from the studio and see it almost every day. To clarify, there is intense security! Theres a giant skeletor or something at the front door and it scares the crap out of me when I see it. 😂
I live in Vegas. We need an NBA team and an arena to go with the Brightline Railway they are going to break ground on right at the beginning of the Summer this year.
It would never be appoved by the owners/players for financial reasons, but a 50 game season would do amazing for the watchability of the nba. Shorten the season a bit and remove all back to backs.
@@georgecoumbos2511I think if Canadians had more of a presence in the NBA like the nhl, there’d be more of a push for it, but as far as I can remember, no big free agent has ever signed with Toronto, so I imagine Vancouver would be in the same boat. It’s hard to convince an American (especially one with money like a pro athlete has) to move to Canada
Adam, you touched on it but you could never admit it publicly. NFL has every game as a stand alone event... They are all meaningful. NBA has diluted the basketball product so thinly that no one game has any meaning at all. Even the finals are "meh, we lost but we still have several more chances to progress". There is no tweak to fix this utterly broken format born from overwhelming greed. There are solutions but none of them are easy or subtle. One idea stands out to me as able satisfy all parties and keep the absurd amount of games roughly similar.... 16 teams each conference play home and away against each other = 30 games each. Finals are top 8 seeded ONE GAME ONLY. Until the champions of each conference play each other and then you can have best of whatever. This is your summer league... rinse and repeat again for your winter league. 2 season per calendar year. Every game is meaningful and there are ways to create intrigue and dynamism not available in the current format. Like... mixing the conferences between seasons. eg... top 8 from each conference in summer becomes the "american conference" in winter. Bottom eight from each conference in summer become the "National conference" in winter. This mixes up the competition in a merit based competitive way and gives lower teams a realistic chance to progress into finals in the short term. Everyone would hate it at first until 3 or four seasons in when it all makes sense and nobody would have it any other way.
Yea, you are right in sense as a fan, but i think in terms of revenue the amount of matches lowered would actually destroy the league since this basketball league works more on frequency of matches and amount of it compared to nfl. Also, with nfl vs nba there's mor differences than just one match or so, nfl is America's sports American game but if you look at basketball it has become non american and it has too many variables compared to nfl. Again i went on a tangent but i am pretty sure nba and mlb even to a large extent survives on the basis of frequency of matches
@@reclusedoggo3513 - Thanks for your feedback. To me, I find it hypocritical for the NBA leadership to publicly applaud another sport for what they are doing right while doing the exact opposite in the sport they are making decisions about. Furthermore, they are not even looking to make adjustments or changes to improve these fundamental flaws. To cap it off, the problems come as a direct result of overwhelming greed that has backfired enormously. The exact reasons Adam praises the NFL for is totally ignored in the NBA. A very small number of fans watche every single game their team plays in contrast to the NFL where most fans don't want to miss any of their teams games and are hungry for more so they often watch other games of interest. The numbers are overwhelming and conclusive. 202 million people Just in the US. Probably a larger number outside the US. All for ONE game. The NBA are well short of that for their whole season. They can't say "the fans are the priority" or "its all about the fans" and then focus all their attention on maximizing revenue at the cost of fan access, fan engagement, appreciation of the product AND get away with those lies. I notice the lies every time they speak and I don't accept it as ok. Don't you? In the coming years most people will be priced out of the product because they chase short term revenue at all costs. We have already seen this get worse by the year in all areas of life that corporation control. It is not going to get any better without pushback from the people.
We come together as a continental, if not global, collective for the Super Bowl as intensely as we do Christmas (Am I lyin'?!). I've been saying, for the last 20 years, it should literally be an American holiday.
That's completely the sentiment, @@DeeJayTrellz... who you gon' get to do their job, effectively, on that day, anyway, when all they're mentally preoccupied with is everything around what they're doin' for the event?!
"Going to see more defense and more of an actual game." Well, I don't think in any life time will I ever see a game have an actual score over 300. Bring back the 90's All Star games.
65 game rule is great. And if i read correctly, there have only been 4 MVPs in history that won MVP plaing less than 65 games. 2 of them, due to a lockout and shortend saison. So, nothing really special there. But JJ Redick had a great point on the super-max rule..that is nonsense and needs to change.. On load managment, i quote Sam Mitchell: if you are tired, skip a shootaround or training instead of not playing. Thats how they did it back in the time.
WHY NOT MAKE THE ALLSTAR GAMES FOR RIGHT AFTER THE SEASON AND CREATE A MORE SPACED OUT NBA SCHEDULE SO PLAYERS CAN REST WHILE STILL WATCHING BASKETBALL WITHIN A SIX MONTH PERIOD
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Adam is more comfortable speaking in an open format about his league than any other of the top 4 sports. Says a lot about his character and a lot about the NBA and its goals.
A likable guy...seen him interviewed many times over years...good sense of humor, good conversationalist.
The guy is a cockroach who ruined the regular season.
He ruined the regular season.
@@FailedNBAComissioner you seem totally unbiased and completely reasonable
Lol? Nba is worst it's ever been. They are ejecting players 5 minutes into the game for looking at people wrong. They control the whole spread at a 95 percent clip with ridiculous foul calls. There is no defense. You can go on and on and it's all Adam silvers fault. F Adam silver and f the nba.
NBA teams in Vegas and Seattle in the Western Conference. Put Memphis or New Orleans in the Eastern Conference
Makes most sense
Fire idea, good for Memphis and new Orleans because the east is weaker
Can you imagine 8 teams tanking by January?
Move OKC to the southwest Division and also Vegas is the pacific division
@@russenterprise6502I'd get rid of divisions they don't even matter nowadays
Adams candidness and lack of business jargon is a breath of fresh air.
Adam Silver shitting on the studio is top tier!!!! 😂😂😂
This guy allowed resting and ruined the regular season.
@@FailedNBAComissionerhow slow are you? That was the players sitting out. You blame Adam for the players not playing? You are slow casual fan
@@FailedNBAComissioner coach Pop is the reason you can fact check that
@@FailedNBAComissioner it already assume able that you don’t like Adam silver so you’re biased .. its not his fault
How amazing Adam Silver is as a interviewee is astonishing to me, he's so informational and speak so well about his points. He's the best one they had on this show yet.
I could listen to Adam Silver talk all day.
he could sell water to a fish
Adam is such a brilliant man. Best commish in sports!
He’s the reason that the NBA ratings are through the roof !
Ask him when Seattle gets their basketball team back
Fact give us our Sonics back
They said it before that their first priority is Vegas and Seattle
😂yeah I 😍 Super Sonic by Salt n Peppa 💯
@@UnknownRaiderGuy I need to hear it again, we have the arena we're ready
@@alphahalo3471 If that happens, I wish KD gets to that team
Adam Silver ARGUABLY, IS A PRIME EXAMPLE of the type of guy you want as a commissioner. I’m NOT saying he’s perfect but he looks out for the players. He banned a racist owner named Donald Sterling for life. THAT IS HOW YOU HANDLE BUSINESS. You know that wouldn’t happen in the NHL and NFL. We all know that the NFL, and NHL are savage. All the NFL cares about is the next dollar. That’s why they got nailed with that concussion settlement. Once a player gets released, the NFL treats the player like they never existed. People that I’ve met that played in the NFL told me that. The NHL isn’t much better with players losing teeth and the fist fights that go on there. The MLB has a steroid problem but I think that’s more under control now. That MLB Commissioner Mr. Manfred Jr. seems to be alright. You don’t hear much negativity since he replaced Bud Selig.
Yea he definitely well respected.....and out of all 4 major sports the NBA is of course a players league.....not saying there perfect but compared to other sports they are the best
He came out the gate swinging. Immediately earned my respect. And that was public, who knows what he’s done behind closed doors leading to getting rid of the Suns owner? He speaks plainly & clearly.
Bring back the Sonics Mr. Commissioner, please!!!!! 🙏
Exactly if there any team that deserves NBA team first it’s Seattle
@@papboybrooklyn77should not have lost their squad
I love the 65 game rule. It’s one of those things that later in the future, we will learn to appreciate. The issue is that players are getting paid life changing F.U money to have a reduced role in their respective teams. And I think as a business owner, that’s the best thing you can ask for, your people to show up to work. They’re asking to show up at least 80% of the time. Any other job, showing up less, regardless of how valuable you are, you’ll be fired.
Not how it works.
People load manage for playoffs.
We're sorry for your mental retardation. We will pray for you. @@user-kg4bh1di8i
You also don’t have as high a chance to tear your acl in most other professions 😂
Most of the stars load managing are doing it with the expectation of playing MORE games in the playoffs.
@@jackjohnson8244except Kyrie Irving.
I'm willing to bet that LeBron will be the majority owner of that Vegas team
Adam Silver is brilliant... the marketing approach for the next era of telecasts should cater to as many human creature comforts on a dopamine feed.
Whether that's good, socially... meeeh, but as business goes... 😮
Yeah thank him for having to bribe his millionaire players to play and play hard worst commissioner and NBA is going down all other eras evolved the league now everyone is for themselves and this clown says there more popular flat lie look it up
Louisville, Pittsburgh, Nashville, Montreal and San Diego deserve to have a NBA team too.
I sincerely believe that the NBA & NBC are going to reunite with each other in a new tv deal. NBA & Amazon would bond together very well.
You think they’ll be the first American league to expand to 36 teams?
@@squidMB possibly but I gotta feeling that the NHL will be the first
Commissioner Adam Silver is revered. I like how he talks to the room. Makes eye contact with everyone. He’s the best
Way better than that corrupt POS David stern
Stop the glaze he’s a goofy
I do like your comment & fully agree. But you have 69 likes. Not willing to ruin a good thing.
adam silver is the smartest commissioner in any sport bar none.
The Goat of Commissioners. Any league. Any era. He’s on the Mount Rushmore of commissioners.
ty should take notes from connor on how to ask a question in a timely manner
What a great guest. Lots of good talking points and, tbh, engaging speaker as well.
Kansas City needs a NBA team again 🏀
Of course should either be called Reign or knights
Vancouver needs our team back through expansion. Canada has proven it deserves another team.
YES!. So bummed when we lost the Grizz. Was lucky enough to see Kobe and Shaq courtside. Lol, and Vince not dunking and the crowd booing him. A home team booing a guy not on your team for not dunking was hilarious.
If anything, if there was such a Canadian city that strongly deserves an NBA team, it would be Montreal, Canada's second largest city, second largest corporate center, and media. Vancouver isn't even the third largest corporate market in Canada, that would be Calgary!
I love that Silver would love to say that lazy players have no facts that sitting half the season makes them better.
I think Adam silver is the best of the big 4 commissioners. Genuinely a nice guy who shows his passion and commitment to the goodening of his product. Much respect
I hope the NBA returns to NBC which I truly believe they will return in the 25-26 season.
Seattle deserves the nba team first, then LV
Seattle deserves nothing. They have Chaz Chop and the summer of love. How about they stop destroying their own city then worry about a basketball team
@@kdogglv Seattle isn’t the only city in the United States that has a fentanyl/drug/homeless problem…maybe you should do some research before you talk.
@@Mendoza1414 dude got the audacity to use that as a reason but conveniently forgot the sixers exist LOL
@@kdogglvthoughts on the Blazers?
@@nonameinserthere9809 ohh don't even get me started on Portland 😅🤣😂
Seattle first.
Best commissioner in all of sports 🤷🏼♂️💯
Adam silver is such a great commissioner !!!
There’s a weird fuzzy background noise coming out of Adam Silvers mic that comes up as he is speaking.
Stellar interview
Honestly the future is VR headset. I watched a basketball game and it felt like i was sitting court side. It was unbelievable
Yoo how can I do this ? What VR supports it ?
Right?
@@Chozin1 it was a demo
Screw Vegas & Seattle, give us back our vancouver team Adam!
we still talk about em, we still wear their stuff, and we sell out everytime the raps come to town now.
Love Seattle but you speaking facts!
I’m thinking if there’s an actual reason that they don’t want to, it might be cause the players don’t want it. I think, just based on free agency signings (and I could have missed something), that Toronto has trouble getting big named free agents and there’s no reason to believe that Vancouver would be different
I live in vegas and ppl been waiting for a vegas team so i hope they do get one the whole city will attend the games for sure
Seattle needs one
Adam Silver is bar none the best commissioner in North American sports. What this man does for the NBA is genius
Yea he is the best
Screw Vegas, what about Seattle?!??
Those are the 2 teams rumored to have expansion teams. They’ll more than likely move Nola and Memphis over to the eastern conference and bring Vegas and Seattle to western conference. Seems like a win win and win imo. Vegas and Seattle get their teams, nba gets two big markets and the eastern conference gets more competition.
They'll probably add 4 teams. What's more interesting is how they will do the draft for that.
na broo i want baltimore to get one and Louisville the reason it got relocated cause it didnt pay off
@@olegmanPittsburgh and Louisville
@@olegmanmaybe 6 - 8 cities
He looks like the warlock from game of thrones 😂
32:58 i love the fact that he says Connor's name before answering the question. Its so simple, but most guests dont know or acknowledge the other guys on the show.
Expansion: 4 teams
West: Seattle and Vegas
East: Pittsburgh and Cincinnati
I only see two teams in terms of expansion and it's going to be Seattle & Vegas
I don't foresee further expansion. Anybody else would have to be via relocation!
Mexico City will get a basketball team before Pittsburgh or Cincinnati
It'll be two, and they'll likely move Memphis to the East to fit Seattle and Vegas in the west. They will also reconstruct divisions. 4 per division.
West:
Southwest:
Houston
Dallas
San Antonio
New Orleans
Central West:
Minnesota
OKC
Utah
Denver
West Pacific:
LAL
LAC
Phoenix
Las Vegas
Northwest:
Portland
Seattle
Sacramento
Golden State
East:
SouthEast:
Miami
Orlando
ATL
Memphis
East Atlantic:
Charlotte
Washington
Philly
Cleveland
NorthEast:
NY
Brooklyn
Toronto
Boston
CentralEast:
Chicago
Detroit
Indiana
Milwaukee
@@JustAnotherAlex I honestly never understood how Memphis already isnt east
@JustAnotherAlex .... i agree except I think even though Memphis is the most East....
Minnesota would be the team coming east based upon how close they are to Chicago Milwaukee and Detroit
Charlotte would be in the Southeast Division with the Florida teams & Atlanta
@@wordonthestreetpodcast5472 : Used to be the Vancouver Grizzlies before they were moved to Memphis.
Adam silver is a beast. Such a genuine guy who cares about sports and people
Not gonna lie, after the intro from Pat, I was expecting entrance music for Adam... For some reason Eugenes entrance music came to mind
65 game rule is great.
The NBA should allow all weekend, regular season games to be free as well as the Allstar weekend and nba finals. That would really help them continue to grow while still getting subscriptions from fans who want to see every game, games in other markets, etc. Because we don't see as many free games, there is a lot less hometown loyalty and therefore less people going to games in markets that aren't championship contenders.
This is really good stuff here!
"We got navy seals" lmao
We need to be able to watch our local teams without paying $100 a month for cable!
Suns did that this year! Hopefully more teams follow
RUclips tv is $60
I never thought I would have seen this. Adam Silver is a treasure
The NBA is blessed to have a good fella like Adam in charge
Seattleeeeee!!!
Have a new appreciation for Adam Silver after watching this - what an intelligent guy.
Great interview !
Oh wow I can’t believe Adam Silver is live in person.
It will become my fourth favorite team. And it will replace third.
1. Knicks
2. Magic
3. *Vegas*
4. Nets
The clippers last season are a prime example of load management backfiring. They load managed kwahi and pg all season. They were in the top 4, then dropped to 6th. This costing them home court. Then both stars got hurt in the first game.
Real truth is 😂players don’t practice no more and hit the weight room no more.
I think Seattle should get an NBA team before Vegas. That should be their priority if they do wanna expand.
this is exactly why I think Jordan wouldn’t be scoring what everyone thinks he would be because the style of play, it’s that his own teammates would want to get that incentive money too and plus shorter contracts, or you really want 1 player shooting the ball 40+ times a game
what an amazing interview
I wonder what would happen if NBA went the way of the NFL and had a lot more of the games on national television? I watched a ton of NFL games through Sunday football free channels. If more people had access, then wouldn't the NBA make a lot more on advertising with the respective channels and the deals there? A thought.
Yep I've always said the same
People just don’t consume the NBA. Problem is the fans are all young and they don’t watch tv . Basketball is the “cool” thing for that age . Like rap music. Eventually people grow up and gravitate to NFL.
@@tonykiriakidis5219 lol
@@tonykiriakidis5219young kids are highlight junkie
No BS is astonishing from a commish. Hats off.
This was great. Pat and Adam can talk for hours.
Adam Silver doxing the boys first up is premium 😭😂
Pat with the quick recovery "a lot of security, navy seals" lol
ADAM IS THE MANNN!!!!!
So I’ll be joining them on set soon is what I’m hearing 😂 thanks silver
Really cool just listening to him talk about all the things, smart dude & very well spoken.
I will say this, I think they need to modify the 65-game thing to include an independent/NBA commissioned doctor review when someone is actually INJURED, and those games should not count against their eligibility for the length the doctor says. Halliburton is a great example of why that should be the case. Maybe even to counteract that a bit, raise the number to a minimum of 70 games played to be eligible & the only exceptions would be for injury terms.
Example of why I feel that way: If someone that's having a truly great season and is pretty much guaranteed All-NBA etc, and then they go out for 4 weeks with something serious, they shouldn't be all but guaranteed to be excluded from awards because of that, is my perspective on that.
Poor Las Vegas. Won't somebody please think of precious Las Vegas? Forget their market size, they deserve everything on the planet. Forget they recently got NFL and NHL and probably MLB on the way too... they still deserve the whole entire world handed to them
The real answer to the Vegas expansion question that he can't say: "When LeBron James retires."
Please please bring a team to KC. KC already had an NBA ready stadium and the fan base for it. Jayhawks basketball is huge, and the Big12 tourney is held there every year
Tons of security, navy seals 🤣
Bring Seattle back
Vegas will get a team in the next 2 years. Problem is that the casinos want all the action to be on the strip (for obvious reasons) which causes all sorts of traffic issues. I hope the NBA arena gets built a little away from the strip so that area can breathe a bit. Stadiums for Raiders, Golden Knights, A's (in the future) are all within a mile radius. Add an NBA team stadium and its a total disaster..
Not that this solves the issue but they might just make a deal with the golden knights to use their arena (I’m assuming it was probably paid for in large part by tax dollars anyways).
FORGET VEGAS. Fix the atrocity that snake Stern swiped the Sonics and return a team to Seattle. Isn't the same my team not playing against the Sonics every year.
Then add Vancouver.
💯
I live in the neighborhood across the street from the studio and see it almost every day. To clarify, there is intense security! Theres a giant skeletor or something at the front door and it scares the crap out of me when I see it. 😂
I live in Vegas. We need an NBA team and an arena to go with the Brightline Railway they are going to break ground on right at the beginning of the Summer this year.
Adam silver is the man!
It would never be appoved by the owners/players for financial reasons, but a 50 game season would do amazing for the watchability of the nba. Shorten the season a bit and remove all back to backs.
Bring the Seattle Supersonics back lol.
& Vanccouver!
@@georgecoumbos2511I think if Canadians had more of a presence in the NBA like the nhl, there’d be more of a push for it, but as far as I can remember, no big free agent has ever signed with Toronto, so I imagine Vancouver would be in the same boat. It’s hard to convince an American (especially one with money like a pro athlete has) to move to Canada
Give Vegas a team and DC a team since they leaving. Perfect matches the conferences
I'm writing this halfway thru and I'd say that Adam Silver is easily the best guest on this show yet
Adam, you touched on it but you could never admit it publicly. NFL has every game as a stand alone event... They are all meaningful.
NBA has diluted the basketball product so thinly that no one game has any meaning at all. Even the finals are "meh, we lost but we still have several more chances to progress".
There is no tweak to fix this utterly broken format born from overwhelming greed. There are solutions but none of them are easy or subtle.
One idea stands out to me as able satisfy all parties and keep the absurd amount of games roughly similar....
16 teams each conference play home and away against each other = 30 games each. Finals are top 8 seeded ONE GAME ONLY. Until the champions of each conference play each other and then you can have best of whatever. This is your summer league... rinse and repeat again for your winter league. 2 season per calendar year.
Every game is meaningful and there are ways to create intrigue and dynamism not available in the current format. Like... mixing the conferences between seasons. eg... top 8 from each conference in summer becomes the "american conference" in winter. Bottom eight from each conference in summer become the "National conference" in winter. This mixes up the competition in a merit based competitive way and gives lower teams a realistic chance to progress into finals in the short term.
Everyone would hate it at first until 3 or four seasons in when it all makes sense and nobody would have it any other way.
Yea, you are right in sense as a fan, but i think in terms of revenue the amount of matches lowered would actually destroy the league since this basketball league works more on frequency of matches and amount of it compared to nfl. Also, with nfl vs nba there's mor differences than just one match or so, nfl is America's sports American game but if you look at basketball it has become non american and it has too many variables compared to nfl. Again i went on a tangent but i am pretty sure nba and mlb even to a large extent survives on the basis of frequency of matches
@@reclusedoggo3513 - Thanks for your feedback. To me, I find it hypocritical for the NBA leadership to publicly applaud another sport for what they are doing right while doing the exact opposite in the sport they are making decisions about. Furthermore, they are not even looking to make adjustments or changes to improve these fundamental flaws. To cap it off, the problems come as a direct result of overwhelming greed that has backfired enormously.
The exact reasons Adam praises the NFL for is totally ignored in the NBA. A very small number of fans watche every single game their team plays in contrast to the NFL where most fans don't want to miss any of their teams games and are hungry for more so they often watch other games of interest. The numbers are overwhelming and conclusive. 202 million people Just in the US. Probably a larger number outside the US. All for ONE game. The NBA are well short of that for their whole season.
They can't say "the fans are the priority" or "its all about the fans" and then focus all their attention on maximizing revenue at the cost of fan access, fan engagement, appreciation of the product AND get away with those lies. I notice the lies every time they speak and I don't accept it as ok. Don't you?
In the coming years most people will be priced out of the product because they chase short term revenue at all costs. We have already seen this get worse by the year in all areas of life that corporation control. It is not going to get any better without pushback from the people.
Those shirts make 3 sizes... Kevin Hart, Pat McAfee and Duane Johnson
Hes right im watching from New Zealand lol
That Chris Paul trade not going thru still got me in my feelings to this day
Bring a NBA expansion team to Seattle and Las Vegas! Period we want the Seattle Supersonics back to the NBA!
Seattle Vancouver vegas Montreal
Seattle, Vegas, Pittsburgh and Montreal or Kansas City
st Louis , Baltimore , Nashville ,Hartford , Louisville ,
Big to have Adam on. Now can you guys get Goodell haha 😅
We come together as a continental, if not global, collective for the Super Bowl as intensely as we do Christmas (Am I lyin'?!).
I've been saying, for the last 20 years, it should literally be an American holiday.
It should or at least superbowl monday should be considered a holiday so we can be off 😭
That's completely the sentiment, @@DeeJayTrellz... who you gon' get to do their job, effectively, on that day, anyway, when all they're mentally preoccupied with is everything around what they're doin' for the event?!
Commish please put a team back in Vancouver 🙏🙏🙏
I wish Pittsburgh would some day get a team.
Pittsburgh has been talking about putting up big money to do research on getting a team recently
Are the Cavs or the 76ers the popular team in Pittsburgh?
@@ROG956 probably the 76ers because it’s closer and a potential NBA divisional rival
Us Vegas locals don't want teams here. Ask most locals did they want the Raiders or A's here. They'll say no
If vegas lost all the tourist money, it would be just like atlantic city
The NHL needs a Adam Silver
Gary Bettman came from NBA circles btw
Vegas already helped themselves to Oakland's football and baseball teams. Please let it be an expansion team if they get the NBA as well.
"Going to see more defense and more of an actual game." Well, I don't think in any life time will I ever see a game have an actual score over 300. Bring back the 90's All Star games.
65 game rule is great. And if i read correctly, there have only been 4 MVPs in history that won MVP plaing less than 65 games. 2 of them, due to a lockout and shortend saison. So, nothing really special there. But JJ Redick had a great point on the super-max rule..that is nonsense and needs to change..
On load managment, i quote Sam Mitchell: if you are tired, skip a shootaround or training instead of not playing. Thats how they did it back in the time.
This was amazing to hear you guys always bring that work
Im 34yrs live alone and have no tv by choice :😂😂 i stream spectrum tv on my s9 fe tablet. So yes streaming is the future.
Mexico City, Pittsburgh, Buffalo/Rochester, Seattle
& Montreal
Vancouver!!
Vegas And Seattle Deserves A Basketball 🏀 Team .
Cable is way too expensive nowadays
streaming services are not getting any cheaper
@@Edot15people are essentially paying the amount for streaming services that they would pay for basic cable.
So much greed going on in this country
We need a team in Tampa
WHY NOT MAKE THE ALLSTAR GAMES FOR RIGHT AFTER THE SEASON AND CREATE A MORE SPACED OUT NBA SCHEDULE SO PLAYERS CAN REST WHILE STILL WATCHING BASKETBALL WITHIN A SIX MONTH PERIOD