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Adam Silver Goes to War
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The league is on a upward trajectory ever since they neutered Espn and tnt
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We done with the 90s, 2000s, 2010s...
It was time to turn the page on that shyt
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Silver deserves a medal for packing up Inside the NBA 
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Not with the egregious referees
That shyt last night with the Thunder and Lakers was straight out of a comicbook
If this bald head fakkit doesn’t fix this shyt
Nobody will care once Steph, LeBron and KD retire
Besides Ant and Wemby
Ain’t no real stars in the game to me
This tells me a lot
Sure enough, the current season wasn’t a week old when the news broke: Multiple people affiliated with the NBA had been arrested by the FBI and indicted on charges related to gambling, some stemming from an illegal betting ring with Mafia ties. One is a current player, the Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier. Another is Damon Jones, a onetime player and coach, who formerly had close ties to LeBron James and was once a sort of unofficial attaché of the Los Angeles Lakers. The third is Chauncey Billups, a Hall of Fame guard who was named MVP of the 2004 Finals—his iconic No. 1 jersey hangs in the rafters of Detroit’s arena and in the closet of my oldest son—and who, until the FBI arrest, was serving as head coach of the Portland Trail Blazers. Billups is charged with colluding to cheat opponents out of millions of dollars at an illegal, mob-run poker game; meanwhile, a person fitting his exact description, “Co-Conspirator 8,” is accused of leaking insider information about Portland’s roster decisions to bettors. (Jones has pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Rozier and Billups have pleaded not guilty.)
All of this was at once shocking and not quite surprising. Rozier had been investigated by the league back in 2023, when sportsbooks recorded an unusual volume of wagers pegged to his individual performance. (That he was allowed to resume playing, only to be busted by the feds, does not inspire confidence in the NBA’s system of justice.) Another person named in one of the indictments, Jontay Porter, had already received a lifetime ban in 2024 after a league investigation found that he tipped off gamblers, took himself out of a game to help bettors, and even wagered on NBA action himself. Porter’s brother, the Brooklyn Nets star Michael Porter Jr., explained on a podcast last year that young men who come from poverty see an opportunity to do something relatively harmless—faking an injury, perhaps—that can guarantee a windfall of cash for associates. “It’s bad,” Porter Jr. said of the NBA’s betting problem, “and it’s only going to get worse.”
The gambling issue is especially tricky for Silver: He was the first commissioner of an American professional league to advocate for the mass legalization of sports betting. Given the hazards that are now manifest—moral and financial and otherwise—I asked Silver, prior to the indictments, whether the league would come to regret getting into bed with the gambling industry.
His response was tortured. Silver argued that legalized betting has made it easier to catch people engaging in illegal schemes—but he would not concede that legalized betting has invited more of those illegal schemes in the first place. He said that he stands by his push to make sports gambling universal but that he is sensitive to the societal scourge of “problematic” gambling. By way of answering the initial question, Silver finally told me: “I’m not at the point where I’m saying I regret being in favor of this, but I think we should be learning every day from the behavior we’re seeing.”
Perhaps sensing my skepticism, the commissioner added, “I don’t want to be Pollyannish. I don’t want to say, like, ‘Isn’t this wonderful that everybody’s betting on our games?’”
I found myself wishing that Silver would spare us the anguished ambivalence and speak candidly: Yes, gambling can ruin lives, and yes, it jeopardizes the legitimacy of our game, but it’s making our league and its stakeholders rich. Reports suggest that the NBA collects some $170 million annually from sportsbook partnerships. When I asked him about all of the money being made, Silver downplayed the revenue as relatively insignificant. “The greater value to us is the engagement,” he said. “If you’re able to bet on a game or some aspect of a game, you’re much more likely to watch it.”
Sure enough, the current season wasn’t a week old when the news broke: Multiple people affiliated with the NBA had been arrested by the FBI and indicted on charges related to gambling, some stemming from an illegal betting ring with Mafia ties. One is a current player, the Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier. Another is Damon Jones, a onetime player and coach, who formerly had close ties to LeBron James and was once a sort of unofficial attaché of the Los Angeles Lakers. The third is Chauncey Billups, a Hall of Fame guard who was named MVP of the 2004 Finals—his iconic No. 1 jersey hangs in the rafters of Detroit’s arena and in the closet of my oldest son—and who, until the FBI arrest, was serving as head coach of the Portland Trail Blazers. Billups is charged with colluding to cheat opponents out of millions of dollars at an illegal, mob-run poker game; meanwhile, a person fitting his exact description, “Co-Conspirator 8,” is accused of leaking insider information about Portland’s roster decisions to bettors. (Jones has pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Rozier and Billups have pleaded not guilty.)
All of this was at once shocking and not quite surprising. Rozier had been investigated by the league back in 2023, when sportsbooks recorded an unusual volume of wagers pegged to his individual performance. (That he was allowed to resume playing, only to be busted by the feds, does not inspire confidence in the NBA’s system of justice.) Another person named in one of the indictments, Jontay Porter, had already received a lifetime ban in 2024 after a league investigation found that he tipped off gamblers, took himself out of a game to help bettors, and even wagered on NBA action himself. Porter’s brother, the Brooklyn Nets star Michael Porter Jr., explained on a podcast last year that young men who come from poverty see an opportunity to do something relatively harmless—faking an injury, perhaps—that can guarantee a windfall of cash for associates. “It’s bad,” Porter Jr. said of the NBA’s betting problem, “and it’s only going to get worse.”
The gambling issue is especially tricky for Silver: He was the first commissioner of an American professional league to advocate for the mass legalization of sports betting. Given the hazards that are now manifest—moral and financial and otherwise—I asked Silver, prior to the indictments, whether the league would come to regret getting into bed with the gambling industry.
His response was tortured. Silver argued that legalized betting has made it easier to catch people engaging in illegal schemes—but he would not concede that legalized betting has invited more of those illegal schemes in the first place. He said that he stands by his push to make sports gambling universal but that he is sensitive to the societal scourge of “problematic” gambling. By way of answering the initial question, Silver finally told me: “I’m not at the point where I’m saying I regret being in favor of this, but I think we should be learning every day from the behavior we’re seeing.”
Perhaps sensing my skepticism, the commissioner added, “I don’t want to be Pollyannish. I don’t want to say, like, ‘Isn’t this wonderful that everybody’s betting on our games?’”
I found myself wishing that Silver would spare us the anguished ambivalence and speak candidly: Yes, gambling can ruin lives, and yes, it jeopardizes the legitimacy of our game, but it’s making our league and its stakeholders rich. Reports suggest that the NBA collects some $170 million annually from sportsbook partnerships. When I asked him about all of the money being made, Silver downplayed the revenue as relatively insignificant. “The greater value to us is the engagement,” he said. “If you’re able to bet on a game or some aspect of a game, you’re much more likely to watch it.”
After reading the article it confirmed what I’ve always thought about Silver: he’s cowardly, deceptive, reactive, and not particularly strategic.
He’s a nepo baby who got the job because his dad knew Stern, and Stern made him assistant immediately
take from that what you will.
Silver has fooled the players into thinking he was on their side by kissing the ass of Lebron and CP3, not realizing that he has been working on behalf of the owners to eliminate American players in favor of cheaper (and less difficult) foreign born talent.
Silver and the owners are also working to eliminate the NBA middle class salary so it’ll be only a few high salary guys on a team and the rest will be cheap contracts. Just like Trump
The next CBA will be a reckoning since the owners feel they lost big last time.
He has done nothing to grow the game stateside and that is very intentional.
He’s a nepo baby who got the job because his dad knew Stern, and Stern made him assistant immediately
take from that what you will.Silver has fooled the players into thinking he was on their side by kissing the ass of Lebron and CP3, not realizing that he has been working on behalf of the owners to eliminate American players in favor of cheaper (and less difficult) foreign born talent.
Silver and the owners are also working to eliminate the NBA middle class salary so it’ll be only a few high salary guys on a team and the rest will be cheap contracts. Just like Trump
The next CBA will be a reckoning since the owners feel they lost big last time.He has done nothing to grow the game stateside and that is very intentional.
JesusFOREVER
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This post needs to be framedAfter reading the article it confirmed what I’ve always thought about Silver: he’s cowardly, deceptive, reactive, and not particularly strategic.
He’s a nepo baby who got the job because his dad knew Stern, and Stern made him assistant immediately
Silver has fooled the players into thinking he was on their side by kissing the ass of Lebron and CP3, not realizing that he has been working on behalf of the owners to eliminate American players in favor of cheaper (and less difficult) foreign born talent.
Silver and the owners are also working to eliminate the NBA middle class salary so it’ll be only a few high salary guys on a team and the rest will be cheap contracts. Just like Trump
He has done nothing to grow the game stateside and that is very intentional.
I've said this before,
The only way to stop this flopping shyt is through extremely hard fouls delivered CONSISTENTLY.
If people gonna get called for fouls from flopping, make these nikkas feel that shyt.
There ain't mo reason why Chet shouldn't have BROKEN RIBS by the end of this round. SGA should have a dislocated shoulder.
Gotta go back to the ways of the old 80s Pistons, but Nikkas are just too soft.
Bronny should get more play just off the strength of 6 goon fouls a game.
The only way to stop this flopping shyt is through extremely hard fouls delivered CONSISTENTLY.
If people gonna get called for fouls from flopping, make these nikkas feel that shyt.
There ain't mo reason why Chet shouldn't have BROKEN RIBS by the end of this round. SGA should have a dislocated shoulder.
Gotta go back to the ways of the old 80s Pistons, but Nikkas are just too soft.
Bronny should get more play just off the strength of 6 goon fouls a game.
Koapa
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Adam Silver has made some good moves but the bad moves have been too glaring. I gave him sports commissioner of the year for how he handled the sudden stop in March 2020 due to Covid. That was brilliant how his leadership navigated that mess.
Gambling, load management, and officiating are killing the NBA.
Gambling in my opinion is an problem for all American sports. MLB suspended two pretty good pitchers for this season for gambling. They both have been indicted. There were some plays this past NFL season that was highlighted on Twitter that could've been associated with gambling. Adam Silver as the leader has failed to properly address gambling.
Load management is the ultimate spit to fans and TV contract partnerships. NBA stars are looking like straight puzzy not wanting to play. You asking fans to pay full price even when stars aren't playing for no reason.
I think it's time for Adam to retire. It's time for me leadership.
Gambling, load management, and officiating are killing the NBA.
Gambling in my opinion is an problem for all American sports. MLB suspended two pretty good pitchers for this season for gambling. They both have been indicted. There were some plays this past NFL season that was highlighted on Twitter that could've been associated with gambling. Adam Silver as the leader has failed to properly address gambling.
Load management is the ultimate spit to fans and TV contract partnerships. NBA stars are looking like straight puzzy not wanting to play. You asking fans to pay full price even when stars aren't playing for no reason.
I think it's time for Adam to retire. It's time for me leadership.