As the NBA mulls a restart, Adam Silver’s priority should be keeping his players happy Globe_Sports
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver speaks during a news conference at Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City on Oct. 23, 2019. Silver has managed to turn the NBA into a sort of socialist utopia.A couple of months after Adam Silver took over as commissioner of the NBA in 2014, the Donald Sterling mess was dumped in his lap.
Silver’s firm hand earned him a lot of trust from his new and largely Black workforce. He’s spent years building on it. “I agree with Kyrie,” Los Angeles Lakers centre Dwight Howard said in a statement. “No basketball until we get things resolved.” By Sunday evening, none of the league’s biggest names had jumped into this sub-revolt. If the LeBron Jameses and Steph Currys of the world decide to do so, then this is over.
They make a ton of money. They can give some of it away, and ask their teams to do the same. How many owners want to be seen saying “No” to writing a big cheque to Black Lives Matter right now? I haven’t asked, but this is not a guess: zero. Also, one potentially unconsidered part of Irving’s idea is duration. If this is too fraught a time to play sports, what does a future, less-fraught time look like?
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