Adam Silver

Every night we have both players and coaches absolute losing their minds over what seem to be no-brainer bad calls. And quite literally nothing happens. It gets swept under the rug no matter how much scrutiny is applied. I think that Pistons Knicks ending was really the nail in coffin considering the next day the NBA issued a release claiming officiating is too easy on offensive players. Just absolute averting any and all blame that we simply have bad officiating.

I used to praise Adam Silver for his willingness to compromise and try new things based on both player and fan feedback. But I’ve never seen the nba I’m such a disarray over an issue that Silver just seems to pretend isn’t there. At this point I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. Adam Silver is looking up at the sky and wholeheartedly saying it’s Red instead of Blue.

I understand politics and whatnot but what has to happen for him to publicly admit there’s an issue and/or do literally anything to fix it? Why are officials immune to corrective action when they are not performing at their job?

Thank you for coming to my Ted talk

Referencing the things happening around the league with Kyrie and Draymond/Poole being unaddressed by the league.

He feels teams are giving no punishments and Silver is absent/supporting it.

Your thoughts on Silvers presence recently?

David Stern, one of the four on the NBA Mt Rushmore, was renown at having a sharp, forceful hand on how the NBA was produced and marketed to the world. He would micromanage several pieces of the production to ensure that the NBA presented itself as a competent sports league, played by the best stars, and something to aspire to.

His replacement, Adam Silver, has been abysmal on this front and has steadily frittered away the league’s riches and cultural value to create the abomination that we endure today.

Please allow me to show you the painful product we have to watch on TV today thanks to Adam Silver’s apathy & incompetence…

Painfully bad technical product

1. Video feed cuts out at times, audio delayed at times. The whole production feels so amateurish for a multi-billion dollar gig.

2. For a poor example, look at this

Missing out on at least a couple of plays every game because ads were playing too long

1. “No no, pick up” (, )

2. How ESPN missed out on an entire minute of game time due to its ads () despite its half-time show being pretty much all ads ()

Swarming the screen with ads

1. (from about ads on screen)

2. We now have split-screen ads during Free throws (read , , , ), split-screen ads during inbounding the ball (), shitty deceptive ads () and fucking ads during the fucking game while watching in person.

3. And add in the steady drift of NBA players becoming NASCAR drivers. Mark my words, Adam Silver will not stop until we get to [this nightmarish future] ()

4. And fucking sports betting ads (which is gonna wreck this league in the coming years…).

Digital/Virtual Ads

1. This is the latest piece of bullshit that allows the NBA to virtually insert ads into on-court empty spaces + can do different ads for different markets.

2. Look at this ()

3. Now look at how the because it overlaps with virtual ads ( of this actually beautiful jersey that is now banned). Similarly Philly can’t wear their actually symbolic Parchment jerseys because it overlaps with virtual ads (read )

4. Virtual Ads colliding with players: When will the racism stop?! body merge into the court anytime he goes near an ad/logo.

Puke-level commentary

1. Doris Burke? Mark Jackson? Seriously? Who in their right mind thinks that Mark Jackson is part of a good commentary product in 2023?

2. Or you get the folks at Utah/Philly where they straight are having their parallel talk show and forget that there’s a game in progress? Look at where they are chatting about sticking faces in tight places when there’s actual plays happening on court. Why do teams fly in these commentators, get them great seats, all for them to ignore whatever is happening in front of them?

3. Despite his heavy-breathing and failing eyesight today, at least Marv Albert is a legend, but it’s just sad that he’s one of the better ones today. (Shout out to the folks at Charlotte Hornets who have heavily penetrated the jittery coke-addicts demographic of NBA fans)

And the NBA media market

1. Kendrick Perkins/Skip/SAS/Max is the best TV faces we could find? And why does the league even tolerate folks like Woj/Shams, who are they helping out? If Bill Simmons is one of the smarter names in a media market, you know that the media market is dumb af.

2. And lastly, games fucking never start on time (710pm start for a 7pm game is just not okay man). The game starts at tip-off, not when some the ads begin ffs.

Fuck this shit man

Context:

He expressed that desire in no uncertain terms in an interview with Sports Illustrated’s Chris Mannix published Friday.

“I do see this as something we would embrace going forward,” Silver said. “As you know I’ve been talking about it for a while. We saw this as an opportunity to institute a form of it. I’m not sure if this would be the exact format going forward. But this is something we’d like to see stay.”