I get a little nervous when people talk about sending a message Sometimes it implies that you may not be fair to that individual player We want to portray a positive image in terms of our players in this league - Adam Silver on Ja Morant

Stephen A Smith You and I were both talking to commissioner Adam Silver before the game and he's highlighting like Look we know how this goes But damn it that happens every NBA Finals

Ja Morant about what he learned from his new teammates They ragebait a lot They ragebait a lot for sure

Adam Silver on the NBA Second Apron's Consequences for Teams It's certainly not an unintended consequence the purpose of the system is ultimately to create competition throughout the league And from that standpoint I think the system's working incredibly well

Sam Presti It used 'you get up there you talk about your own team' Now everyone gets up there and they talk about the officials and they discredit the other team on SGA Hes playing against 6 people Hes got 5 defenders and the 6th defender is social media

Adam Silver Admits NBA Has Remarkably Little Control Over Gambling Wants Federal Czar With Subpoena Power To Oversee The League I've said before the unders are the most problematic right thing in our league We need to make players understand how draconian the discipline will be

Ja Morant says his bad guy image is a misconception Ive done what Ive done in the past but its been addressed and handled already I dont see why years later thats still the topic when nothings happened since