Silver There's no one out there saying 'oh this is just business as usual in the NBA' People are in fact suggesting this is highly aberrant behavior which is why in response to a podcast and some additional media reports we brought in the big guns on the investigation

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

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

Zach Lowe on Sam Presti defending SGA by blaming social media What social media How about the coaches of half the NBA teams Hes trying to make it sound like its just these lunatics on SM and poor Shai has all these people attacking him Its people in the league head coaches on the record

Bill Simmons Pod Simmons on Kawhi situation I'm really shocked by this Was Adam Silver on vacation last week where was he Poorly handled House Eat a d

Adam Silver on the Kawhi Leonard trade and investigation Im hopeful that it will wrap up this summer The league did not pause the trade The parties to the trade made a decision not to go forward given that the investigation remained open The investigation needs to run its course

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