Dave DuFour with the Athletic If you're going to have rules in place and they can just be ignored then why can't the Memphis Grizzlies play with six guys on the court Why can't the Warriors add a four-point line If the rules are arbitrary then you no longer have a sport

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

The announcer Brian Sieman tells a story about how there used to be unlimited fouls in Summer League games until Channing Frye had 30 fouls in a 40-minute game one time so they had to change the rules

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

Presti on lottery reform Good short term solve but hopes NBA will eventually move away from a luck based solution Hopefully we can get to a point where we have a system that isn't tied to record entirely Said he prefers a complex predictable system to a simple unpredictable one

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

SAS Show Stephen A Smith has an issue with the Lakers signing white guys Somebody had to say it so Im saying it Your top three players are WHITE DUDES Really This aint golf This aint baseball We got a whole bunch of brothers on Team USA What yall think this is Its basketball