Adam Silver We have a very young audience and people we're predicting that ratings would go down because our audience wouldn't find the games since they were no longer on cable It's been the exact opposite Our fans are finding those games in record numbers

Adam Silver answers Pablo Torre's question regarding the growing concern that wealthy individuals and entities are using the approval of the NBA to purchase credibility in the eyes of the public meaning fans and whether he plans on changing anything about the due diligence process

Adam Silver We discussed ongoing negotiations with the Euro League We believe that NBA Europe would be strengthened by joining forces with the Euro League It doesn't have to happen but I think we would all be better off as a unified front in Europe in terms of the potential investors

McMenamin on why a 3 PM game for Opening Night they're like we could sense the excitement for the NBA right now So let's experiment with this thing They talked with executives at NBC and it was kind of a joint decision that this is something we can turn into a celebration of the game

Adam Silver I would see it as a failure if we did not keep the team in Portland We need a state of the art arena By any objective measure the current building there in the bottom measure of any arena in the league

Brian Windhorst There's a lot of people that made a lot of assumptions about Adam Silver along the way This is as big of a punishment has ever been doled out in the NBA He has been presumed to be soft on crime to a certain certain extend That's not something you can say today

Tony Kornheiser You went on this show a million times and you said they're not going to touch Steve Ballmer Well they touched him He's done Two weeks ago there was an ESPN report that was all over this network that the league found nothing