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

11 Years Ago - Adam Silver Discusses Bringing in Sports Gambling If it's gonna go on Let's make it transparent Let's bring it into the sunlight so to speak and let's regulate it the same way we do other industries I'm not an advocate of sports gambling I'm trying to being a realist

Adam Silver 10 Years Ago Sports betting is this enormous underground business 400 billion business in the US alone We know it's gonna happen Bring it into the light and regulate it By the way We need money for our infrastructure It's a good place to get it from sports betting

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 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

Adam Silver I think that in terms of Steve's Ballmer statement I'd say putting aside the precise words he chose to use Most importantly he indicated a willingness to accept the league's decision in this case and the accompanying sanctions so that's initially what I was most focused on

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