When Bill Simmons of The Ringer interviewed NBA Commissioner Adam Silver at the recently completed MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference in Boston, the commissioner — approaching the five-year mark in his tenure — was surprisingly open about the things that worry him about the league.
There are some things about how the NBA conducts its business that could be handled better and Silver admits the NBA suffers from some unintended consequences springing from past decisions.
His concerns about market size are legitimate and the Brooklyn Nets, as well as the LA Clippers, fall into a hybrid category as franchises who certainly call large markets home, yet will never be the most popular or most established club in those markets.