As he surveyed the shiny new basketball court at the Boys & Girls Club of East Dallas, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver took a moment to remember that sports as a way of life probably is not in the cards for the 100 young people that were gathered around him.
“There’s so much excitement around the NBA Finals,” he told the kids. “People all around the world are watching. But we come to town, there’s all this fanfare and we leave. All of that dissipates.
“But what we leave is a renovated Boys & Girls Club.