Whether it was imposing a lifetime ban on former Los Angeles Clippers’ owner Donald Sterling for making racist comments, pulling the NBA All-Star game out of North Carolina due to the state’s transgender bathroom laws or being the commissioner of the first major sports league in the U.S. to hire a full-time female assistant coach in Becky Hammon, Adam Silver has been a model of a modern, progressive sports commissioner.
But beyond his progressive social stances, Silver has also been an innovator when it comes to the business of sports. Under his watch, the NBA became the first of the four major U.