In comments to Phoenix Suns employees before the team's season-opening win over the Dallas Mavericks, NBA commissioner Adam Silver apologized multiple times on behalf of the league office for enduring years of workplace misconduct under Suns majority owner Robert Sarver, according to sources who were present.
"I'm incredibly empathetic to what many of you have lived through," Silver said to a group of hundreds of employees, including some team executives and the team's interim governor, Sam Garvin, who all gathered in the lower bowl of the team's arena hours before the game.
During a nearly hour-long address, Silver, sitting on a stool and holding a microphone, added, in part, "To the extent that you feel let down by the league, I apologize.