PARIS — Before the first game between the San Antonio Spurs and Indiana Pacers on Thursday at the Accor Arena, the league scheduled its annual commissioner's news conference, a tradition that allows for questions raised by American and international media members to NBA commissioner Adam Silver.
The affair is fairly low-key, with questions often relating to the game at hand or the NBA's presence in Europe.
For the most part, that was the case again this year. The notable exception, however, was Silver's outright aggressive approach to European expansion, which he for years has eloquently danced around.