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The NBA formally approved a plan to resume the 2019-20 season on Thursday, which will bring 22 teams—13 from the West and nine Eastern Conference teams—to Walt Disney World in Orlando. The teams will play eight regular-season games to determine seeding, then possibly a play-in tournament for the eighth seed. The top 16 teams in […]

The recently revealed return-to-play proposal is plenty more than most expected out of a truncated end to the 2019-20 NBA regular season. Let’s take a look at the specifics: Twenty-two teams. Eight regular-season games. A play-in tournament. Regular seven-game series playoffs. Besides minimizing the risk by leaving eight teams at home, the NBA has surely […]

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver made it clear that he is behind his NBA players who have been taking part in peaceful protests amid racial injustice. In an internal league memo obtained by Vincent Goodwill of Yahoo Sports, Adam Silver acknowledged that social injustice remains rampant in the United States. “Racism, police brutality and racial injustice […]

The NBA has explored a plethora of potential options to restart the 2019-20 season, including going straight to playoffs with the reseeding of all 16 playoff teams into one big conference-less bracket. While it’s only one of the very many scenarios the league has spitballed in hopes to crown a champion at the end of […]

NBA legend Jerry Sloan passed away at the age of 78 on Friday, and many around the league are paying their respects to the Hall of Famer. Commissioner Adam Silver released a statement on Sloan, raving about Sloan for both his 11-year playing career between the Baltimore Bullets and Chicago Bulls and his 23-year coaching […]

The 2019-20 NBA campaign could be on its way back. According to Shams Charania and Sam Amick of The Athletic, the league is shooting for a mid-July return at Disney World in Orlando. While nothing is concrete just yet, Charania and Amick note that the idea of players training in mid-June and then ultimately returning […]

Last week, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver stated that he needed a two-to-four-week window to make a decision on whether or not the NBA season would resume. As it appears, a new development has emerged involving the Houston Rockets’ home court as a potential venue for the NBA should the commissioner opt to resume the season. […]

On April 25, 2014, TMZ released the racist recordings of then-Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling. The Clippers had Game 4 of their first-round series against the Golden State Warriors coming up on Sunday in Oakland. Clippers head coach Doc Rivers recently recalled to TNT’s Ernie Johnson the hours following the release of the tapes, […]

Houston Rockets owner Tilman Fertitta fielded questions about his franchise and the NBA’s potential return from an unlikely source on Monday: President Donald Trump. During a meeting at the White House about the restaurant industry, Trump brought up Houston’s continued employment of general manager Daryl Morey after his tweet supporting the Hong Kong anti-government protests […]

The NBA is once again warming up to the idea of resuming the 2019-20 season, with just too much money at stake to give up on it. Recent talk of the salary cap expecting to take a decline in the wake of a broken partnership with China and the outbreak of the coronavirus has lit […]

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver issued a warning to the Board of Governors during a call on Tuesday, noting that if a positive coronavirus test “would shut us down, we probably shouldn’t go down this path,” according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. The league has been gaining momentum the last two days, hoping to resume the 2019-20 […]

We have just received what is perhaps the most concrete update with regards to the league’s plans of resuming the current campaign. NBA insider Shams Charania reports that league commissioner Adam Silver intends to make a decision in the near future about the status of the current season. Here is the update from Shams via […]

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver has notably been way out in front of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic that is sweeping the planet in terms of those that currently lead major North American professional sports organizations. The NBA was infamously the first professional sports league in the United States to put itself on indefinite hiatus after several […]

China’s CCTV released a statement on Tuesday saying that it is not planning on televising NBA games upon the league’s return. The relationship between the TV station and the league is clearly still fractured after Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey’s tweet in defense of the Hong Kong protests last October. As ESPN’s Brian Windhorst […]

The NBA and NBPA have reached an agreement to extend the 60-day window that preserves the league’s right to terminate the collective bargaining agreement until September, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. The uncertainty in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic has caused for the rescheduling and postponement of several key league dates. The original 60-day […]

The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has shifted the NBA schedule, forcing the 2019-20 season to possibly be played late into the fall. The NBA season has been suspended since March 11 and while there are no concrete plans as to when or even if the season will resume, Los Angeles Lakers veteran Jared Dudley reports that […]

Per ESPN Senior Insider Adrian Wojnarowski, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver spoke with members of the NBA Player’s Association on Friday and answered questions regarding the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and the status of the current season among many other topics. Among topics discussed, Silver reportedly told the NBPA members that if the NBA season would resume, […]

NBA commissioner Adam Silver revealed on a conference call with players that Utah Jazz All-Star center Rudy Gobert wasn’t the first player to get tested for the coronavirus, per Chris Haynes of Yahoo Sports. Gobert was the first player in the NBA to test positive, however, and it led to the suspension of the season […]

One part of NBA Commissioner Adam Silver’s Friday league-wide conference call with players resulted in revealing the league may not decide on whether to resume the 2019-20 season until as far as June—another month of waiting and wondering for everybody. According to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, Silver told the NBA players resuming the season, suspended since […]

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver held a league-wide conference call with NBA players on Friday, with attention-grabbing information coming out this evening like the potential for no fans allowed in arenas even next season. With the 2019-20 season on hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the NBA is stricken with a question of navigating around a […]

The NBA continues to pursue a way to resume its 2019-20 season, which has been put on hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic. According to latest intel, the cities of Las Vegas and Orlando are being considered as venues for Western and Eastern Conferences play, respectively, per Yahoo Sports’ Chris Haynes. Yahoo Sources: On conference […]

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver and Director of the NBA Players Association Michele Roberts will hold a phone call on Friday (May 8) for all players in the league, per Ramona Shelburne of ESPN. NBA Players Association Executive Director Michele Roberts and NBA commissioner Adam Silver will hold a call for all players on Friday May […]

On March 11, 2020, Adam Silver became a pioneer of sorts — the first commissioner of a major sports league to put a halt on its season. It only stands to reason he continues that precedent by taking the gut-wrenching but necessary decision to cancel the remainder of the 2019-20 NBA season. It’s now been […]

Things are slowly returning back to normal for the NBA. After the season was suspended in March, the league has allowed teams to open their practice facilities starting May 1, per ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Specifically, the NBA will allow practice facilities to open in states where the local government has eased stay-at-home orders. Wojnarowski also […]

Adam Silver now runs one of the greatest sports organizations in the world. Prior to serving as NBA commissioner, however, Silver apparently helped put together one of the most highly anticipated basketball documentaries of all time. According to Tim Reynolds of The Associated Press, Silver — who served as President of NBA Entertainment at the […]

The NBA has undergone a league-wide hiatus since March 12. And with a month of suspended animation for professional basketball in North America over with, commissioner Adam Silver is still unsure when the league can resume playing. In a conference call with media members on early Friday evening, the NBA commissioner iterated the importance of […]

The much-awaited docuseries “The Last Dance” is full of unfettered access to vital moments in the Chicago Bulls’ last championship run. Andy Thompson, uncle of Golden State Warriors shooting guard Klay Thompson, played a major role in getting that close to the players during that 1997-98 season. “The germ of the idea came from Andy,” […]

United States President Donald Trump said the NBA will be part of the 120-company list that he would talk to and engage with in terms of the possibility of reopening the economy. “We have to get our sports back,” Trump declared in a speech at the White House on Tuesday.  #NEW: Donald Trump says Jerry Jones […]

In a Twitter interview with TNT’s Ernie Johnson on Monday evening, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver expressed his desire to ideally finish the 2019-20 regular season. But he acknowledged that the league won’t be able to make an informed decision on possibly resuming basketball activities for at least another month or so. Silver admitted that “we […]

As the entire world grapples with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the NBA has stepped in to help the city most affected by the outbreak: New York City. According to a tweet from New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, the NBA has donated one million surgical masks to the city’s essential workers to help staunch the spread […]

NBA commissioner Adam Silver told those on the Donald Trump conference call that the sports leagues were the first to shut down and that they would love to lead the way in starting the economy once there was an “all clear” from public health officials, per Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN. The NBA suspended the 2019-20 […]

The NBA is reducing base salaries by 20 percent of approximately 100 of the league office’s top-earning executives, per Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN. This salary reduction includes commissioner Adam Silver and deputy commissioner Mark Tatum. NBA spokesman Mike Bass was asked by Wojnarowski to react to the news: “These are unprecedented times and, like other […]

For Boston Celtics big man Enes Kanter, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver is the MVP of the season for his decisive moves on the coronavirus. Kanter spoke with NBC Sports Boston’s Chris Forsberg on the latest edition of “The Enes Kanter Show” where they discussed how the coronavirus has affected the NBA. He lauded Silver’s quick […]

How did the Los Angeles Clippers go from one of the worst organizations to the home of Kawhi Leonard, Paul George and a title contender before the suspension of the 2019-20 NBA season? It all started with a recording between former Clippers owner Donald Sterling and a mistress almost six years ago. After over 30 […]

NBA commissioner Adam Silver says he’s not surprised more people in the league are testing positive for COVID-19. Since Utah Jazz All-Star center Rudy Gobert became the first member of the NBA population to test positive for COVID-19, 13 more people within the NBA community have tested positive. Via Tim Reynolds of the Associated Press: […]

NBA commissioner Adam Silver says it’s “too soon to tell” what the economic impact is going to be due to the NBA’s suspended season. The NBA suspended play last week after Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert tested positive for the coronavirus. Although owners are hopeful of resuming the season in the summer, it’s unclear if […]

Boston Celtics guard Marcus Smart announced he has tested positive for the COVID-19 coronavirus, while other members of the Celtics organization are awaiting test results, according to Jay King of The Athletic. The Celtics are still waiting on some tests, according to sources. There’s still a possibility Marcus Smart isn’t the only person in the […]

Beyond possibly losing money, NBA commissioner Adam Silver says there are other things at risk for NBA players if the season doesn’t resume. Silver says the aging process is something which NBA players can’t beat. As they say, Father Time is undefeated: “I have heard from a lot of our players … they’re going stir-crazy, […]

During his interview with ESPN’s Rachel Nichols, NBA commissioner Adam Silver admitted the current coronavirus pandemic could shift the NBA calendar permanently. Silver did not write off the possibility of moving the NBA’s start date to around Christmas since if this season does resume, it will go deep into the summer. As transcribed by Kyle […]