#Adam Silver

With the calendar turning to 2023 and the NBA season approaching its midway point, here are our second-half predictions. If you'd been tasked with guessing the Lakers' two most likely problems heading into the season, it wouldn't have been surprising if you'd landed on the lack of perimeter shooting, and the fact that Anthony Davis was likely to…

Prepare your snack tray, basketball junkies, for Thursday's TNT doubleheader is just hours away and two intriguing games await you. First, the Boston Celtics (26-12) will face off against Luka Ravenclaw and the Dallas Mavericks (22-16) on the Mavs' home court. Next, the Los Angeles Clippers (21-18) will take on Joker and the Denver Nuggets (24-13).…

The NBA has some Christmas Day competition this year, with the NFL rolling out three games that will bleed into the Association's entire five-game slate. So let's just say it's unlikely that NBA commissioner Adam Silver sent a holiday card this year to Roger Goodell, his NFL counterpart. One thing Silver has on Sunday that Goodell doesn't: A…

For better or worse, we are in a massive period of change in the American sports world. The rollout of legal and licensed online sportsbooks on a state-by-state basis since the Supreme Court lifted the federal ban in 2018 has led to an explosion in the online betting industry. According to a recent survey from SportsbooksOnline.com, more Americans…

For an encore, Rich Strike will rest. Go ahead and enjoy the Preakness Stakes without him. Maybe he will spend Saturday in his stall watching video loops of his far-fetched Kentucky Derby triumph. The absence of an 80-1 Derby miracle worker with dubious Triple Crown prospects won't force horse racing, desperate for a fresh approach, to get serious…

For the first time since Nov. 1, Nets guard Kyrie Irving will play in an NBA game on Sunday against the Memphis Grizzlies at Barclays Center. Irving is set to return from his suspension after missing eight games after Tweeting a link to a film with anti-Semitic tropes on Oct. 27. During his absence, the Nets went 5-3, including Thursday's thrilling…

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The Brooklyn Nets have won just two of their first eight games to open the 2022-23 NBA season and have looked like a play-in team. They've also just fired Steve Nash and are facing the uproar of Kyrie Irving's recent anti-Semitic post. Zach Lowe, on his podcast, is already seeing doom that he didn't expect this early into the season: "If you are…

The Nets slapped Kyrie Irving with a 5-game suspension without pay amid the backlash of his support of an anti-Semitic movie The bad week is about to get worse for the Brooklyn Nets as they slap star player Kyrie Irving with a five-game suspension without pay over his recent anti-Semitic comments. In the same week that saw Brooklyn part ways with…

One week after he first Tweeted to promote a film with anti-Semitic tropes, the Nets have suspended Kyrie Irving. The suspension is without pay and will last "no less than five games." "I think right now his future in Brooklyn, I think it's fair to say, is unclear," ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski said on air. Want to bet on the NBA? The Nets statement…

Basketball stars are speaking out about Kyrie Irving's recent actions. Last week, the Brooklyn Nets guard tweeted to promote the movie, "Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America." The movie is known for being riddled with anti-Semitic themes and includes a quote linked to Adolph Hitler. Irving deleted the Thursday tweet on Sunday On Tuesday's NBA…

Tanking has always been a word thrown around among NBA fans on social media, there have been books written about the tanking strategy, and the NBA has even stepped in and flatted NBA Draft lottery odds and added a play-in tournament to attempt to prevent teams from "tanking." The most aggressive form of tanking was the Philadelphia 76ers who went…

LeBron James wants to own an NBA expansion franchise in Las Vegas. Every time the four-time champ drops a simple snippet mentioning the state, he reignites [the] talk of expansion that commissioner Adam Silver has tried to somewhat quell. Credit the constant fodder surrounding cities like Seattle and Las Vegas as the reason why their league…

In March 2021, the NFL signed an 11-year deal with Amazon Prime Video to give the company exclusive rights to Thursday Night Football. Is the NBA next? This mega deal with television networks is worth more than $100 billion. Of course, the multi-year deal includes Amazon, ESPN/ABC, Fox, CBS, and NBC. After the 2024-25 NBA season, the league's U.S.…

I grew up in eastern Idaho about an hour away from Yellowstone National Park. A lot of my earliest memories are related to Yellowstone in some way like the Yellowstone fires in 1988 or the constant reminder in school that Yellowstone is a supervolcano and, if it ever erupted, we'd be the next Pompei but with cows and potatoes. The most interesting…

The NBA season hasn't even started, and the Victor Wembanyama-Scoot Henderson 2023 draft sweepstakes is the hot topic. The projected top two picks in the June draft played again on Thursday with Wembanyama of the Metropolitans 92 going for 36 points, 11 rebounds and four blocks. But the Ignite's Henderson left the game after just five minutes…

Eschewing wins in the hopes of obtaining a high draft pick has long been a problem in the NBA. However, league commissioner Adam Silver may not see a tanking war as hotly-contested as the one that could occur during the 2022-23 season, with generational talents such as Victor Wembanyama and Scoot Henderson as the ultimate prizes in the upcoming…

French prospect Victor Wembanyama took part in Tuesday night's exhibition event in the Vegas suburb of Henderson, going up against another top 2023 NBA Draft prospect in that of guard Scoot Henderson. The 7-foot-4 big man impressed the scouts that were on hand inside Dollar Loan Center as his Metropolitans 92's lost to the G-League's Ignite. Seen…

A soon-to-be-published academic paper on the state of legalized sports betting in America spells out how we got here, but also - and perhaps more importantly - where the failures in the system lie. The paper, titled Legalized Sports Wagering in America, will be published in an upcoming edition of the Cardozo Law Review. It was penned by John Holden…

When the NHL was looking to expand, they turned to Las Vegas. When the NFL's Oakland Raiders were looking for a new home, they turned to Las Vegas. When the WNBA's San Antonio Stars were looking to move, they turned to Las Vegas. Las Vegas had long been in the mix when talking pro sports expansion. And in a span of five years, the decision to move…

This article is part of our NBA Team Previews series. Phoenix's offseason was filled with drama. Deandre Ayton -- seemingly against his will -- was retained by the Suns after the organization matched an offer sheet by the Pacers. Jae Crowder wants a trade and isn't coming to camp. Plus, Robert Sarver is selling the team following a one-year…

Last year, I pleaded with Bill Plaschke to stop making predictions. Now he says that the Trojans might be the nation's best team. Here are my predictions for him: Sometime during the next month, he will predict that the Trojans will win the College Football Playoff. After their first loss, he will declare that their season is effectively over. At…

NBA considered suspending Sarver for more than 1 year NEW YORK (AP) - NBA Commissioner Adam Silver says Phoenix Suns owner Robert Sarver was likely spared even stronger sanctioning by the NBA for his racist, misogynistic and hostile words and actions because of one key conclusion by investigators. The law firm that spent nearly a year digging into…

NEW YORK (AP) - Phoenix Suns owner Robert Sarver was likely spared even stronger sanctioning by the NBA for his racist, misogynistic and hostile words and actions because of one key conclusion by investigators, Commissioner Adam Silver said Wednesday. The law firm that spent nearly a year digging into the situation determined Sarver's use of slurs…

Sports are an important part of life for most people around the country and basketball specifically is a prime example. The NBA is such an exciting league to keep tabs on and serves as a home to some of the top franchises around. It is, of course, also home to notable players such as LeBron James and provides some of the best on-court action you…

In its latest release, titled "Operation Flagrant Foul," the sports documentary series " Untold " brings to the fore the 2007 NBA Betting Scandal that involved allegations of multiple NBA referees intentionally siding with certain results for personal benefits. Despite these allegations, though, it was ultimately only Tim Donaghy who was found…