ATL - Wemby dominates, Billups arrested in gambling probe

[BroncoBuck]

Adam Silver is the **** woooooorst.

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Adam Silver was asked about the rising cost to watch a season of NBA games as a fan of a particular team, considering all the games on either cable or streaming services. He said that there a bunch of games that will go on free, broadcast TV, and that fans can also consume the league in other ways besides watching games, noting that the NBA is a highlight league.

How hard would it be for the owners to eat the cost of having just one game a week on broadcast television or simulcast on YouTube? The RSN’s aren’t going to shy away from their lucrative contracts because of one game a week.

That’s ~24-25 out of 82 games not counting the playoffs, and possibly less if a game is already the NBC/ABC broadcast.

A few years ago there was an article about the Bally broadcasts to the Milwaukee market averaging like 20,000 viewers, and that’s when we were the best team in the league.

[Baddy Chuck]

The league addressing the important issues

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The Michael Redd rule.

[skbucks1985]

Adam Silver is the **** woooooorst.

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Adam Silver was asked about the rising cost to watch a season of NBA games as a fan of a particular team, considering all the games on either cable or streaming services. He said that there a bunch of games that will go on free, broadcast TV, and that fans can also consume the league in other ways besides watching games, noting that the NBA is a highlight league.

What this quote tells me and I believed it to be the case before I saw this but I feel even more strongly about it now is that we are about to be in year 1 of the NBA's new 11 year TV/streaming contract and that Adam Silver will retire at some point during this contract.

The NBA has seen a significant overall viewership drop during his tenure but that drop has been largely meaningless because it hasn't redounded to the detriment of the league in its TV contracts. I think at some point over the next decade there's going to be a realization that the NBA is an overvalued media property and we see a fairly significant drop in their next contract. But Silver's going to be gone by that point and the next person is the one who is going to shoulder the blame for that.

[blazza18]

I thought they tweaked that rule last season

[Ron Swanson]

Imagine completely brushing off legitimate fan concerns about sky-rocketing streaming costs and how the league is pricing out the average fan while also echoing "let them eat cake" vibes. Silver is such a tone deaf moron.

[BroncoBuck]

Imagine completely brushing off legitimate fan concerns about sky-rocketing streaming costs and how the league is pricing out the average fan while also echoing "let them eat cake" vibes. Silver is such a tone deaf moron.

Don’t worry, we’re getting a new All Star Game format to follow up the excitement of the Hulu Emirates Starry NBA In Season Tournament brought to you by FanDuel only on TNT and ESPN, you figure it out!

[FlagsFlyForever]

The league addressing the important issues

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This is a great change and hopefully it's retroactive. Now the NFL needs to stop counting spikes as pass attempts and kneel downs as rush attempts.

[BroncoBuck]

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Plausible deniability gone, but I’m sure Silver is going to give them the lightest slap on the wrist at this point. The irony of old Skeletor not having a back bone.

[Plossum]

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Plausible deniability gone, but I’m sure Silver is going to give them the lightest slap on the wrist at this point. The irony of old Skeletor not having a back bone.

Maybe Ballmer really is that stupid

[blazza18]

There’s your smoking gun. Unbelievable reporting from Pablo and his team.

[braindazer]

Could you imagine if that was the Bucks that tried pulling that fast one ?

[ReasonablySober]

Just incredible reporting.

[Matches Malone]

Could you imagine if that was the Bucks that tried pulling that fast one ?

Silver would probably make them move to Seattle because he hates small markets.

[paulpressey25]

Pablo is just diabolical. He lured Ballmer into the Ramona interview trap. And then drops the hammer.

Strip him of ownership. That would be the penalty that would hurt the most.

[FrieAaron]

Coming up with some other explanation than the obvious was already stretching credulity to it's limit. It's just straight up impossible now.

[BUCKnation]

Episode also shows why it was so easy for Pablo to get so many witnesses willing to say something. They were putting this no show kawhi deal over employee payroll.

[MoreTrife]

See Silver's comments?
"While acknowledging that he has “very broad powers” to punish the Clippers, Ballmer and Leonard if the league determines that the franchise defied NBA rules and circumvented the salary cap, Silver told reporters after a board of governors meeting Wednesday that he would be “reluctant to act” without substantial proof."

Nothing is going to happen. **** Silver.

[raferfenix]

It’s not load management it’s extortion:

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[emunney]

Should be clear that if the NBA investigation doesn't turn up more than Torre has, it's because they don't want it to.

[BroncoBuck]

Should be clear that if the NBA investigation doesn't turn up more than Torre has, it's because they don't want it to.

Onion headline “Internal Investigation Finds No Wrongdoing”