Silver also weighed in on load management, regional sports networks and the league’s CBA during a news conference in Salt Lake City.
The NBA decided to pull the 2017 All-Star Game out of Charlotte over anti-transgender legislation in North Carolina, but never considered that option in Utah even amid the passage of a controversial transgender youth sports bill last year.Cox said the game’s status was never in question because the NBA was trying to get out of the business of taking hardline stances on certain hot-button issues.
Much of Silver’s comments focused on the trend around the NBA of its star players playing less often,Silver said that it wasn’t as much of an issue as some thought, because fans vote with their wallets — the NBA’s record-setting attendance and revenues showed that fans weren’t too concerned. Nor did the league consider reducing the number of games in a season a viable solution to the problem.
still negotiating their TV deal after their contract with AT&T SportsNet runs out at the end of this season“Short term, I’m not all that concerned. ... If they were to indeed, you know, file for bankruptcy, there won’t be that much of the regular season left. For that period of time, we will have in place arrangements, if necessary, to continue to distribute those games to fans.
Every city and state he, players, coaches, trainers, and agents visit will have some political view or issue that he or they may or may not agree with but they are not visiting any of them on social justice missions. It's a basketball program created to make money. Nothing more.
“Leftist media tries to embarrass Utah”
Load management is important! Glad to see this get weighed in on