Advancements in supersonic air travel?

Did they launch the Concorde Version 2.0 when I wasn’t looking?

Soccer is the biggest and most global sport and even they can’t figure out how to make transatlantic competition really work outside of what are basically exhibition matches.

Silver sucks

: “It’s not just bringing in potentially an NBA-type team, but also same thing you’ve seen market by market in the United States that sort of started with this LA Live complex where it’s an arena … together with retail, commercial space, residential. So it looks like a really big opportunity we’re spending time on”

So less about basketball than the commercial property opportunities. Big fucking surprise.

Anything to distract us from the Aspiration scandal I guess. How about you clean up your own messes first before trying to expand into Europe.

We will probably get NBA Euro first before we get any news on Kawhispiration.

Supersonic travel in this oil economy? LMAO

Logistics would be a nightmare.

You think playing 82 games is bad for players, now imagine trying to fight massive jetlag because you gotta play in France on a day’s rest.

Also imagine your viewing audience dipping because the game is on at 4-6 AM and you gotta figure out which network/app it’s gonna be on.

I feel like Adam got handed a relatively simple opportunity to play hero with the whole Donald Sterling situation, but has never actually been that great of a commissioner.

I’m not as down on the state of the league as some people, but I also don’t think he’s really done much to benefit the league.

Under Silver:

• The league has really struggled to promote their next generation of stars
• Games are harder to watch, especially for local fans
• Promotional ventures (like All-Star Week and NBA video games) have gone stale, with the NBA branding being mismanaged
• The league has gone really heavy into gambling
• Teams are resting players a lot more
• The CBA has been late / missed the mark multiple times. The league needed to push harder on cap smoothing early on, but then when they did react it was probably too late and too heavy-handed
• Tanking has gotten worse, that’s in spite of how bad the payoffs have often been (OKC is more an exception to the rule than the rule itself).
• Attempted rule changes have often missed their marks or been abandoned within weeks
• Officiating isn’t as bad as some would say, but officials probably have been given too much leeway. For example, the league is currently structured to encourage dissent and disrespect towards officials

And of those, I think the gambling will probably stand out as his biggest legacy. We’re only just starting to see the impacts there and it’s already pretty grim.

He keeps trying to push gimicky quick-fixes and tournaments, but the actual management of the NBA brand has been pretty lacklustre.

“NBA world champions”

It’s time guys

How about you fix tanking first, Adam?

Well then wouldn’t it be the International Basketball Association and not the National Basketball Association at that point?

Chill out with the quest for global domination and money.

Redditors can barely handle one Israeli, imagine a TLV team lmao

I don’t get what Adam Silver and the NBA want with Europe - other than money.

They are clearly working with sovereign wealth funds from the Middle East for investment in their new European franchises.

The Euroleague is a success and needs no meddling from the NBA. It is its own distinct product and fans in Europe love it.

London and Manchester are tiny markets for basketball with really limited history of success. Of course that can change in the future but it would be like when 🇺🇸 created MLS and even now MLS can’t compete with the best five leagues in Europe and has become a retirement home for superstar players from Europe who want to be well paid and play in an easier league.

So we have a European NBA League before we have GTA VI

Bro thinks Concorde is still a thing

No Adam

This really doesn’t benefit anyone, costs will skyrocket for teams and make games harder to see based on timezone and the Europeans already have a established continental and individual leagues.

What in the april fools shit is this?

Lol

Its a bad idea

They could have a champions league tournament where the winners from each country qualify

Home and away matches, group stages followed by quarter, semi and final matches

He’s lost the plot oh my god

I think it would be too much honestly. A nightmare to schedule and imagine having to stay up until or wake up at 5 in the morning to see your local team play

The supersonic air travel he’s talking about would be the Boom Overture. An aircraft that was meant to be in operation in 2023, then 2025, then 2027 and now 2030. 

It has never actually flown, and is now requiring the company, which has never produced an actual airplane, to make its own engine from scratch because the three major engine manufacturers all refused to work on the project because it is not economically viable. 

It’s supposed top speed has also been reduced from Mach 2.2 to Mach 1.7 before it’s even flown.

Anyway I’m sure the power of basketball will see the project succeed. 

So is he aware of some kind of commercial air travel that the rest of us don’t know about?

We’re reaching levels of stupidity previously thought impossible

They’re gonna take the spruce moose

Oh brother, this guy stinks!

Joke league with a joke commissioner

SuperSonics? 👀👀👀

Did you say this with a blunt in his hand on Rogan’s podcast?

The NBA is gonna fund teleportation research soon

Sonics team incoming.

This guy gets paid 10 million dollars a year to spout nonsense, be the owners lapdog and refuses to make changes that will help improve watching an NBA game. I’ll do the same thing for a 10th of his salary.

The logistics of an NBA finals series between a continental euro team and a west coast team sound like an issue - advancements in supersonic air or not

How does that even work? Just because a team has a number of EU players right doesn’t mean they’ll have them at a certain point in the future. Do teams get shuffled in or out of the division depending on the % of EU players they have on the team?

What if they allow teams to stay in Europe for an extended period, and vice versa? That’s the only way I could see this even being remotely feasible, is teams spend two to three weeks playing their Euro schedule out and having time to acclimate for jet lags and such

Even then, there’s the tiniest sliver of hope this could actually work

Might actually be somewhat possible with the right scheduling. Every team would have to do multiple month long road trips but it’s about money and this would bring money.

They can do that if they cut the games in half but we all know that ain’t happening lol

2-3-2 format is coming back to the finals baby!

Man just drop it! Focus on expansion or potentially relocating one of the shit teams, fix the tanking and fix foul baiting. The more this alien is around, the more I want him gone…

How about, hear me out, more games that start earlier than 10 pm in Europe? Maybe a league pass version that gives me those, without on demand games, for a quarter of the price.

Lol, what supersonic air travel?

And please just don’t. The USA is already ane extremely large place to spread one league over.

Silver will clearly endorse pretty much anything if more profit is the result. The league will suffer for it in the longer term.

Wemby’s people probably want to take a cut of the profits too. Interstellar space travel incoming

Another take on the failure of an idea that is NBA Europe then?

Silver gets his ideas from twitter

I think it would be better to just play some more games earlier or/and move some games with European stars to their countries to create hype.

Right now there are one early game every sunday, maybe they could up it to two early games.

There’s 82 games and playoffs, i think teams with European stars could put one of their home games in the country the star is from. Like put one or two Spurs games in France.

Giving the star player a game or two in their own country would probably create a lot of interest. Like if you are from Serbia the only way to watch Jokic is to travel outside your country. It’s kinda wild when you think about it, he plays so few games in Serbia, especially if you don’t count exhibition games.

I’m not aware of improved jet lag technology. Traveling back and forth would be brutal.

Just saying shit lmfao this would not work.

The NFL has teams play one Euro game a year and it’s always a pain in the ass for the players.

Complete bs! Traveling from east to west is already a huge burden for the players and causes fatigue. How the f the European teams will handle the brutal back and forth travels

American people are completely fucked up of their heads

I just don’t know how you maintain competitive balance with teams in different countries.

Toronto is right on the American border and has no language barrier, yet it already has had its issues attracting free agents. Living overseas just creates a ton of hassles that players would rather not deal with.

Then in reverse you’ll have Europeans that would prefer to play in their home countries. Like how do the Spurs keep Wemby if Paris has a team? In a max contract league you can’t even outspend to attract players, which is how it works in soccer.

This is destined to fail, and it’s going to be comical to watch. The NFL and NBA both seem to think this is viable and it’s just…not. Granted, the NBA version probably had a better chance of success but it both cases, you’re not getting free agents to sign overseas.

You’re pretty much setting teams up to be bottom feeders year after year.

tom dundon would only take the blazers starting 5 and no coaching staff to these games to keep travel costs low

wtf is wrong with this man

Why does Silver hate basketball so much?

Ok Adam

Globalize the NBA.

Worst idea ever

https://youtu.be/J_C6m6eP7kE?si=AAqIcJfNvhcTVmEe&t=2440
Basically him saying he heard about supersonic jets or boomsonics that might have supersonic jets by 2030

Instead of the commissioner’s cup have a champion’s league for basketball

…what?

This isn’t new, Stern was saying the same thing in like 2012.

He wasn’t keen on expansion beyond 30 other than going to Europe, which was a hot topic at the time. He said then that he would like to add an entire division in Europe within the next 20 years, since a single team wouldn’t be feasible.

Silver when he came in said that he wasn’t as keen on the idea and didn’t see it as feasible. I guess he’s changed his mind

Why don’t you worry about keeping current teams from cheating first

And then make all the games only viewable through a subscription

NBA also needs a relegation system to truly prevent tanking.

But wait until Wemby retires please. I don’t want to lose him to his home

I would much rather prefer the NBA adopt a soccer style relegation system before an entire new division based in Europe

Please don’t. Euroleague is such a superior product and fan experience compared to the NBA. It costs less, is way more exciting as a fan and the refs call it right. Leave Europe alone!

That’d be cool ngl.

Adam Silver hitting the Penny Hardaway a bit too liberally.

Simply have euro side split similar to east west. Playoffs like usual. Then the nba and ‘Eba’ play one game or a series for the international title. Peeps in the u.s forget u can take a train in London and be in Paris in 3 hrs. Paris to Barcelona is 8 ¹⁄₂. And that’s train rides. Not planes.Europe has great infrastructure for something like this to happen. Though making it make sense in terms of structure would be a pain for sure if the goal is for the two markets to compete.

Don’t understand why they won’t just expand to Canada at this point…

Start with a tournament, invite the best teams, decide the rules and a place.

This is how the NBA goes back to american MVP’s.

This clown is doing too much.

If Europe gets an nba team before Seattle because of supersonic air travel, we riot.

Oh god.

This sounds like self driving cars in just two more years, every year since 2014.

We did supersonic advancements several decades ago. But because supersonic travel also has its cons, the industry decided to shut it down.

What’s so different now?

Adam really needs to stop with the selling of outlandish ideas like he’s Elon Musk or something. Just mad the product better first before trying to add more teams.

90% of the players will have African heritage, why not make the division there instead?