[Pardon My Take] Adam Silver confirms the Finals logo and trophy on courts is returning and will be painted, no decals
This ghoul is going to sneak the draftkings logo on the trophy
Painted, not decal of course
Can I get +200 on the DraftKings logo being a decal while the Larry O’Brien is painted?
Virtual draft kings logos it is
Larry O’Brien trophy presented to you by DraftKings
So easy to just rub off
Smart, would stop the players from trying to steal them.
You’re joking but he literally might lol.
bro’s finna get the draftkings logo tattooed on his forehead at this point
“trade” on kalshi or polymarket over which gambling logo will be on the trophy
It also feels like he completely missed the point of what people were actually complaining about last year, which is that ESPN’s production as a whole made the finals feel no bigger than regular season games.
I don’t know why but ghoul is literally the perfect description for Silver
Best vampire to ever serve as NBA commissioner.
The answer to the question “what if Jeffrey Tambor was anorexic”
Anyone who hates Silver never lived through Emperor David Stern. Dude was basically Vince McMahon. Silver is the best commissioner in pro sports.
The best is probably Goddell, which is absolutely crazy
This is false. The best is Silver and it’s not even particularly close.
Is your last name Silver? You are all over these comments taking shit very personally for some reason.
Goodell is, objectively, the best commissioner in sports.
You’re confused little one. I made a comment and then replied to the few confused children who responded to me. Goodell is not objectively the best commissioner in sports. Even making subjective argument would be difficult… especially for you. Silver proved he’s the best commissioner in sports and Goodell ain’t even number 2. Now back to the kids table. We’re done here. Notifications turned off.
Holy shit you sound like such a loser lmao
Lmao “little one”
This guy legitimately is Silver’s throwaway account. I don’t think it’s possible for some rando to be this big of a Silver stan. It’s unhinged.
It’s a normal hinge, find a new slant
This is a terrible take lol. The NBA is probably the most underperforming of the big 4 compared to their market positioning.
All you’re proving is you can’t read financial data. At this rate I bet you can’t even define the big 4 properly.
You don’t even understand how wrong you are.
First of all, the fact that NBA team valuations have grown does not make Adam Silver the best major sports league commissioner. This isn’t even a matter of opinion either;
First, and most importantly, growing valuations is only in the best interests of the owners. You don’t and will never own a portion of a major league franchise. Unless you have some of those BS Packers shares, or the publicly traded braves.
So you are just wrong to say that he’s somehow objectively the best based on that alone, when for 99.99999999% of people that’s a completely meaningless statistic.
Could you say that he’s been the best for owners based on valuation growth? Maybe, but for two reasons again internal growth rates are not really meaningful.
First of all, you’re comparing him to other commissioners, so do you know that the NBA’s grown valuations at a higher rate than the other leagues? You don’t.
Second and also very meaningfully, he has ceded massive amounts of control to the players and networks in chasing these valuations.
Third, on a gross basis it’s not like the NBA is the biggest league in the world or even NA. NFL is still much bigger on a valuation, revenue and viewership basis.
I have worked on major financial consulting engagements for major four sports teams including team valuations and player compensation, both of which I was one of the lead analysts on. Not to mention probably a half dozen other sports finance related engagements including stadium negotiations and other topics.
So don’t tell me I don’t know how to read financial data, because while you may know how to read it you have absolutely no idea how to interpret it.
crickets
I give Silver props for how he handled Covid and the introduction of the Play-In Tournament. He’s fumbled sports gambling so hard that it’s tarnishing the league.
David Stern was an OG and a don, the nba also saw unprecedented heights with him in charge. Can’t say the same for this dweeb
That’s nonsense. Any accomplishment Stern did has been overshadowed by the success the league has had under Silver. The modernization of the league, the incredible valuation jumps, the cleansing of Donald Sterling and other bad owners. Becoming the second most popular sport in the world. All on Silver’s watch. All Stern did was cover for bad owners, over punish players, and force players to wear suits. Nothing Don about that. All you’re proving is you don’t know what you’re talking about. We are done here. Reply notifications shut off.
lmao you had this ready to go and ready to hit send. Things that didnt exist under Stern:
Load Management/Apathy to regular season
Lower TV Ratings across the board including regular-season, All-Star, and Finals viewership
Tanking and competitive integrity
product quality in terms of defensive play and play leaning towards the offensive side of the ball.
you blow Silver for forcing out Donald Sterling and rightfully so but, Aspirations ring a bell? The SAME franchise no less. You must not have been paying attention to that one. Donald Sterling is gone, rejoice.
and Basketball isnt the second most popular sport in the world, its according World Atlas, its Cricket. Basketball comes in at 7.
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/what-are-the-most-popular-sports-in-the-world.html
so despite your best efforts to be a pretentious condescending blowhard, you lose. The internet and the world would be better off without jagoffs like you. It’s a shame you took your internet trophy and had a parade while turning your notifications off, you wont be seeing this. I see you mentioned Vinnie Mac up above, you’re about the same quality of human that deserves to have a dump taken on their head.
Ah why didn’t Stern modernize the league, was he stupid?
Small markets had NO CHANCE IN HELL
Fuck that douche turtle
This is Count Stern erasure and I won’t stand for it.
Nah. Stern was more like Emperor Palpatine. Pulled strings behind the scenes and absolutely ruthless in person.
Does the bare minimum for fans while maximizing profits, I think most fans underestimate the lasting damage he’s doing to the NBA product
Nosferatu knows ball
I’d wager that he is
Brother is a thin man from Xcom
You can always count on him to do the right thing, after he’s exhausted every other option.
The Adventures of the Bailey School Kids: Vampires Don’t Run a League
He looks like Pinky from Pinky and the Brain
FOR LIFE
Cool it.
Nosferatu doing a good deed
Finally stopped flicking the light switch on and off
If that man had any acting ability in his bag, he could have easily became a Hollywood star that made it big playing villain roles in horror movies
He never does a good deed on his own. Only after enough backlash. Need a commissioner that actually loves the game right now
He’s happy to pick up some easy cred for something like this cause they’ll never listen to the fans on betting, evil owners, or anything else that affects their bottom line
Comishferatu
Good deed? Or just deciding the thing that already worked didnt need to be fixed?
Silveratu
Why do they always go to these barstool guys to interview
Those dinky ass superimposed trophies on the court last year were the sorriest thing I’ve seen in pro sports. Like they used ms paint and copy pasted them on there.
You’re being generous.
seriously. Silver acting like the only people who had a problem with the digital logos were the people in the arena is a joke. looked bush league.
The sorriest aesthetic are the NBA cup courts and it’s not even close
Nah, I disagree. You might not like them, but at least there’s actual effort put forth in those. Again, you can call them ugly or whatever and that’s fine, but I don’t think ‘sorry’ is the right word here.
nah they’re sorry af lol. They could’ve been so dope with submissions from local artists or something, instead they just got out the bucket from MSPaint and called it a day
He also announced theyre renaming the finals trophy to the DraftKingsKup
Finals logo and trophy on courts is returning and will be painted! (Also the entire court will showcase a 48 min non-skippable Emirates tourism ad)
Congratulations to Mr Silver to returning to what was already done well after ruining it trying to save what must have been a few thousand dollars switching to decals
Tbf they stopped doing this while stern was still commissioner
And they used them for like 3 years, I think?
tbf Silver was in Stern ear at the end.
It was stern who took it away Einstein. and it was over player safety (allegedly) 🤦♂️
People complain about anything
Like y’all right now?
Wow you’re a real genius for pointing that out, top tier redditing as always
First someone called me Einstein, now a genius, wow you’re all so nice! And definitely aren’t whiny complainers
I like how you try to sarcastically blame someone for something they didn’t even do, and then get mad when people use the same sarcasm to call you dumb……
how you gonna be upset over the very same thing you just tried to do lol
He’s been commissioner since 2014 when they stopped doing decals how is this not his fault?
It was ridiculous either way and we know player safety was a cop out
I agrees
And yet your dumbass was still wrong on who made the change
God y’all are really touchy about this, you’re right I’m sorry great job to commissioner silver for only taking 12 years to come up with using paint
r/confidentlyincorrect
Weird time to use that sub
Same tactics that 2K uses for NBA 2K. They take away features and return them years later as a “introducing our newest innovation!”
2K: The best we can do is more advertisements in the useless neighborhood hub that could easily go back to just being menus again
“Remember the thing everyone loved that we took away and it backfired? Well, it’s back!”
Sounds like most companies nowadays.
i mean nothing wrong with experimenting. it’s a business, they tried new things, got bad reception, and now reverting back to what works.
God he is hard to look at
mfs want the NBA commissioner to be handsome
I don’t want him to be handsome, I don’t really want to look at him at all
Need a vtuber persona for Adam Silver, maybe a peanut
How about a blue haired anime girl?
He should not be difficult to look at, but he is
Judge not a man by his face or their clothes.
Go a little deeper, judge a man by their underwear.
My guy is wearing SKIMS, those are some high quality ass underwear
yeah that was the joke i was going for, but botched the finish
Nah that’s my bad. I didn’t realize. I just did the “explains the joke” thing. Sorry!
He’s a Hollywood socialite, give him a break
He would burst into flames in the California sun. He is 100% New Yorker.
George Clooney is rumored to be the next commissioner
Did they need to zoom in that close?
He hasnt aged a day though
Gotta wonder why, and also why people looking suspiciously like him are shown in artwork from 15th century Transylvania
I can’t help but admire how far he’s gotten in life while looking like a demon wearing human skin.
I’m Jewish, and even I think he truly looks like an antisemitic caricature sometimes.
Fighting Indiana Jones to find the Ark of the Covenant will do that to a fella.
Wait till you find out the brand of underwear he has on
Did you also get mad when the green M&M wasn’t sexy anymore
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Did he actually do it?
What are you on about
Adam Silver looks like no human or human stereotype he looks like a literal alien.
David Stern was a grump but he looked like a grump you’d see in every walk of life
So where does the Saudi investment fund and draft kings logos go then???
The Saudi investment fund is temporarily suspended until the Hormuz Strait reconstruction project is complete.
“With the synergy the logo paint brings to the hardwood, linking two iconic duos- paint and wood, we have the opportunity to honor our Logo on the biggest stage. I’m told on the Prediction markets, there is an opportunity to maximize your profit potential by correctly identifying the Hexadecimal RGB color code we will use for the Finals logo. I would urge our NBA fans to only place bets with our official partner, Draftkings. Bleep blorp my spaceship awaits you dorks. Silver out.”- Adam SilverX1Xzeqork
Dude looks so evil
Finally
Wouldn’t it be obvious the decals would be slippery.
Did no one think to test it and keep the billion dollar athletes safe?
Same thing with some of the nba cup courts. Absolutely astonishing that no one actually tested them before hand to see if they were slippery.
“We did two things that never should have been done and spent a bunch of money that didn’t need to be spent and now we are going back to doing what actually worked”
- Every MBA moron ever.
He looks like a silicone dildo grew a face. So weirdly unnatural and dead eyed
Just don’t paint the court grey and give the teams the wrong color jerseys.. So dumb
Crazy it took trial and error for him to get there. I cant with this guy
Wow, he figured out what everyone already knew worked perfectly in 1991. What a genius.
What are you talking about? The Larry O’Brien trophy was only on the court from 2005-2009.
Using actual paint
Pretty sure those were always decals.
The closeup on Silver is brutal. Maybe zoom out a bit?
This guy looks less and less like a human everytime I see him.
Dude looks off as fuck. Not sure why it is
My buddy once told me that Adam Silver is the perfect example of what people mean when they call someone a “lizard person.”
Glad to see him focusing on the important things as opposed to sports betting terrible refs, flopping, and load management.
Is it a corporate thing to not have any facial hair? I think there should be an exception for bald guys
He should at least grab a headband from Caruso
I will never understand Reddit’s obsession with people’s hair or facial hair
Literally who cares?
Who would’ve thought that not changing what’s not broken actually works
Dude thinks he’s satiating the NBA fanbase by doing this one thing lol
NBA Twitter bullying works
Why not have the painted on playoff logos on the court than? I know it says it on the side
That’ll take another ten years…
I honestly believe Pardon My Take made this change happen. They have been pushing this for years
Never should have take it away in the first place.
The real problems with the NBA finally being addresssed
The players were trying to steal my decals!
The safety hazard thing went out the window when they could make NBA cup floors look like a tie dye shirt
Perfect way to address tanking issues just like fans have been asking for!
He’s the worst commissioner is history sports. All he does is kiss the player’s @$$
Crook
Shit gonna look hard on the Moda center floor 100%
I think what really was the tipping point is they were willing to go full hog making special courts for their in season oil money sports gambling fueled cup tournament and yet the Finals ended up having the every day courts used.
Once they did that there was no way to spin it away from just making themselves look cheap. If you can paint it for the tournament your latest winning team, who hasn’t won anything in over 50 years couldn’t be assed to hang a banner for, you can’t do it for the Finals? To what, save a few thousand bucks in floor tiles?
Just makes the whole league look like the new Blazers owner. Backed themselves into a corner with this one, fortunately they did the right thing instead of trying to weasel their way out of it.
Why does he have a sex doll complexion. His face looks so unnatural
Blazers Magic about to be special
Interview with the Vampire
nature is healing
shi will have so much aura in capital one arena in 2029
Commissioner Orlok.
This guy has no fucking soul. A perfect example of a corporate lackey.
Adam: Fans said “Wheres the branding”? Maury: “The lie detector determined that was a lie”.
Huh? Fans complained because there was nothing on the court saying it was the NBA Finals, that’s why they started projecting a tiny Larry O’Brien trophy midway through the series.
We’re blasting rockets in to outer space but I’m supposed to be impressed you can paint a floor with months of time to plan it in advance?
Only took us bullying him to get this
What confuses me is how they go all in on the IST with new courts, but for playoffs and finals we get nothing. Shit is weird. The league clearly knows how to make games unique and feel different. But refuse to do it for their most important games
What the fuck took them so long?
Hey yall. I genuinely want to know the hate for Adam Silver. Can’t till if it’s just a meme or he’s genuinely a bad commissioner. I guess I’m a bit out of the loop
Such a helpful response lol
It’s really not bait dude. What’s the benefit for me baiting you? That’s dumb lol. Yes I can ask Chat why he’s hated but I’d rather get different inputs from other people.
All I know is that he’s made the league softer and he’s welcomed more of a gambling culture. Kinda just wanted to know what else I was missing. But I forgot how uptight Reddit can be sometimes smh.
It’s sad how novel they are making it seem that they’re doing the smartest thing by painting it.
And yeah if I’m paying Finals prices I want to see that shit, no virtual nonsense
Man, he looks fucked up.
Yes, the people in the arena said “Where’s the branding?”
He looks like one of the zombies from I Am Legend
adam silver looks like beerus
I want Adam Silver to actually be the one that paints each logo
How about you address the refs you cunt!
I hate his reptilian shapeshifter face so much
This isn’t even new news? Why do yall repost the same shit, even during the best time of the year for the league, the playoffs
this muthafucka gotta be the ugliest billionaire in human history.
Dumbo bout to fly away 😆 🤣 😂
Yeah it was the people in the arena not seeing the logo, that’s why they’re not doing the superimposed logos, and not because it looked like cheap shit
Innovation at its finest at the NBA 😉
Good lord that thumb nail is scary
Someone is going to bust their ass
Bat Boy lives!
If it ain’t broke Adam…
Ok now what are you going to do about the clippers? Also what about the owner of the grizzleys. Also the rampant betting problem. OK I guess this is more important silver
Why are we still even messing around with these decals? We knew about slippery decals 20 years ago as high school players, how is the NBA still fucking around with this?
“Yo Adam, just distract them with the on court Finals logo.” - Ballmer
I always say “where’s the branding?”
And the Kawhi Aspiration thing?
to shreds, you say?
He has some ups and downs but the play in season tournament is great, the play in hits like crack and this will be a very nice nostalgia to add again in the finals.