Adam Silver sucks
Listening to him spout talking points pre-game and pretty much everything he says is a joke. Trump a huge Knicks fan, it’s fine that the fans are inconvenienced, tanking they’ve “fixed,” other stupid BS.
This guy STINKS.
Imagine claiming you fixed something before you can even test what you did. There are so many nuances that could happen as a result that no one has considered yet.
It makes sense that he’s a Trump fan if he’s boasting like that tbh.
Mission Accomplished
Wrong shitty President.
“Totally obliterated!” is probably more accurate because A, it didn’t do anything and B, we ended up in a worse situation.
Peace For Our Time
Even if he isn’t, it’s been disgusting to see so many business leaders sucking his dick for preferential treatment.
Anyone in a position of power/influence with shareholders is almost forced to go along with the script because this admin will blacklist entire organizations over the smallest disagreements.
It’s literally mob rule type shit and it needs to stop. These billionaires and CEOs are/have been throwing human decency/morals out the window to lick the orange taint.
Hes a fan of anything the league or any of its owners do, starting the second they decide to do it.
The tanking talk is just there to distract from the gambling talk.
Tip of the gambling epidemic.
And the Clippers shit.
But the clippers are always shit
The tanking fix is being done for gambling.
That part, the aspiration thing is the biggest scandal this century in the nba and they trying to sweep it under the rug and that’s before we start talking about the gambling that players have already been caught pretty much shaving points 🤷🏽
Me every day as I push fixes to production
That’s why we in QA call it “claim fix.”
my man
Adam Silver fixed tanking like Trump ended wars.
President of peace type shit
He’s discouraged tanking but ruined rebuilding and many other things with those changes
Also the first attempt at fixing it made tanking even worse when the lottery odds got flattened so I fully expect this system that looks bad on paper to create even more problems
He basically has the power to pick who gets the first pick, we already knew it but Adam silver has ruined the league especially when it’s at its peak talent wise. He’s changed the rules on and off the court so that the league and Vegas can get desired outcomes
He works for the owners, he doesn’t give a fuck about anyone else
He’s also a Knicks fan
Ill never forget how disappointed he was when he saw kevin knox name on the pick 😂
Ah, interesting. You’re picking this fuckhead? You sure? Really? Ok, I guess.
I can’t tell if you guys are talking about Adam Silver or Trump.
yes
Nobody in the thread you’re replying to has mentioned trump
OP did
But the description given applies to both
Pretty much. People forget the owners literally hired him to do their bidding. He’s just the fall guy when they make unpopular decisions.
Entire COMPANIES exist to do exactly this.
cough ticketmaster cough
David stern did not work for the owners they worked for him
The hate that Silver, Goodell and Manfred get is EXACTLY what the owners want and why they pay these stooges good money.
The look on everyone’s face during his Trump rant was so funny. Outside of Draymond who was laser focused on not messing up his audition for his post retirement career.
Glad I wasnt the only one picking up on that. Dude is pining hard to join that cast immediately after retiring.
replacing sir charles with draymond green would be the biggest downgrade in sports media history
BAM! KICK TO THE NUTS!
Natural commentating motion.
Hell yeah ref, he started it, I can’t stop natural motion like that!
I think he’s more likely to take Shaq’s spot. Shaq has seemed largely disinterested in the broadcasts this year. I’ve never seen him with so low energy.
I’ve never seen a player elbow his way into a broadcast career before even retiring like this.
Lmao especially Shaq just sat there looking ahead
Shaq loves Trump though. He considers him to be a close friend
Yeah I think he dislikes Silver, but don’t underestimate how stupid Shaq is. Trump is the only presidential candidate he’s ever voted for.
That would be surprising. Didn’t he headline an event for Biden?
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/shaquille-oneal-surprised-friend-straight-161626806.html
We gotta stop being surprised when rich people support rich people policy
This is from 2005, was trump even a republican in 2005
I mean who knows but he was for sure a fucking creep still then
It’s no secret that Shaq has a taste for luxury. He once recounted buying three Rolls-Royces to prove a point to a car salesperson who doubted his ability to afford them.
Sure showed them!
“oh no, I’ve just earned a commission fatter than Shaq himself”
Exactly, it’s really just about the haves and have-nots
Shaq and trump are both stupid babies tbh. At least one was good at something.
I don’t know about that, but he definitely campaigned for Biden in 2020 and said it was the first time he’s ever voted. Not that it’s a great endorsement, considering how much of an asshole Shaq is
I just remember he said on his own podcast a couple of years ago that he has always considered Trump to be his close personal friend. Was disappointing to hear but not really surprising.
shaq been a creep for a while now lol
look at the shit he sent angel reese
No one should really be shocked that the insanely rich guy who would bully teammates is friends with Trump.
I mean, I love my friends but i probably wouldn’t vote for them to be president. Maybe one?
Shaq the basketball player or Shaq the police officer?
Shaq the doctor
Shaq the fu
Shaqtus the cactus
Shaq the genie.
Bring in Jeff Teague and the 520 crew.
I give it like 5 mins before they ask why bald head is dick riding the Cheeto.
Just bring in Paul Pierce and have a rotating escort guest spot
I was locked in on Chuck and even Shaq looked dead. Silver sucks
I was so hoping that Chuck respond to his diatribe about “division” with saying that something that we can all agree on is that Trump sucks. Chuck loves to ruffle feathers and say what others are unwilling to say. Wish he would’ve been quick in that moment to make Silver squirm the way he does for others.
He’s just awful
If fans are focused on criticizing him and not the owners who employ him and shape his every decision, then he’s done his job.
Yes, he is middle management. There is a small part of me that feels bad for him then I need to pay rent and forget all that lol
Feeling bad for man who makes tens of millions a year and hasn’t flown commercial in at least a decade?
I wouldn’t trade even the scarce number of human contacts I have in my life for money.
At what point does it become anti-social?
Lmao. Exactly.
Gary Bettman and him both learned from David Stern
I don’t think the owners told him to go on a rant about Trump
He’s protecting one of the owners (Dolan)
Yeah it wouldn’t exactly be surprising if that’s exactly what Dolan told him to do lmao
The owners are all pro-Trump billionaires that don’t care if the country is looted so long as they keep their fortunes.
Yeah. Some of trump’s biggest donors are the owners. The Adelson-Dumont family and the DeVos family were I think 2 or 3 of Trump’s largest donors in 2016 and 2020 and some of his largest in 2020 and 2024. Betsy DeVos was trump’s first education secretary (the family owns the magic).
No he hasnt. This excuse makes no sense. His job is to improve the league, not just make money. He hasnt addressed how he is stopping future gambling cases like rozier. Still no response on kawhi. Defended the new blazers owner who fired a bunch of staff.
It’s not an excuse. LEAGUE COMMISSIONERS ARE THE MOUTHPIECES FOR THE OWNERS. Not absolving blame from Silver, but this idea that he is the final say is such BS. From tanking to the Kawhi stuff the 30 owners have so much control that we the fans keep ignoring. Most of the league problems would be adjusted by now if the owners actually cared about putting an entertaining BASKETBALL product out. From team loyalty/player movement to accessibility. We keep blaming the players but not the people who actually run the league.
Still no response on kawhi
His response was giving the Clippers the Pacers’ pick to “fix tanking.”
Silvers job isn’t to make the fans happy, his job is to grow the league to make the owners richer.
The real customer base isn’t the fans, it’s the broadcasting companies and the advertisers
Good point.
Adam Silver is god fucking awful and doing permanent damage to both the sport and the league, but so are:
Jeanie was pretty chill, but she’s gone now. It’s now owned by a wall street investment banker or something.
And yet we will keep watching his product in record numbers.
I mean sure. You or I could be commissioner and they would still get record viewers
I accept your challenge, as my first duty as commissioner I am joining the wnba to the nba and allowing each former wnba team to trade for 1 player, any player they want.
Let’s see Giannis and the sparks take on Luka and the Fever
Can we send Angel Reese to the OKC Thunder so I can consolidate my hate watches?
I don’t watch the NBA personally, but Tik Tok recently decided to show me that Angel Reese is evil and Sophie Cunningham is the savior of humanity.
Adam Silver wants us to find common ground with a kid diddler
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If he looks like a soulless vampire, and talks like a soulless vampire…
“Once you’ve been to Cambodia, you’ll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands. You will never again be able to open a newspaper and read about that treacherous, prevaricating, murderous scumbag sitting down for a nice chat with Charlie Rose or attending some black-tie affair for a new glossy magazine without choking. Witness what Henry did in Cambodia – the fruits of his genius for statesmanship – and you will never understand why he’s not sitting in the dock at The Hague next to Milošević.”-Adam Silver JK, that’s Bourdain (rip) talking about Silver’s hero.
Bourdain my fucking GOAT.
Why do we lose the good ones while the trash stays to torture us.
Oh is that what the meme template originally was?
People keep acting like it’s something as simple as him being a republican when everything he stands for is wrong
Also it’s crazy to pull the “things are so divisive, let’s all come together” line when you’re talking about the guy who’s the driving force behind dividing us
exactly, dude was up there with a straight face spouting “we’re just so divided as a nation, clearly we need more Trump to bring us together” WTF R U TALKING ABOUT?!?!??!?
They were cooking with that whole floppin segment of Harden and SGA
I love how they asked the question about flopping to Silver. Also it was pretty funny when Silver said “players are taught to exaggerate fouls to get the refs attention. This summer we’re going to look at how to address this” and Draymond responds “SGA is amazing at drawing those fouls” 💀
Yeah he’s so good. The SGA highlight to a warrior was kicking Wiggins in the nuts and still able to draw a foul ☠️
Maybe they can fix that shit next
Trump regularly shits on the NBA and NYC and hasn’t been to a Knick game in over 12 years
It’s such a joke man, so disappointing that the league would kiss the ring like that, the dude is a total stain and he’s inconveniencing so many actual Knicks fans tonight
For real. I was listening to a podcast and they made the point that he hasn’t ever been a real Knicks fan. They are acting like he is Spike Lee or something.
Donald Trump, the huge Knicks fan who probably couldn’t name anyone on the team. An actual fan in his position wouldn’t make this game about himself. Especially in a city that hates him.
He probably know Mitchell cause he kisses his ass.
I just watched and rolled my eyes at the Trump ass kissing!! Gross.
Every other rich person does it. It’s nauseating. Never shows up to Knicks game until they’re up in the finals. Yea big fan. Ask him to name the starting 5 and he’ll just say “they’re great guys” or some shit.
The attempt to overthrow democracy, whateva happened there…
Happy that people have finally caught up with Sixers fans on the FUCK ADAM SILVER train
12 years later lol
I’ll take it. Whatever turns the public perception on him to finally get rid of that rat
Any context you can provide for a Cavs fan?
Adam Silver forced Sam Hinkie out who was the orchestrater of “the process” and replaced him with nepo baby Colangelo who had no business running a front office. Colangelo ended up wasting all Hinkies assets and shit talking his own players online. There’s a ton more if you want to go down the rabbit hole
“Find a new slant” provided me endless entertainment that summer
Goes even further than that. He forced Jerry Colangelo into the team as an “advisor” to basically stop Hinkie and force him out. Instead of doing a legitimate search, he immediately hired his bonehead son Jerry.
The layers of nepotism somehow make it so much worse.
The only thing silver did right was forcing sterling to sell the clippers. He’s been riding that this entire time.
Correction, Sterlings wife managed to get him labled as mentally incompetent, and then she sold the team on his behalf. Silver just ‘banned’ Sterling, which amounted to jack shit.
Hes a wormy sly one, that dastardly corporate fiend
I mean I don’t like him either, but what do you expect the commissioner of the NBA to say? Fuck trump? No the President of the US can’t attend a game he was invited to?
No one that’s head of a publicly visible corporation right now is going to say something to tick him off and his base.
Especially since this particular President has no qualms about making like difficult for people who he doesn’t like.
we gladly shit on all the Germans who went along with it
Seriously, especially when you’re literally employed by 30 multi billionaires who most probably voted and donated to him. His hands are kinda tied.
FDT tho.
Doesn’t matter he’s a fucking pussy for bowing to a pedophile
I don’t think Trump is a real Knicks “fan.” But his history shows that he does like sports. And he did have court side seats at MSG and went to many Knicks games back in the day. And he’s unquestionably a real New Yorker.
I think Silver made a fair point about sports should be something where we can set our political differences aside and come together.
That said, I hope MSG boos the absolute shit out of him.
The boos were pretty good for nationals 2019 World Series and they kind of cut around it which is fine but everyone knows.
I like how there’s only one time to set aside our political differences. Never works the other way at all, we’re calling Joe Biden a piece of shit on Easter but now we have to be civil guys.
Is he a real New Yorker when the whole city’s hated him for decades?
Tbh that might make him more of a New Yorker. Hating and being hated seems very NYC.
It should be, but try telling that to Jesse Owens
Ain’t that the story of life. What things should be versus what they are.
Silver made a fair point about sports being something that should be apolitical I hope the crowd boo’s the shit out of Trump
Silver made a fair point about sports being something that should be apolitical
I hope the crowd boo’s the shit out of Trump
???
It’s contradictory but also honest.
Slugworth from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
We really had no idea how good we had it w/David Stern.
Trump a huge Knicks fan,
I thought he told everyone to boycott the nba because lebron coriticised him
Trump couldn’t name three players on the Knicks.
Never forget this dude wrote a voluntary op-ed in the NYT calling for gambling legalization back in the day. He really got the ball rolling.
Also, he’s a sycophant for a pedophile ogre who just lost us a war we never needed to start, stripped our institutions bare, and is about to ruin our 250th. I hope Silver knows deep down that he should be ashamed of himself.
Saying Trump is a Knicks fan is giving him a lot more credit than he probably deserves. Maybe at one point in his life he liked the Knicks, but I would bet my house that he can’t name a single player on this roster. He just loves the attention and doesn’t even really care if it’s negative attention.
I still cannot get over the fact that he said, fans could just watch highlights when asked about streaming cost. I have seen bad ceo in corporate, but this is what it looks like in entertainment industry.
Never seen a more alien-like person. down to his mannerisms
Sports brining people together?
I don’t want to be brought together with a fucking pedophile
since silver has entered i think the nba has become more corporate bullshit which has always bothered me
I’ve been hating him since he opened the pandora box to ads on jerseys in North America
Adam Silver Sucks. Trump is a ghoul and rapist pedophile. Fuck them both.
Dear diary,
Silver has been ass and if it wasn’t for him coasting on Donald Sterling, the average fan would want him to fuck off.
I am formally asking for Silver’s resignation
Some of you guys are spending wayyyy too much energy on this.
Worst commissioner in American pro sports
How much does it matter when they still get views and engagement?
There is no incentive to change so long as people continue to dedicate so much of their time and money to the product.
Could it be more with be a better commish tho?
Did it look like Shaq jumped in and asked the BS follow-up before Ernie was able to respond? Ernie looked a bit miffed IMO
You think the president of any professional league is going to come out and bad mouth the president? Regardless of how much a piece of shit he is.
Come on man.
he is a vampire
He’s an employee of billionaire Trump supporters.
People used to talk shit about commissioners like David Stern and Bud Selig but the replacements are somehow worse.
Adam Silver so shit he by makes me nostalgic for David Stern, rip
Always has
David Stern made the league must watch television for this cunt to tear it all down in half the time.
God he had so much good press for finally banning Donald Sterling, and it’s only gone downhill from there.
Trump has never rooted for a black man in his life
I opened that and then closed the pregame as soon as I saw him sitting there.
Adam “Infantino” Silver is just another bald fraud.
Silver is the figure head of a top-3 sport in the US. Always saying the thing to make money is kinda in the job description.
The league has gotten worse under his helm - fact.
He’s terrifying to look at. He has “hello fellow human” energy. Like he’s getting face procedure and being Michael Jackson medicated.
He couldn’t care less about the fan experience as long as his billionaire buddies are happy, all while talking about how good it is for fans. Screw this guy, he is the worst.
He reminds me of that rat guy from Harry Potter and Trump is Voldemort but old and dumb
Oh no Adam Silver isnt a redditor. HOW WILL BASKETBALL SURVIVE!!
All the WOKE snowflakes are crying about nonsense tonight. Big mad. This is genuinely fun to watch
Listening to him defend the new Blazers owner for being a cheapskate during the playoffs this year basically sealed it for me. Silver is just about the bag at this point.
He is the American version of Giovanni Infantino.
Are you going to be ok?
So I heard that several blocks were shut down around the MSG, do you think this has caused revenue losses to these businesses.
we all thought Stern was bad.. this guy is worse. terrible af.
Trump is the only person I hate more than Draymond Green. Do you realize how hard that is?
Adam Silver is like a vampire that came up against Blade and just fled for the rest of his life because he couldn’t handle Blade.
He’s the ultimate corporate slime ball. There’s absolutely nothing sincere about him. NBA will just become more and more plastic.
Adam Silver is the perfect encapsulation of just…capitalism. He has done his job to line the owner’s pockets at every turn regardless of what he has to sacrifice. He has maximized short term profits and doesn’t give a fuck about anything else.
Hes about as good as yer gonna get. Its a corporate entity and hes CEO. The fuck you guys think its gonna be about?
What do you expect him to say? He can’t speak his mind because that’s not why he has the job.
Main thing that rubs me the wrong way is making excuses for flopping and talking about how guys were egregious before the flopping rules and how afterwards they’re just selling fouls and not flailing around. Absolutely not true and straight up gaslighting the fans. Meanwhile tanking has been also going on for decades yet they are bringing the hammer down on that. Their “fix” is very similar to the “fixes” of the 80s that completely failed. Ask any NBA fan and the majority will say flopping is a major issue that they want addressed.
Fuck that Nosferatu-looking-ass dude.
Finding put Trump is the president Adam Silver was hyping up as a Knicks fan completely changes the context of this Finals run
He’s the gaslighting champion of the world
Adam Silver is part of the Epstein tribe so it tracks
Is it nothing short of fascinating how many people who have a voice in the world who are just kissing his orange ass at every opportunity.
It’s actually fucking ADMIRABLE how tight of a grip the orange seems to have on the balls of so many people who could be using their platform to speak out against him.
Say what you will about him, but he’s done a really good job at showing how weak everyone else is.
I don’t think Tanking is a big issue. I think the foul baiting is a bigger issue and is ruining the game.
What he allowed with trump coming to nyc and did that to the fans is unacceptable. That’s a big slap to the nba to the fans and to the culture. I will never forgive Adam Silver
lol at the dorks on here
So much TDS
He’s no Manfred
He’s the dumbest commissioner in sports but because he was handed the Sterling situation morons fight you tooth and nail saying he’s great.
Ya the dude has gotten on my last nerve atp