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The Domonique Foxworth Show

Is Adam Silver the Right Leader for the NBA? + SGA’s Flopping & Wemby's Flagrant Foul

The Domonique Foxworth Show

ESPN

Sports, Football

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2026

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Domonique Foxworth and Charlie Kravitz break down the NBA Draft lottery, Victor Wembanyama's flagrant foul and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's flopping before diving into Adam Silver's tenure as NBA commissioner, how he's handled issues such as flopping and tanking, and whether he's the right guy to lead the NBA moving forward.   0:00 Intro 0:49 Who should the Wizards draft #1? 6:42 Wemby's flagrant foul 11:53 SGA's flopping 16:47 The Atlantic piece on Adam Silver 30:49 Silver's stance on gambling 43:06 Silver's stance on flopping 53:17 Should the NBA shorten the season? 1:13:10 Silver's stance on tanking/expansion Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Off top, 1978.

0:33.7

The last time Washington basketball team won the NBA championship.

0:40.3

This is the Dominique Foxworth Show.

0:47.3

Welcome to the Dominique Foxworth Show. We won, buddy. We did. Oh yeah. I thought that was going to be way more of of an insult stat. You're going to say it's the last time that Washington has won 50 games in a year, which is also true. Yeah, but I mean, it's positive. It's a bright day here in D.C. Like the playoffs happened. Mother's Day. We're recording Mother's Day night after all the playoff games ended. So we'll go through all that.

1:11.7

Then we got a really interesting deep dive topic about Charlie's best bud, Adam Silver.

1:18.4

But before that, like, AJ DeBanza, I mean, that's what we go, right?

1:23.2

Or are you a Darren Peterson guy?

1:24.8

No, no.

1:25.4

If you have the first pick, I think given what we saw in college, you got to take DeBanza.

1:30.9

I mean, you were a Darren Peterson guy before he started having cramping issues.

1:35.5

And, you know, like, the context in that, too, is that DeBanza was viewed as by far in a way the best guy in his high school class all the way up until

1:44.7

during their last year on like the prep circuit, the AU circuit and stuff, where Peterson

1:51.5

gave DeBanza the business so badly that they moved him ahead of him in the class and people

1:55.8

started making the Kobe comparisons for Darren Peterson. But given the year what we saw and what we

1:59.8

saw from DeBanza, he's definitely the safer pick, he looked pissed that the Wizards got the first pick.

2:05.9

And the jazz from his adopted home state of Utah where he went to college at the end of high

2:11.1

school, got the second pick, which you asked me what I would do if I had the first pick.

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