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WFAN Daily

Mike Francesa with Adam Silver

WFAN Daily

Audacy

Sports

3.8795 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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NBA Commissioner Adam Silver joins Mike to touch on the league issues.

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1:12.7

with your proclamation, and how has it been received inside your league? Which proclamation was that?

1:23.1

You know, about all your changes that you wanted to make. Oh, it's interesting.

1:27.7

I think on one hand, people know we need to make changes

1:32.3

and that you can't stay static,

1:36.8

that we need to innovate just like every other business,

1:39.4

but people also are afraid of change.

1:42.2

And I think some of these ideas that have been floating around for years, for example,

1:46.6

in-season tournament, potentially receding teams as we go into the finals.

1:54.8

That's one of the concepts we're talking about and a play in tournament.

1:58.9

All of those concepts have been floated. We've looked at a

2:02.1

million different permutations of them. And now I see an opportunity to move forward with the

2:07.2

75th anniversary coming in 21-22 season. Sort of what I'm putting out there is let's try some of

2:14.7

these things. And we don't have to make the change is permanent, at least initially.

2:19.4

Let's, and let's, until I think until you actually, in real game conditions, try these different formats,

2:27.3

we're not going to really know.

2:28.3

We have a G-League, so we can experiment there with different things.

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