Rob Manfred AGAIN brought up the SALARY CAP and EXPANSION talk! Did Adam Silver leak the next NBA expansion cities!? (Episode 1261)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Baseball, Sports, Business

4.5 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Today’s word of the day is ‘commissioner’ as in Rob Manfred as in Adam Silver as in MLB as in NBA. Let’s start with baseball and what Rob had to say. He brought up expansion and salary caps and softball. What does it all mean? (15:50) Adam Silver then took the stage and he had some things to say: expansion, NBA Europe. (34:07) Review: Number One on the Call Sheet. (39:10) NBA playoffs are in full swing. The Lakers bounced back! Luka and LeBron were not going down 0-2. The Thunder and Grizzlies series is not a fair matchup. The Pacers and Bucks do not like each other and it shows. (41:40) Anthony Edwards keeps getting fined. He’s up to $370,000 in fines this year. Is this form of punishment just not working? (44:30) NPPOD. (46:00) The NFL draft is tomorrow from Green Bay! But we’ll focus on the Dallas Cowboys. Jerry Jones teased a trade, but that was it. What does that mean? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:32.6	Here you go.
0:33.6	Here you go.
0:45.4	You go. That's the nothing personal word of the day for Wednesday, April 23, 2025.
0:52.8	The commissioner of basketball and the commissioner of baseball went to the World
0:57.0	Congress of Sports this past week, and they didn't just go as participants. They went as
1:03.1	speakers. And when the commissioners speak, people listen. They are the incarnation of E.F. Hutton. I'm fascinated with things that they talk about
1:15.2	because it gives you insight into the direction of the leagues, the thoughts of the owners,
1:22.7	possible minefields with the players. And every time they speak at something like the World Congress, it is with purpose,
1:34.3	with intent, and with agenda.
1:37.3	And that is not in any way pejorative.
1:41.9	When you are asked to appear at a sports business journal conference,
1:47.8	like the World Congress of Sports, the reason why you do it is that having a good
1:53.7	relationship with SBJ, Sports Business Journal matters. They're all the lists of 40 under 40.
1:59.2	There are all the awards for organization of the year or for
2:03.3	person of the year or for power brokers of the year. There's nothing like a magazine that has
2:08.9	lists, whether it's the top 100 universities and the amount of money that is spent by universities to get on that list and to increase their standing on the list.
2:22.6	When SBJ does something and you sponsor it, you go and you talk to it, and you decide what talking points are important for this audience.
2:33.6	But this audience are not the participants
2:36.4	at the CIA World Congress of Sports
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