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Locked On Jazz - Daily Podcast On The Utah Jazz

WEAKNESS - Adam Silver's INABILITY to STAND UP Hurts the NBA Narrative

Locked On Jazz - Daily Podcast On The Utah Jazz

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4.71.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Adam Silver faces mounting criticism—could a bolder commissioner mindset reshape the NBA’s narrative on tanking? David Locke unpacks Silver’s recent decisions, arguing the 65-game rule and reactions to media pressure are missing key opportunities to spotlight league strengths like competitive balance and rapid team rebuilds. With examples from the Utah Jazz, Oklahoma City Thunder, and Detroit Pistons, Locke examines how franchises rise from the bottom and why changes to lottery odds may not curb late-season tanking.

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what if adam silver had not been such a softy and not acquiesced to all the noise and changed the narrative like a commissioner should have next unlocked on jazz but um bum bum bum bum bum bum bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, pow.

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Pow.

0:28.4

You are locked on jazz, your daily podcast on the Utah Jazz.

0:56.1

Part of the Locked On Podcast your team every day how are you I'm David Locke on today's show the last late game watch of the year and it actually has some really important things to it.

1:01.4

The if the mock drafts are right.

1:05.6

No wonder we're doing what everyone's doing right now in the NBA.

1:12.5

But I want to start with something that's been driving me nuts about Adam Silver.

1:17.3

I'm an Adam Silver fan.

1:18.1

I've interacted with him.

1:18.9

I've always enjoyed it.

1:19.8

I think he's been great.

1:23.1

He's been great for player, you know, player power men.

1:29.1

He's been great for, I think he's been incredible in getting, you know, we haven't had a work stoppage he got the tv deals i have one real complaint about him for two years in a row when the world

1:41.9

outside gets loud and the talk show host start talking and the Sam

1:48.9

Prestes of the world start calling.

1:54.1

I feel like he acquiesques to the noise.

1:59.4

I feel like he falls trap to reacting to the national narrative.

2:06.2

I don't feel like the NFL does this.

2:08.9

But I also think most of all he had a story to tell that he didn't tell this year.

2:17.9

Let me say first that the amount of teams that are more interested in their draft position

2:28.9

than their final standings or those are the same is it an all-time high?

2:36.5

And I don't think it's great for the game.

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