Exclusive: Adam Silver on winning the Edison Achievement Award: ‘Sports remind us that some of the most important forms of innovation are human’
By Catherina Gioino••Fortune
The NBA Commissioner has an unlikely background to lead the league through crises and global expansion, but Adam Silver says executives should get hooped with some sports business knowhow.
If you look at Adam Silvers background, you wouldnt think hed eventually come to lead the NBA, nor bring it to be the massive marketing and media powerhouse it is today. The son of a labor lawyer, he…