Adam Silver calls Memphis 'a great market for the NBA,' says owner Robert Pera has no interest in moving team
Matt Infield: Notable comments here from Adam Silver on the Grizzlies: -Calls Memphis “a great market historically for the NBA” -Reiterates Robert Pera has no interest in moving the team -Does say he’d like to see the team play a few games in Nashville a year to be “Tennessee’s team” x. com x. com More on Adam Silver: Recent HoopsHype Rumors Adam Silver: And right now, basketball is the number two sport in Europe, but from a commercial standpoint it generates about 1% of the revenue.
” Craig Carton: “Second to soccer, I assume. ” Adam Silver: “Second to soccer, yeah. But from a commercial standpoint, it’s minuscule.
And so the marketplace sees a big opportunity in basketball. I mean, we’ve already talked about, you know, some—you know, of course, Luka, whether it’s—Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is Canadian, he’s not European—but the number of international players we have now, you know, Giannis, Wemby, some of our very best players, you know, Jokic—I could keep going on. — 4/18/2026 YouTube Adam Silver: “I still think the (65-game) rule is working.
Remember, even when we came together with the union and passed this rule, one-third of all NBA players, the season before we put this rule in place, did not play 65 games, which is crazy. And remember, from the union standpoint, it’s zero-sum. In our collective bargaining agreement, if we pay out 50% of the revenue, we pay out 50% of the revenue.
Where this becomes important is not just, I think, for players who deservedly want to be eligible for these honors, but it also has an impact on their contract. To the extent one player doesn’t get the money, another player does. So the union’s always on both sides of these things, and we always knew anywhere you drew the line, there would be guys who would both be disappointed, and some people might say it was unfair.
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