Shan and Bobby broke down Adam Silver’s recent appearance on The Pat McAfee Show, where the NBA Commissioner addressed the Mavericks-Lakers trade drama. Silver explained why he didn’t intervene, claiming he didn’t have the authority. Bobby wasn’t buying it, pointing to David Stern’s infamous veto and demanding more accountability. Silver addressed and denied rumors about potentially moving the Mavs to Las Vegas.
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00:00Adam Silver says, well, we know that Roger Goodell has done this with certain NFL teams.
00:20Yeah.
00:20Like he's gone to them and was like, clean your S up.
00:23Stop embarrassing the shield.
00:25Uh, Adam Silver says he understands the outrage, the anger, and the revolt in DFW.
00:32So I get the fans' passion.
00:34I understand, again, why Dallas Mavericks fans are so upset.
00:39I personally am a fan of Luka Doncic.
00:42I think he's a great young man, you know, and, you know, let's see how this turns out.
00:47I want him to be great.
00:49I want the Dallas Mavericks to be great.
00:50But there's no doubt, I'd say, I've been in the league for a long time.
00:55It's been remarkable, I think, how much interest there's been in this trade.
01:00Maybe because you have the Lakers on the other side of it.
01:03You have the happenstance that Mark Cuban just recently stepped out as the owner of that team.
01:09So a lot of chatter around it.
01:11But, you know, we'll see when they play the games, how this works out.
01:15Yeah.
01:15It's good for you, all the attention and the noise.
01:17It sucks for us, man.
01:19Yeah, it's good for the league.
01:21It's good for you.
01:22Well, I mean, I'm getting really tired of the, you know, we'll just, we'll see how it plays out.
01:27You know, no, we kind of, we know how it's played out.
01:30So far, it's been really bad.
01:31It's been awful.
01:32It has been disastrous to this point.
01:34And their responses to it every turn has been disastrous.
01:37But, I mean, again, we talked about it yesterday.
01:40They want to hang up their two and a half quarter banner.
01:43They want the, you know, that's what they want to put up there.
01:46And that's what they want to claim.
01:47It's just like, see, we were right.
01:48We're just never going to be able to see what I envisioned other than that two and a half quarters.
01:53But I was right.
01:53That's going to be the excuse.
01:54But then the follow-up to that is, yeah, we criticized you because we knew Anthony Davis wasn't going to be on the floor.
02:02Oh, yeah.
02:02That's why we were going nuts.
02:04So you have no injury excuse because injury was part of the criticism of getting AD here.
02:09Yeah, and I mean, that's what we theorized this.
02:13But, again, that was something McMahon said the other day on that podcast was he said AD came back too early because he was trying to save Nico's butt.
02:20Yep.
02:20And look what it did.