Adam Silver sounds like a good commissioner

Commissioner Silver was recently on Woj's new podcast The Vertical, LINK and Zach Lowe's podcast LINK He was mostly there to talk about Rondo's suspension especially with Woj, but had some interesting things to say about other issues.

- Feels positively about the CBA negotiations in 2017. He didn't make any guarantees, but they are already hashing out issues with the players and the general mood is things are so good right now for both owners and players that a work stoppage is the last thing either side wants. Jordan, Shaq, Grant Hill, The Admiral, Penny are all owners or partial owners, so superstar players want to become owners one day which helps because "profit" is no longer a dirty word.
- They are looking at changes to the DLeague, nothing is firm right now but they have talked about expanding the draft to a 3rd round and giving teams 2 more roster spots that would essentially be reserved for DLeague players to give teams incentive to use and run their own teams.
- While talking about the cap and revenue sharing one of the points Silver made multiple times was they don't want a system where large market teams have a significant advantage. Parity is a goal according to Silver.
- There is no guarantee of profitability in the NBA, but if teams are well mangaged there's no reason they shouldn't be profitable. For the Chicken Littles that think the Pels are leaving with AD next year, they'd have to be more mismanaged than they were by Shinn to leave.
- Is in favor of ads on jerseys
- They continue to look at ways to reduce the length of the game. 10 years ago the average viewer watched about an hour of a 2.5 hour game, now they watch 45 minutes.