Highlights of Adam Silver's ASW press conference comments

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@tomhaberstroh First item on Adam Silver's to-do list, he says, is cutting down back-to-backs. "We think we can make a dramatic reduction there."

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@MikePradaSBN Adam Silver said the NBA will "come as close as we can" to eliminating all 4-game-in-5-night stretches by as soon as next year.

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@KBergCBS Silver says he hopes to eliminate back-to-back games, though that may take longer.

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@KBergCBS Silver on playoff seeding: "If there were a simple solution, we would've made it long ago." Calls himself "believer" in conference system.

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@TimBontemps Silver says league is going to get behind a national 3-on-3 tournament. Interesting.

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@SpearsNBAYahoo Silver says Hawks sale process is "moving along on course" with "several interested parties."

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@ChrisMannixSI Silver says his basketball people feel an extended training camp is good but preseason games "aren't as valuable as they once were."

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@ChrisMannixSI Silver says the NBA's smoothing concept proposed lowering the cap to an artificial number, but the players would still receive 51%.

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@ChrisMannixSI Basically, NBA's plan would avoid an enormous jump in the salary cap in 2016. Union, per reports, doesn't seem that interested.

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@matt_dollinger Silver on NBA's age limit: "I think it would be much better for the game if the minimum age was 20, not 19."

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@ChrisMannixSI Silver confirms there is a plan to have an exhibition game with NBA players on August 1st in South Africa, the first NBA game on continent.

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