Adam Silver Says NBA Is Considering Midseason Tournament

July 15th, 2014 by Matt Fitzgerald Leave a reply »

New NBA commissioner Adam Silver has made his presence felt since succeeding David Stern on February 1. Now Silver is proposing quite a bold strategy to inject life into the middle of the regular season.

Gary Washburn of The Boston Globe has the details and his own analysis from Silver's Tuesday press conference, in which he pitched a potential midseason tournament:



Yahoo Sports' Marc J. Spears added the potential location, Las Vegas, where a branch of the Association's summer league action is taking place:



Now that would be quite the shakeup.

ESPN.com's Marc Stein offered his take, praising Silver's innovative mindset:





Former sports marketing executive Sony Vaccaro outlined the opposing ideologies Stern and Silver have brought to the commissioner's office.

"They are absolutely two different people," said Vaccaro, per an October 2012 report by The Wall Street Journal's Scott Cacciola, Ashby Jones and Matthew Futterman. "David was thought of as someone who ramrodded his way through with his ideas. David is his mentor, but Adam's not like ...

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