Near the end of an otherwise spirited exchange with newly minted NBA Commissioner Adam Silver on the final day of the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell offered up the following softball:
“If you had a magic wand and you could bend the teams and the players to your will, what one thing would you change about the league?”
Silver’s answer: Up the minimum age of incoming rookies from 19 to 20.
For the hundreds in attendance, the response couldn’t help but ring a bit boring.
That is, of course, until you consider Silver's guiding principle: If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
In his 22 years with the NBA, Silver has borne intimate witness to an unprecedented period of growth for the league, its teams and the global popularity of the game itself. It’s a legacy the 51-year-old Silver—a David Stern disciple through and through—is determined to protect.
That’s not to say Silver’s will be a rigid reign, however. Expansion to Europe, eliminating road-trip back-to-backs, rejiggering the draft and ...
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