Perspective: Adam Silver was the “good” commissioner. Why waste that defending bad guys?
“Like many others, I reviewed the report. I was and am horrified and disappointed by what I read. This conduct especially toward women is unacceptable and must never be repeated,” Paul wrote. “I am of the view that the sanctions fell short in truly addressing what we can all agree was atrocious behavior.”and $10 million fine. And they left Silver looking nothing like the businessman with a beating heart he has been built up to be.
Silver didn’t help himself by mishandling a tough and direct question about why there would be a different standard for an NBA employee who would have been fired for the same offenses levied against Sarver — i.e. saying the n-word at least five times, making inappropriate sexual or genitalia jokes and overseeing a franchise the independent law firm that investigated the Suns deemed “a difficult place for women to work.
“There are particular rights here of someone who owns an NBA team as opposed to somebody who is an employee,” Silver said.Sure. Someone who’s rich enough to buy an NBA franchise has the right to get away with being a reprobate and a bully. But of course that’s not what Silver meant — which is why Mike Bass, the league’s communications boss, needed to play spin doctor and send a short statement attempting toThere was, however, no cleaning up Silver’s attempt to engender sympathy on Sarver’s behalf.
“I’d also say that I would like to think that all of us would want to be judged by the totality of everything they’ve done, good and bad. It may be that in certain cases something you’ve done is so bad, it doesn’t matter what all the other good things you’ve done,” Silver said.
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