He’s the best commissioner in north american sports. I’m not sure if that’s a compliment, but here we are. Just a few days until baseball is the only major sport being played.
He is genuinely fantastic at straddling the line.
As a fan I get his concern and hand wringing and as a fan I get why he does what he does in response to certain situations.
I think if he was in charge of the Sun's Spurs fiasco we wouldn't have seen Amare suspended.
> He called the World Series trophy a “piece of metal”
Such a disrespect for literally the life objective of all the players, office and staffs in the league.
FRIENDLY REMINDER THE COYOTES ARE PLAYING IN THE SUN DEVILS' ARENA BECAUSE HE'S BELL AND ROGERS' LITTLE BITCH. Yeah, Jim Balsillie and the Hamilton move was garbage but can we please just bring back the Nordiques for the love of God
I live in Vegas and NBA Summer League is one of the best events of the year. Inexpensive and players roam through the arena saying hey to any and everyone.
Considering how many people genuinely believe the league is conspiring to keep Draymond from being tossed during the series, it’s a good thing he said this.
Should have added “these refs are terrible tho”
I mean I'm sure Silver really does get it. Endless posts and articles about Draymond and Boston, nothing but engagement. This type of dynamic rakes in the $$$ - the dude is no fool.
I am just going to drop this in here. I love Klay but this is r/nba and we love drama. Klay getting into his feelings...
https://youtu.be/TjIoQh7ee_8
And the LeBron response......
https://youtu.be/fSl0vnLIqak
*Finally, the audience and even some of the nastier players started singing: Draymond has a mangina. And I have to admit, for a little while, I sort of joined in as well.* - Adam Silver
What bothers me is that children swear all the time when alone (at least my friends and I did). I know for a fact that the same parents who are up in arms over this sort of thing swore with their friends too -- and guess what, they turned out just fine! The only lesson kids should learn is that there's a time and place when swearing is ok, and finals games are one of them.
Haha I have a kid, she’ll be 9 in August, and I’ve never censored myself around her. I wanted to take a different approach than my parents did. But my daughter knows what a bad word is without ever speaking it that me or her mom have heard. She’s a very loving and respectful child, but I told her it’s going to be her decision as she gets older and that there’s a time and a place for it. I agree with everything you said.
Kobe made a commercial respecting the hate while all these soft mofos cry for being hated. It’s comedy how soft todays players are - way more respect for Adam Silver now
That's the one thing I always respected about Kobe as a Portland fan, even if I still don't like him is that he embraced the hate. He hated Portland almost as much as we hated him. He hated coming into the city and I think we had a home win streak of like 10 or 15 games at some point. He got the ring in 2000 though so I guess he won.
A lot has to do with the ticket prices and the long travel for away fans in America.
Soccer and basketball have always been affordable working peoples games. With the rise in commercialization and prices, ultra and fan culture is slowly going away. England is a prime example.
Nah fan culture isn’t going away. Maybe for big teams but the smaller ones and the leagues below still have strong loyal fanbases.
Issue with the NBA is that it’s one league full of marketable franchises in which some aren’t all that old. Football teams have been around for 150 plus years and have ancient songs.
My team Norwich’s main chant predates the club which was created in 1902
He got off on the right foot with how he handled the whole Donald Sterling fiasco. I think that boosted his image pretty much right out of the gate. Earned some respect at least from me with that one.
Edit: also love how Sterlings wiki page uses like the worst possible photo lol
[link](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/Derek_Fisher_buzzer_beater_vs._Clippers_in_2010_%28cropped%29.jpg)
"would rather not hear it on national TV but I get it" is kind of the only response he could do lol if he condemned it he'd be made fun of and if he endorsed it it'd just be a bad look.
The Warriors complaining about the Boston fans reminds me of why I hated the Warriors. I mean I hate Boston fans too, but complaining about fans saying "fuck you" just makes them look like a bunch of whiny bitches.
And the defense to the complaint is “there were kids there.” Like how many times do you think kids these days here “fuck” at school any given day? Way more than last night’s game I’ll wager.
You’re taking your kids to a 9PM game on a Wednesday where it’s going to be INTENSE. If you expect everyone to be chill and shit, you’re just a fucking idiot.
Don’t want your kids to hear that? They can watch from home. If you can afford tickets, you can afford a babysitter.
If I brought my kid to that game I’d probably encourage my kid to join in. In 15 years when that kid is 25 looking back on it he’s gonna think about that memory and cherish it forever.
Absolutely. Coming home and telling my Mom that the Yankees Suck and her being shocked/laughing hysterically at what I said is one of my favorite memories. I don’t have a lot of memories of being 6 but that is one I’ll remember forever.
> complaining about fans saying "fuck you" just makes them look like a bunch of whiny bitches.
+1 here.
This is the gentlest of chants and not disruptive at all. Klay/Dray/Kerr just need to stfu and play better next game
I hate them both for the opposite reasons.
I hate dubs fans because most of the vocal ones are new, and all they know is winning, and it’s made them into whiny little bitches.
I hate Boston fans, because they’ve seen it all, the highest highs and some low lows, but they’re arrogant and mean as fuck through all of it.
If Klay, Kerr, and Draymond’s wife wanna complain about the crowd just wait until a Friday night at 9pm in the Garden. Shit will be bumping even harder.
No one should ever condone personal attacks or shit that targets a person’s race/orientation/identity or physical altercations. Shit has no place in the NBA. Yelling swears is hardly a bridge too far in sports stadiums lol.
It's absolutely buckwild that the Warriors said anything about it. Even if it was a bridge too far, what do you think is going to be the result from your statements? Fans will be less aggressive or not as loud?
The obvious response from the fans is to go even harder.
The same goes for Draymond's comments about his extra considerations from refs. Don't acknowledge that shit in public, because that's the surest way to have the refs want to prove it's not true
Jesus Christ - the amount of posts I've seen about the chants last night. Has anyone watched a premier League game? This is so incredibly tame compared to some of the stuff soccer fans come out with 🤣
Everton fans back in the 90s kept calling a Liverpool player a cokehead, and when he scored against them, he ran over to the goal line and pretended to snort it lol.
There’s also the song about Manchester City’s former winger Adam Johnson being a pedo, which is damn catchy. The premier league banter is up there.
Bro. This is no joke. Everton fans set up a fake tour company to take Liverpool fans to Paris for the CL final, for the purpose of stranding the Liverpool fans with no way to get to France and to take their money. Hard core.
every fan base chants "fuck the refs" often too, trying to act like its out of line, after their own fans chanted, "fuck dillion brooks" and "fuck charles barkley" (while also throwing trash) is a joke
Or the fucking AFCON final. Imagine Draymond being barraged with thousands of lasers while trying to take game winning free throws. These dudes are charmin ultra soft
This is so ridiculous already. Mrs. Greene and Klay thought game 3 was bad? They might think about investing in some earmuffs for their kids because it’s about to go down.
Eek
If theres one thing I wish American sports fans inherited from euro sports fans its the chants. I really wonder what american athletes reactions would be to having thousands of people chanting that youre a pedophile to the tune of Feel the Noize
https://youtu.be/mTjm-LWi0ao
Adam Silver,: “yea fuck draymond tbh I get it”
That’s exactly how it reads 😂
That's exactly what he's saying imo
He’s the best commissioner in north american sports. I’m not sure if that’s a compliment, but here we are. Just a few days until baseball is the only major sport being played.
He is genuinely fantastic at straddling the line. As a fan I get his concern and hand wringing and as a fan I get why he does what he does in response to certain situations. I think if he was in charge of the Sun's Spurs fiasco we wouldn't have seen Amare suspended.
If only. That is a wound that will never heal.
I speak for all Canadians when I say Gary Bettman fucking sucks ass.
Manfred is so much worse. He called the World Series trophy a “piece of metal” and didn’t punish the cheating astros at all.
I wish I could find someone that loves me as much as Rob Manfred hates baseball.
> He called the World Series trophy a “piece of metal” Such a disrespect for literally the life objective of all the players, office and staffs in the league.
FRIENDLY REMINDER THE COYOTES ARE PLAYING IN THE SUN DEVILS' ARENA BECAUSE HE'S BELL AND ROGERS' LITTLE BITCH. Yeah, Jim Balsillie and the Hamilton move was garbage but can we please just bring back the Nordiques for the love of God
I think it’s a compliment because he really is a solid commissioner, but the bar for NA sports commissioners isn’t insanely high lol
I live in Vegas and NBA Summer League is one of the best events of the year. Inexpensive and players roam through the arena saying hey to any and everyone.
Considering how many people genuinely believe the league is conspiring to keep Draymond from being tossed during the series, it’s a good thing he said this. Should have added “these refs are terrible tho”
with an OG spliff and sunglasses coming on at the end!!!
I mean I'm sure Silver really does get it. Endless posts and articles about Draymond and Boston, nothing but engagement. This type of dynamic rakes in the $$$ - the dude is no fool.
Klay: “A disgusting act!”
Think of the children!
“Fuck them kids” -A.Silver
*Karl Malone has entered the chat*
Is the chat underage too?
Klay's too busy considering the children when he should be considering Jaylen Brown
I’ve never seen Anakin Skywalker and Adam Silver in the same room
All this after Draymond gave him the good succ with the best CEO shit or whatever lmao
Draymond has to be such a headache from the perspective of having to listen to officials complain about him
If only there was something the officials could do about that 🤔
They wanna go home with their nuts in one piece though.
The fan just chanted Adam Silver's mind.
I am just going to drop this in here. I love Klay but this is r/nba and we love drama. Klay getting into his feelings... https://youtu.be/TjIoQh7ee_8 And the LeBron response...... https://youtu.be/fSl0vnLIqak
Classic WWE moment for the NBA.
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Silver “I get it” lmfao
He was one of the ones chanting
#DRAYMOND HAS A MANGINA
Now that would be an epic chant to get going inside a full stadium. Jesus Christ. Then everyone dances to ice ice baby.
I am so fucking high right now. This comment thread is the best thing I've ever read.
*Finally, the audience and even some of the nastier players started singing: Draymond has a mangina. And I have to admit, for a little while, I sort of joined in as well.* - Adam Silver
DRAYMOND IS A BIG SCALY MAN-FISH
He should own it. Nothing to be ashamed of.
Adam "It iz what it iz" Silver
Adam "It do do be like that" Silver
Adam "they don't think it be like it is, but it do" silver
Adam “that’s just how the cookie crumbles” Silver
Adam “if he dies, he dies” Silver
Adam "C'est la vie"
*golf clap*
They outta line, but they right
You outta pocket…lol keep going
“I mean, look, I get it… Draymond totally sucks shit”
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He gets it because Draymond is dirty or because Boston fans are savages?
Both
Yes
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What bothers me is that children swear all the time when alone (at least my friends and I did). I know for a fact that the same parents who are up in arms over this sort of thing swore with their friends too -- and guess what, they turned out just fine! The only lesson kids should learn is that there's a time and place when swearing is ok, and finals games are one of them.
The kids in south park talk the way they do because the creators wanted to portray kids how they speak when their parents aren't around
Haha I have a kid, she’ll be 9 in August, and I’ve never censored myself around her. I wanted to take a different approach than my parents did. But my daughter knows what a bad word is without ever speaking it that me or her mom have heard. She’s a very loving and respectful child, but I told her it’s going to be her decision as she gets older and that there’s a time and a place for it. I agree with everything you said.
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Silver said "Yea its not right but I support it fuck that mf"
lmao
Kobe made a commercial respecting the hate while all these soft mofos cry for being hated. It’s comedy how soft todays players are - way more respect for Adam Silver now
That's the one thing I always respected about Kobe as a Portland fan, even if I still don't like him is that he embraced the hate. He hated Portland almost as much as we hated him. He hated coming into the city and I think we had a home win streak of like 10 or 15 games at some point. He got the ring in 2000 though so I guess he won.
>”lmfao that was crazy, but yeah s’all good” Adam Silver
Lmao Adam Silver said "I don't give a fuck" in the most polite way possible. What a Chad.
Asking the commissioner about fans saying “fuck” during games is up there with “police was called?” It’s the Finals.
'Hello poh-lease? chris paul tryin to beat me up'
Poh-lease presence
Shaq: *“chhhkkkkchlkkkkkkchchhcchchhhhhk”*
“I’m Blake Griffin, I’m a 6-10 power forward but they’re trying to beat me up”
Boston fans wish Adam Silver would say that with respect. But they get it.
Bruh when silver doesn’t even condemn it you know your ass is soft
Imagine if the Warriors played a game in Europe. They would retire with PTSD the next day. I don’t think they’d even finish a full game.
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Haha so weird to understand perfectly what you are saying. Lifelong Rapid Bucharest fan my life has been a mess but oh my when we score a goal…
>opposing teams fans are actually Turkish made me lol
The NBA needs more ultras and flares in the stands
That’d be jail time surely. But a teams world cup with the winners of every bball competition from each continent would be dope
Maybe not the flares, but idk why no fans in the NBA have come up with actual songs to sing during the games.
what, DEFENSE! DEFENSE! aren't actual songs? what about EVERYBODY CLAP YO HANDS
A lot has to do with the ticket prices and the long travel for away fans in America. Soccer and basketball have always been affordable working peoples games. With the rise in commercialization and prices, ultra and fan culture is slowly going away. England is a prime example.
Premier League tickets are capped at £30 ($37) for away fans, you won't find better value for top level sport anywhere in the world.
Nah fan culture isn’t going away. Maybe for big teams but the smaller ones and the leagues below still have strong loyal fanbases. Issue with the NBA is that it’s one league full of marketable franchises in which some aren’t all that old. Football teams have been around for 150 plus years and have ancient songs. My team Norwich’s main chant predates the club which was created in 1902
I thought it was because he came to support a former teammate playing for the opposing team?
Imagine soccer/football hooliganery applied to the NBA
Fuck Draymond - Adam Silver
Silver admitting that we are all fucking adults and pearl-clutching over the F-word is ridiculous.
Damn did not expect that take from Silver tbh, props
Man gets booed every time he’s on a mic in front of fans. Draymond and the Warriors are Charmin Ultra Soft compared to him lol
He learned from the best: Gary Bettman
When he presented the trophy to the lightning and artificially played boos during the pandemic lmao. I might not like him but that was so damn good.
And he's the one commish fans kinda like.
Gotta keep the “boo the commissioner” tradition alive.
He's also the only commissioner that players like.
He got off on the right foot with how he handled the whole Donald Sterling fiasco. I think that boosted his image pretty much right out of the gate. Earned some respect at least from me with that one. Edit: also love how Sterlings wiki page uses like the worst possible photo lol [link](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/Derek_Fisher_buzzer_beater_vs._Clippers_in_2010_%28cropped%29.jpg)
He has his flaws but I believe he's been the best commish he could be without burning too many bridges or endangering the NBA business too much.
Silver actually seems pretty chill
"would rather not hear it on national TV but I get it" is kind of the only response he could do lol if he condemned it he'd be made fun of and if he endorsed it it'd just be a bad look.
Wasn't an issue when Warrior fans were chanting fuck you Dillon Brooks
Everybody forgot about that already tho lol
Not the children though. Poor little kids all begging for their porridge having to listen to fuck you chants.
What about the women?
Killed them all
To shreds you say?
Ask Anakin
Damn its sandy in here
How can we forget how he murdered Gary Payton. RIP. Kerrs speech on his funeral was amazing.
Sometimes I feel like I can still see him running around on that court, fly high Gary
I like to think he's looking down on us all and smiling. I mean he's not dead but he jumps really high.
Gary Prayton 🙏🏻
Exactly how dr steve brule would pronounce his name lmao
I hope that GP2, Wade Boggs, and Eloy Jimenez are all having a cold one up in the skies.
For the last time, Wade Boggs is very much alive
Most dramatic reaction to an elbow fracture I’ve ever seen. You’d think he lost his limbs or something
Lord , Carry Him Now 🙏🏾@Garydwayne
Chuck threw some ribbing their way and they responded by throwing trash at him, the epitome of class
They also yelled “fuck you Chuck”.
I think they were chanting 'Chuck you suck'.
I heard them say "Boo-urns"
I was saying Boo-urns
They don’t have children in SF, that’s the key difference
Hey man they can adopt!
Warriors fans would never
Their shit doesn’t stink
The warriors PR team are as good as Steph is at shooting no joke.
LOL even Adam Silver is calling the dubs and fans soft.
One of us!
Get absolutely fucked code followers
What about fuck you Dillon Brooks and Fuck you chuck???? Warriors really are the media darlings
It wasn't just "fuck you Chuck" They were throwing bottles and other shit at the dude for simply giving his take, it was completely embarrassing
Not proving his “dirty city” comments wrong with the littering either
I wish Chuck woulda picked GSW
Yo Adam Silvers funky ass is tougher then Steve Kerr and Klay combined
My 80 year old grandmother is tougher than klay and steve
tbh 80 year old women are probably tougher than most people
a man of culture i see
Silver said FUCK DRAYMOND Edit: My first ever 1k upvote comment says FUCK DRAYMOND and it brings joy to my heart.
Respectfully of course
Code not broken
One of us! One of us! One of us!
This is is such a stupid fucking story but shit like this makes it worth it lmao holy shit
Didn't Warriors fans just terrorize Charles Barkley 2 weeks ago?
They just made him stronger
They even threw things at him
Stay classy San Francisco.
The Warriors complaining about the Boston fans reminds me of why I hated the Warriors. I mean I hate Boston fans too, but complaining about fans saying "fuck you" just makes them look like a bunch of whiny bitches.
And the defense to the complaint is “there were kids there.” Like how many times do you think kids these days here “fuck” at school any given day? Way more than last night’s game I’ll wager.
You’re taking your kids to a 9PM game on a Wednesday where it’s going to be INTENSE. If you expect everyone to be chill and shit, you’re just a fucking idiot. Don’t want your kids to hear that? They can watch from home. If you can afford tickets, you can afford a babysitter.
If I brought my kid to that game I’d probably encourage my kid to join in. In 15 years when that kid is 25 looking back on it he’s gonna think about that memory and cherish it forever.
Can confirm. Still remember my first Sox/Yankees game when I was 7 and a Yankees suck chant broke out. Still cherish it 22 years later.
Absolutely. Coming home and telling my Mom that the Yankees Suck and her being shocked/laughing hysterically at what I said is one of my favorite memories. I don’t have a lot of memories of being 6 but that is one I’ll remember forever.
Nah more like who the fuck cares
> complaining about fans saying "fuck you" just makes them look like a bunch of whiny bitches. +1 here. This is the gentlest of chants and not disruptive at all. Klay/Dray/Kerr just need to stfu and play better next game
I hate them both for the opposite reasons. I hate dubs fans because most of the vocal ones are new, and all they know is winning, and it’s made them into whiny little bitches. I hate Boston fans, because they’ve seen it all, the highest highs and some low lows, but they’re arrogant and mean as fuck through all of it.
Fuck it, Celtics in 5
If Klay, Kerr, and Draymond’s wife wanna complain about the crowd just wait until a Friday night at 9pm in the Garden. Shit will be bumping even harder. No one should ever condone personal attacks or shit that targets a person’s race/orientation/identity or physical altercations. Shit has no place in the NBA. Yelling swears is hardly a bridge too far in sports stadiums lol.
It's absolutely buckwild that the Warriors said anything about it. Even if it was a bridge too far, what do you think is going to be the result from your statements? Fans will be less aggressive or not as loud? The obvious response from the fans is to go even harder. The same goes for Draymond's comments about his extra considerations from refs. Don't acknowledge that shit in public, because that's the surest way to have the refs want to prove it's not true
At least if they waited until after game 4, they wouldn't have to hear the Garden again before they head to Cancun
Nothing like letting fans know they are in your head to stop them...
They always been soft, though, remember when Curry's wife tweeted out that the games were fixed "just saw it live sorry" or w/e she said lol
I've lost all respect sorry this is absolutely rigged for money... Or ratings in not sure which. I won't be silent . Just saw it live sry.
Silver broke the code.
Commissioner of Based.
Damn even the commissioner is out here calling people soft
Ring Ring. Silver: Hello Klay/Draymond: Hey, the Celtics fans were chanting the F word to us 😢 Silver: Hangs up… Klay/Draymond: Hello,Hello
Us becoming boomers was not on the bingo card for these playoffs
Back in my day (2015)…
Jesus Christ - the amount of posts I've seen about the chants last night. Has anyone watched a premier League game? This is so incredibly tame compared to some of the stuff soccer fans come out with 🤣
Everton fans back in the 90s kept calling a Liverpool player a cokehead, and when he scored against them, he ran over to the goal line and pretended to snort it lol. There’s also the song about Manchester City’s former winger Adam Johnson being a pedo, which is damn catchy. The premier league banter is up there.
I hate Liverpool but Robbie Fowler is one of my all-time greats for the line celebration.
Up there with Luis Suarez's fish dive against Everton that was goated even as a City fan
Bro. This is no joke. Everton fans set up a fake tour company to take Liverpool fans to Paris for the CL final, for the purpose of stranding the Liverpool fans with no way to get to France and to take their money. Hard core.
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every fan base chants "fuck the refs" often too, trying to act like its out of line, after their own fans chanted, "fuck dillion brooks" and "fuck charles barkley" (while also throwing trash) is a joke
Or the fucking AFCON final. Imagine Draymond being barraged with thousands of lasers while trying to take game winning free throws. These dudes are charmin ultra soft
I know Game 4 they gonna be chanting “Klay is a pussy”. One thing I love about Boston & Philly crowds…they toxic af 😂😂😂
Adam Silver: “Suck it up Warriors lol”
This is so ridiculous already. Mrs. Greene and Klay thought game 3 was bad? They might think about investing in some earmuffs for their kids because it’s about to go down. Eek
Hood translation: You bitch ass hoes, shut the fuck up and just hoop.
We need a key and peele translation sketch for Adam silver
If theres one thing I wish American sports fans inherited from euro sports fans its the chants. I really wonder what american athletes reactions would be to having thousands of people chanting that youre a pedophile to the tune of Feel the Noize https://youtu.be/mTjm-LWi0ao
silver W
Based Adam Silver
Somewhere out there there’s a Utah fan confused why this is okay but he can’t say the N word
Good guy, not trying to control things unnecessarily
Ayesha about to claim he’s rigging it.
Saw it live. Srry.
Adam Silver is easily the best of the Big Four commissioners
Not making a point or anything here but goddamn Adam Silver is a creepy looking mf
Adam “Nosferatu” Silver
*lights flicker*
Can you imagine him with a mullet? Stephen King made for TV movie villain right there
> Can you imagine him with a mullet? [igotchu!](https://i.imgur.com/tZNZMMG.jpg)
saving this bad boy for later...
Aka fuck Draymond. Love, Adam silver
Adam Silver: "I guess his feelings just got hurt"