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conclusionFROM TOP: AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES; JAE C. HONG/ASSOCIATED PRESSAdam Silver’s Sleepless Nights
TheseasonbeginsafteranunsettledshowdownwithChina.Wheredoestheleaguegofromhere?
NBA|JASONGAY
The Lakers and Nets played two games in China, above, but the NBA remains
off the air on China’s CCTV, a situation Adam Silver, left, said remains ‘raw.’SPORTS
rookie comet Zion Williamson is a
bummer—after surgery, he may
miss up to two months—but plenty
of intrigue remains. Perhaps the
most delicious possibility is that
Morey’s Rockets, who traded for
human cannonball Russell West-
brook, are a serious contender.
How wild would that be, after all
this, Silver on stage with Morey at
season’s end?
It’s a long way off, all of it. For
the commissioner, there was much
work to do—to assess, repair, and
adapt to an unsettled new land-
scape. There is unlikely to be any
resolution with China that won’t
provoke some form of blowback.
“It’s unavoidable for businesses of
any kind in this day and age,” he
said. “It’s virtually impossible to
stay on the sidelines. Especially
when you have a young fan base,
as we do. They expect you to take
positions. Incidentally, I’ve pointed
out many times that taking posi-
tions doesn’t necessarily mean that
everyone is going to agree with
you.”
He was off to Toronto for a
championship ceremony for the
Raptors, Canada’s first, but none of
this was going away. Adam Silver
knows that. Maybe somewhere in
there, he will sleep.[This] is an opportunity to talk
about issues that people, through
sports, might otherwise not have
interest in. What’s happening glob-
ally? What’s happening with our
relationship in China? Maybe some
positive can come out of that.”
He had to know that was a sur-
real silver lining to see— perhaps
this could be a teachable mo-
ment —after such a fraught trip.
The issue had chased them back
home. Last week, it was LeBron
James’s turn at the bottom of the
pile, after a news conference in
which he seemed to tweak Morey
for starting up this whole mess.
There had been protests in support
of Hong Kong demonstrators in-
side NBA arenas, including one
down the street in Brooklyn. The
NBA remains off the air on China’s
CCTV, a situation Silver acknowl-
edged remains “raw.”
This was not the discussion he
preferred to kick off a season. And
there is excitement about the new
year: the starry battle in Los Ange-
les between James’s Lakers and
Kawhi Leonard’s Clippers; the
thrilling Giannis Antetokounmpo in
Milwaukee; Kyrie Irving resettled
in Brooklyn, waiting to be joined
by the rehabilitating Kevin Durant.
A knee injury to New Orleans’s“People don’t seem to be listen-
ing to each other in the U.S.,” he
said. “There’s a part of me—it’s as
much frustration as a citizen, I
would say, less in my capacity as
commissioner of the NBA—people
don’t get through even a full
tweet. That’s what their attention
span is. It’s the first five words of
the tweet. It’s not even the whole
sentence.”
“I just look at the political land-
scape around this country, and I
would again turn back to sports.into an apology. I think respect is
respect. I continue to be a believer
in diplomacy, and diplomacy
doesn’t necessarily mean that you
park your core values at the curb.
But it means showing sensitivity.”
He acknowledged the league had
been trying to thread a needle, es-
pecially early on. Maybe it had
been too careful. He understood
there are those who want the NBA
out of China, period. But the vol-
ume around the debate bothered
him.He slept very little
over there. Adam Silver
has been stateside for
a bit now, and yet the
timeline still feels
blurry, in the way it
can when you’re back from travel-
ing on the other side of the world.
He knew he didn’t do much sleep-
ing, as the NBA tried to diplomati-
cally ease its way out of an unex-
pected, contentious showdown
with China.
“I’m not a good sleeper to begin
with,” the 57-year-old basketball
commissioner admitted. The 12-
hour time difference between
Shanghai, where he had been, and
NBA HQ in New York City, meant
Silver was staying up late to talk
to advisers back in the U.S. “It
didn’t afford much of an opportu-
nity to sleep,” Silver said Monday,
in an interview from the NBA
league office.
He wasn’t looking for sympathy,
nor would he get any. He came
home, knocked around. The Lakers
and the Nets managed to play two
exhibition games in China, and yet,
everything else felt sideways. Their
host was simmering over a deleted
tweet in support of Hong Kong
protesters from Houston Rockets
GM Daryl Morey. Back in the U.S.,
the NBA was taking ferocious criti-
cism like it seldom ever had—Ted
Cruz and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
agreed on little, but they agreed
the NBA had bungled China.
Silver was at the bottom of the
pile-on, an unfamiliar spot. He’d
been “The Good Commissioner”—
the one who’d expelled Donald
Sterling; who gracefully navigated
between players and owners; who
seemed to have a preternatural
handle of the moment and mood.
Now Silver was being slammed as
a hypocrite—the
leader of a progres-
sive league which
had caved to au-
thoritarian pres-
sure when its busi-
ness was on the
line.
Criticism came
with the job, he got
that. But Silver
took issue with the
idea that the NBA
had abandoned its
principles; they’d
never apologized
for Morey’s tweet,
they’d stood behind
his right to expres-
sion, he said.
“I’ve never hid-
den from the fact
that we are also a
business, and that
many of the situa-
tions we’ve dealt with are highly
complex,” he said. “I’ve tried to
avoid playing politics and adhere
to our values. I felt in this case
that one of our core values, free-
dom of expression, was adhered
to.”
“But I would also say that one
[value] that seems to be used
against me is this notion of re-
spect. That’s always been one of
our core values. To show respect
for the people of China—to me,
that was then twisted and turned