Adam Silver says fans who can’t afford streaming services to watch NBA games can still watch free highlights, calling the NBA a “highlight sport.”

36 comments

1. What a shitty answer.

2. Continuing to price out the actual fans is the fastest way to kill your product.

3. Yoo hoo sailor under a black flag life is for me!

4. Most of us only watch highlights to begin with but good luck growing your game.

   I still love the playoffs but my NBA interest has plummeted since I lost my ability to watch my home team.

5. Adam “Marie Antoinette” Silver

6. Uh, I’m not sure I’d want him saying that if I were one of the broadcast partners. A little bit of a yikes response

7. I’m sure the NBA would be excited at the revenue lost because people don’t tune into 3-hour games and instead watches the 7:30 highlights

8. He’s talking about r/nba

9. He looks very much like a lizard today.

10. We can also still afford to stream it illegally

11. NBA needs a reincarnation of Stern lol

12. does he WANT to kill his product? bro must be out of touch because does he not realize all the highlights that get posted are just the same 3 highlights per game?

13. Bro is literally encouraging to sail the high seas

14. This weeks highlights were that the salary cap doesn’t matter. This is a game for billionaires to make more money. Not for the fans. 

15. Insane take.

16. A commissioner who basically says he doesn’t care about fans being able to watch every game and to catch the highlights instead is crazy lmfao

17. lmao fuck you! we just want access to games, less commercials/gambling bullshit, less talking head clownshows—not more subscriptions/headache otherwise we sail the high seas fool

18. The NBA is the exact opposite of a “highlight sport”. It’s a big reason there hasn’t been a successful version of RedZone for the NBA what is Silver smoking

19. Just make the quarters 30 seconds long I guess. NBA games will now be reels and we will like it

20. Pirates Ahoy!

21. If it’s a highlight based sport then what incentive is there for fans to watch full games or even go to games????

22. NBA fans who only watch highlights are the worst kind of fans…

23. Getting too big for your britches big dawg. 

    The poors prop up viewership and you are pricing them out. 

24. Odd for the commissioner of a sport to say you don’t need to actually watch it.

    I’m sure his broadcast partners are happy to hear fans don’t need to watch what they just paid billions for

25. Adam Silver is a shitty commissioner with no spine. His term cant end soon enough

26. That might be the single most pathetic answer I have ever heard in my life. You are the goddamn commissioner sir, it’s your job to get people watching the whole game, not just catching the highlights. Does this dude even watch the games, I would bet he doesn’t after hearing this answer.

27. Thats a concerning answer

28. bruh i wanna watch the fucking game. this guy sucks.

29. Why would you admit that?

30. Are you fucking joking 

31. Damn fuck this guy, what a shitty direction for the game of basketball

32. Fuck you, Adam. You’re ruining the sport.

33. Silver is honestly such an inept, and spineless commissioner.

34. I guess we shouldn’t buy tickets to the games then and wait for the highlights.

35. NBA: “If you’re poor, you don’t need to watch the games!”

    Also NBA: “Why are the ratings down?!?”

36. It’s actually hard to explain how mad this response makes me