The Orchestrator
Scaling people and moving parts into one working whole.
Adam Silver reads as The Orchestrator because running the NBA means holding a permanent tension between thirty franchise owners, hundreds of players, global broadcast partners, and a merchandise and media ecosystem spanning continents.
“Transitioning from law into a medium at the time having written the letter not even thinking about working at the MBA or understanding that this was something I could do at the MBA. Make a long story short. He gave me... You know, this is pre email. I wrote him a letter, an old fashioned letter.”
“Yeah, absolutely. By the way, we have three female referees right now. And I think it's an area, frankly, where I've acknowledged that I'm not sure how it was that it remained so male dominated for so long because it's an area of the game where physically certainly there's no benefit to being a man as opposed to a woman when it comes to r…”
“Absolutely. Watches, and that's why I got to make sure that WMBA prospers. My wife is tall, I'm tall, she watches basketball games with me, and I may get some tips from our other coach Kay here in the audience. And I would love to coach her one day. She loves the game.”
“So the steaks, it's hard, I think, if you were that parent or guardian to say to that player, it's more important that you go to three more classes as opposed to preparing for such a critically important decision. I think that's where the hypocrisy lies.”
The David Rubenstein Show: “Adam Silver”
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