Adam Silver is the fifth and current commissioner of the National Basketball Association. He joined the NBA in 1992 and has held various positions within the league. Silver made headlines in 2014 for forcing Donald Sterling to sell the Los Angeles Clippers after Sterling made racist remarks. Silver received international attention for his neutral positioning of the NBA during the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests.
About Adam Silver in brief
Adam Silver is the fifth and current commissioner of the National Basketball Association. He joined the NBA in 1992 and has held various positions within the league, becoming chief operating officer and deputy commissioner under his predecessor and mentor David Stern in 2006. Silver made headlines in 2014 for forcing Donald Sterling to sell the Los Angeles Clippers after Sterling made racist remarks. Silver also received international attention for his neutral positioning of the NBA during the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests. Silver was born into a Jewish-American family and grew up in Rye, New York, a northern suburb of New York City in Westchester County. He attended Rye High School and graduated in 1980.
Silver went to Duke University and majored in political science. He graduated in 1984 with a Bachelor of Arts degree, then worked for one year as a legislative aide to Les AuCoin, who was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1975 to 1993. Silver then attended the University of Chicago Law School, graduating in 1988 with a J. D. degree. After law school, Silver clerked for a year for Judge Kimba Wood of the United States District Court for the Southern District of NewYork. He then joined the law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore as an associate. Prior to becoming commissioner, Silver was the NBA’s Deputy Commissioner and Chief Operating Officer for eight years.
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