Transcript of Adam Silver Asked the NBA Question Nobody Wants to Answer | Alley Oop 187 New

Do you know by any chance what's inside those balloons? Like, what drug is inside of those balloons that they sell outside of Madison Square Garden? It's some sort of like— because they out of the balloons and then they get high and it's not helium.

Not helium. But we can guarantee ain't no damn helium in them.

It might be something people don't know about that. Like, that's a— you have to be in New York to see it. Like, what the hell kind of drugs outside the MSG in a balloon package?

But got Molly balloons.

Yeah, no doubt. It's like American Gangsta and Blue Magic.

How you doing, sis?

I'm good. I see that Spurs jersey on. By the time this episode airs, we will know whether you wore that as a good luck charm or as a bad omen. I'm hoping it was a good luck charm.

Game 7 on Sunday, baby. Lock it in, man. I'm already confirming it. What a game last night. The Spurs showed nothing but resilience, or they're out and they were ass.

Wemby, huge performance. Oh my God, just great rebounding from him. Didn't allow the moment to get too big.

Nope.

You know, it was really tough for, uh, tough one for De'Aaron Fox. That ankle is clearly still bothering him. Uh, Steph Castle though, what a game. Didn't turn the ball over much, right?

Apparently, I mean, only 5 this time, thank God. But speaking of them boys, man, Do you think— because it's how we're in the future— do you think the winner of this series is the foregone conclusion? Because what the Knicks done showed me is they don't give a damn about your conclusions nor your chest cavity. They're going through it.

Yeah, that's a tough question because I feel like, just like the Jets, yeah, and other teams like the Kings, yeah, it doesn't matter what I see on paper from you. Like the brand is the brand, right? And what we know about the brand of the Knicks that we basically just like put everything out of our minds, it's like, well, it's the Knicks, yeah, so they're gonna lose. Like, the Knicks are never getting over the hump. It's been since 1970, whatever, right? Enjoy your bing bong. Every time you guys think you climb a little higher, the fall is even further down. And like, we probably should have seen them being a Finals team. A lot of people thought that this You know, the favorites. They were the favorites to make the Eastern Conference Finals, the favorites to make the Finals out of the East.

Yeah.

And we were like, nah though, but like the Cavs and like also Boston and Tatum's back. And it's like, because it's the Knicks, right?

That's the only reason. Every time I see the Knicks win and they be outside, I always think of this specific guy. Whoever you are out there, salute to you, bro. Hey yo, KD, don't you wish you would've came to the Knicks? I got one question. Yo KD! KD! Bro, I think about that brother once a day in the playoffs. And because the, the harsh reality is, I think my boy wish he would have went to the Knicks.

I bet you that the Knicks don't wish that they would have gotten KD because you probably don't get to this place with KD. You only get to this place with Jalen Brunson. Jalen Brunson is the ultimate piece of the puzzle that you have. You see, have you ever played Minesweeper?

Oh yeah, yeah, I always lose. I don't know where that bomb is.

And you, you push that one button and then like 40 buttons. That's Jalen Brunson. You get Jalen Brunson and then it's OG Anunoby, Mikal Bridges, Carl Anthony Towns, Landry Shamet.

The ShamWow.

Josh Hart, AKA Alex Caruso. Alex East. Alex East with the headband. Another headband.

All right, salute to Dave too. I'm sure he happy about this, Dave East. But bruh, the Knicks fans are meeting the expectations. We thought that yes, if the Knicks get this far, the city is gonna need to close down roads, check. The city is gonna basically put up barricade, check already. Everything you thought was gonna happen from burning jerseys, lighting joints on the burnt Cavaliers jersey, smoking the cow patties.

Literally.

Right? Bro, it gotta be so much fun to be a New York Knicks fan, bro. You lived in New York for a little while.

I did. I lived right around the corner from MSG.

Bro, can you imagine still living there? Oh my God.

It's crazy. You walk around MSG after a game, you walk around there when it's good, and we were there for the first round of the Detroit series last year.

And I had this on.

And you had that jersey on. And that was— it was written that like the crowd goes insane. And they've got their little, uh, I don't know, do you know by any chance what's inside those balloons? Like, what drug is inside of those balloons that they sell outside of Madison Square Garden? It's some sort of like— because they out of the balloons and then they get high, and it's not helium.

Not helium. But we can guarantee ain't no damn helium in them. It might be something.

People don't know about that. Like, that's a— you have to be in New York to see it. Like, what the hell kind of, right, drugs outside the MSG in a balloon package?

But Molly balloons.

Yeah, no doubt. It's like American Gangsta and Blue Magic. Bumpy Johnson's out here selling fucking helium in the balloons, bro.

Do we got videos, man? The Knicks fans have been going crazy. I saw one brother waving the flag on Madison Square sign. I'm like, brother, if you don't get down— but then I remember, man, the cops can't even get to— bro, let it go. Let the flag fly. Either way it go, man, the Knicks It's just been so wonderful, brother, to see this and witness this. The joy in all my dead Knicks fans' eyes that I finally see. I think it's been worth it, man. My boy Mike from Queens, I'm gonna hit you up soon, bro, because my boy been going crazy, man.

It's like the fog of trauma, yeah, has been lifted. And you know the besmircher, how she feels. It's like Why don't you build me up, baby, just, just to let me down? Like, I, I feel that. I feel like, remember when it was Dallas and it was like, oh, Luka Magic, and they beat Shea and them, and it was like super exciting? And then all of a sudden you get to Boston and it's like, oh yeah, Luka, and it's like sweep, gentlemen, right? And it's like, oh damn, we really aren't close.

Oh wow, sheesh, right? Surprise, two Batmans.

Like, I feel like that will be the, the Spurs or the—

damn, bro, you know what I mean? Like, I'm choosing the Knicks, bro. I don't care, I'm taking the Knicks moving forward. I, I— my prediction at the beginning was I think Nuggets and Knicks in the championship. Boy, was I wrong on the Nuggets part. But man, I, I— for some reason I believe, bro, if OG is gonna be healthy If Mikal Bridges is going to have that look in his eyes because he finally started missing a couple of shots in the blowout game that they just won, bro, I think them boys are going to be a tough out, man.

No doubt. I think you're going to need some role players to come with it. And so I'm wondering about if you don't get those Landry Shamet shots and those aren't falling because Alex Caruso's putting his body, his elbow into your gonads, what do you have? Like if Jose Alvarado is not there If, if really it's just Jalen Brunson on an island, yeah, what's it gonna be? I hope we get 7. I want to see a 7-game Finals.

Yeah, like we saw last year, them first 2 games with the Hawks, I feel like was the last time we're gonna see them boys look that lackadaisical. Lackadaisical. Huh. In the comments, let me know, is it lackadaisical or lackadaisical? Either way it go, it ain't the Knicks. But, and you know who wasn't lackadaisical at the end of the game even though they got beat the other day? Wimby.

MB.

My boy got in the ears of Biz Back and my boy Mason Plumlee and said, take him out, you already know what to do. I want him dead.

I don't want your life, right?

Bring me his thumbs. And damn it, Mason Plumlee got in the game and said, you know what, bro, I got you. Elbow straight to my boy McCain Back. Yeah, yeah. And then McCain snitching during the postgame. I don't like— do you like snitching in the postgame?

Because I love snitching in the postgame.

That boy said, hey man, Plumlee told me at the free throw line I got more, right? I got more for you. Oh, whoa, officer, who asked you that? But I think it's, man, I think we seeing the evolution right now of Wimby's psyche, at least, because we saw him, he in the right place. The Monks KG, Bill Russell, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. He done worked with every single Shaolin star. Wu-Tang, 6 salute. But he ain't been had grown men put elbow to lower sternum so consecutively like they doing right now. He hasn't had grown men grabbing his jersey on purpose. He ain't had grown men saying, we don't give a damn. Yes, you're that And he going through it right now. So if they get it done, more credit. But at this point, I don't even blame them if they don't get it done, because look how far they've come on year 3 with Wemby.

I think Wemby, what we're seeing for him is the evolution of a mob boss.

Mm.

He realized that once he hit Nas Reed in the face with the elbow, that's a RICO charge.

Hiya!

You've already done it one time. Can't do it anymore. You need the underlings to handle the business for you so you can go, I don't know, all I said was get out there and have fun.

I like—

have fun, guys. And then they were like, oh, fun, fun, that's the code word, that's the code word for the streets, right, right.

Our code word in high school was our coach would be like, Drew, go for the ball.

I'd be like, oh, I'm going.

Yep, where you at, which one? But I think to that point though, I think that, uh, Mitch Johnson could stand to play a couple of more of those big guys just throughout the game. We don't need Little Olenek, you feel me? Pure jumper. Kelly Olenek, breaking news, I know he didn't wear socks that one game, but my boy is an NBA player this long, veteran style, team to team for a reason. You don't just stay in the league and go team to team if you ass.

Kelly Olenek is the Kevin Durant of Mason Plumlee.

Oh. Hold on, let me get that.

You see what I mean?

That was fire. Pure, pure from the— look, my sister, pure from Ark. Like that SGA in the mid-range, that's her, man. Yeah, bro, for sure. Because, bro, like I say, you don't just bounce team to team ass. Nobody even wants you, bro. Yeah, I saw what you did over here. All right, I saw what you did in Miami. Come put our jersey on. We need that. We need people in here to teach this brother right here. And I think that Give Kelly O'Leaney. If it ain't Kelly, give Luke, give, uh, Mason, give Biz Mack 2-3 minutes.

Biz Mack or Biz Back?

Biz Back? Is that what's his name?

Biz Mack.

She's like, no, no, no, it's Biz, it's Biz Mack.

No, it is.

I'm bringing Bizzy back, you feel me? You Got what I need. Yes, but my name is not Biz Beatback or whatever the hell, but I think they could stand to give my boy a little help from time to time just so he don't have to get all the Hardenstein elbows.

Well, yeah, I think what you do is just let that— you have 10 fouls between you two.

Use them all.

Use them, use them, use them on Hardenstein, use them on Chet. I'm not saying to hurt them, but go have fun out there.

And guess what else? They get 12. Use all 12 of them, you feel me? Exactly, bro. Use them all. And between, bro, I'm telling you, bro, because when they, uh, put that Hardenstein and Holmgren lineup out there, you already have someone out here guarding a 100-footer that shouldn't be. So let's just go ahead and— hey, bro, Biz, come use your 5. Matter of fact, Biz might be the last one off the bench. I ain't gonna hold you. Salute, Biz. You, you already know how I feel about you. I ain't know your name was Biz Mack. But at the same time, them other 3— Luke Kornet at least, bruh, because Luke has been rendered ass in this series. And you know how I feel about the Green Hornet. I mean, excuse me, pardon me, the Green Cornet.

But at the same time, okay, why do you think he's been so bad?

But I think he's not getting enough opportunities. He know that when he in the game, this is it. You only here for 2 seconds. So I feel like he's playing more tentative, or he needs more minutes.

Exactly. He needs to feel like, okay, I can make a couple of mistakes Yeah, when I give you that lob, that's what you're like, that's what the cornet's for, you feel me?

Because right now Spurs Twitter, NBA Twitter, they are trying to come up with reasons that they are seeing Luke on their TV screens in these big games. And I want to remind them, no, no, no, no, no, champion, NBA champion. Luke is fire. Remember during the season, he was hyping up, he put a kibosh to the Magic City night, but neither here nor there. I just think that He can give you more than he's giving you. Every big man on that roster— Keldon Johnson shouldn't be the only one out here running through chests. You feel me? Like, come on, bro. Especially we see how soft OKC is.

Where has Devin Vassell been?

Come on now.

I feel like I haven't heard his name at all.

At least in 2, 3 games. Yeah, 2 games at least.

2 games at least, right?

And my boy got hops. My boy gonna beat that shit out of bounds if you lay it up too late.

Dylan Harper, we need you to grow up too. Like, I don't mean emotionally, I mean just like physically be a man. Yeah, grow, grow some. Some strength and like show up because we've been— you've been awesome. People have been wanting, calling for De'Aaron Fox to be off this team because of you. Yeah. And how early you are on stage. Now that lights are bright, don't get blinded now.

Right.

Don't get blinded.

Don't get blinded by the ice now. Come on now. Where's your shine? Where's your bling bling, Dylan? Because last 2 weeks we were talking about you had the chain link under your shirt. It's time to pull it out, big dog, because them hot sauce and one crossovers in front of Kayson Wallace. That ain't gonna work, bro. He's one-on-one in the backcourt. He got Scooby Snatched for my boy. Yeah, you can't be getting ripped. It's the playoffs, but it's the off— and you getting ripped in the backcourt for 2? Uh-uh, bro. No, no, no, no. Even though you're a rookie, still you got to protect the only— the most important—

into him. Come on, post up in the half court.

How about something like my mic off? Put your butt into him. Wow, y'all heard it. She said it. Happy birthday to my sister too, by the way. Come on now, we're gonna roll out the, uh, the camouflage carpet for my sis. Happy birthday.

Thank you, thank you.

What's your plans this year for being one year older? What's your, what's your goal? Like, what do you want to be like next year? This time you're gonna be like, I ain't on that shit no more.

I want to make 5x what I make now, and I want my skin to look glowy when I wake up.

Tell them.

And I wanna not have a single nail break off my fingernail bed. So I want to be on my shit. I want to have my schedule aligned. Juju. Yeah, like not a single nail grows off and falls out in 2026, 2027.

You got to stop smacking these bitches across the face. Facts. What about Ollie? What's the plans for Ollie? Where you plan to be next year with Ollie?

Ollie needs more chains. He needs more outfits. He needs some jerseys. I want to get Ollie a brand deal for 2026, 2027. You hear that, ladies and gentlemen?

If you out there, NIL, my boy. You feel me? But yeah, man, how do you feel about just the discourse around Shea Gildress, Alexander, and the boys flopping their ass off, man? Now Adam Silver has taken to the Pat McAfee Show saying he thinks the officiating is all good. I think everything is going great. Soon we're gonna have AI officials one day, but for right now, I can't kiss Tony Brothers' ass more than I'm kissing it right now.

What does Tony Brothers have on Adam Silver, fam?

He got the files.

He got the files, fam. Because I think we're all— maybe, maybe I'm wrong. I'll ask you, are you getting to the point where I am, where I'm like, I'm kind of sick of this guy Adam Silver? Like, I like Rob Manfred more than I like Adam Silver.

Preach. And that's hard.

That's a tough one.

That is hard as hell because my boy been screwing up for years and Adam just got to the stage. But damn, bro, I thought you supposed— he came in and suspended Sterling, and then everything's been downhill from there. And we were like, oh, I like this.

We were like, oh, I like this.

Who's next? Yeah, nobody was next. My boy letting Wimby both folks in the face. Ha! No suspension, he good. No post-game interview for my boy Wimby. Ah, don't do it again. No fine, he's probably working through some shit. Is Adam Silver delusional, or is the AI referee situation a good idea?

Well, I saw that he is so online that he's listening to criticism at all times on Twitter. I think while the thought of that— I get like, okay, get an idea of what your customer base, how they're feeling about your product. Like, do we need— like, are we cutting— are we stepping on this too much now? Do we need to bring back a little more purity? Now it's like, oh People are dying. It's a little too pure. Holy moly. Maybe we need to add a little something something to it.

Penélope Cruz.

Exactly. A little Penélope Cruz situation. So I get all that, but you're making too many tweaks. Yeah, you need to make the changes, stand on the changes, let it, let it sizzle and marinate a little bit like you did the playing tournament. Yeah, we all were like, playing tournament, we fucking hate this. And it's like, ah, I kind of like the playing tournament. Yeah, let's try to just get it to a place where the league's in a set of stasis.

Yeah.

Before you start talking about, oh yeah, no, we're putting an NBA team in Paris.

All right, bro, shut up, bro. Shut up. Stop talking. Somebody cut him out. Is he got a PR person? Because they need to step in on Adam.

The expansion's on the way. It'll be in Vegas. Is Vegas a good idea? Like, I feel like Seattle's kind of the idea, you know what I mean?

Exactly.

Oh yeah, like this Dundon guy, we don't care that he's cheap. He's a billionaire. It's like, I, I don't think Adam Silver has good enough advice.

Yeah, yeah, for sure. Because like you say, it— there's rarely a time in a basketball game that the fans get more excited outside of Portland when any shot goes in than when these magic words are said: who wants a t-shirt?

Yeah.

Oh, what the fuck?

I think Game 7. Game 7, who wants a t-shirt? In that order, bruh.

Grown-ass men knocking kids over. I don't give a damn. Let me get that shirt that just says Thunder on it.

Listen, there's a reason that when that t-shirt launcher comes out, people lose their goddamn minds. They're pushing people out of the way. That shirt is an extra extra large. It is, it is translucent. You can see that man's nipples underneath, but goddamn It says Spurs, right?

Okay, I'm talking about you wash that motherfucker one time, the sleeves never are the same. One of them is short.

It literally has the collar wavy when you get it. They've literally put it into a ball and put it through a cannon, and they're like, yo, I want that, I need that, I will kill a kid for that, bro.

Like them Knicks shirts we got last year for going to the game, one wash, unwearable. But hey, I would have died for that shirt that day. You see me, I was taking them to the other chair. Oh, anybody sitting here? Get this from the girl.

You need the towel and the shirt. Come on now, towel playoffs and the shirt, right?

We ain't talking practice, we ain't talking game 37 of the season, we talking about the offs and we're in Portland. Let's crank this thing up. But hey man, Adam Silver, I don't trust you to get it together, but I'm gonna give you some grace because them boys out there playing their ass off right now, man. The league right now I think is in one of the best places it's been And sometimes— you agree with that?

Yeah, I do.

Yeah, outside of the officiating, outside of our childhood, right, right.

You know, the whole thing, that was the peak, right? 1999, right?

Cash Money Records was about to take over at that point for the '99 and the 2000. Yeah, it did. But at the same time, my only solution and advice to Adam is, bruh, Before we do all this computer technology, AI stuff that we're going to need billions of dollars to spend on, how about let's just, let's just shape these rules a little bit better. Stop giving folks 2 challenges and expect them to not have no more say-so, even though y'all got the 2 calls wrong.

You know what? That may be one of the things in basketball that I just allowed without thinking. Really? Like, no, that's bullshit. Yeah, that'd be like if you got into an argument with your girl and you're like, tell her 2 things that she did wrong, and she's like, yeah, I did do those wrong, upon further review you're correct. And then you do another one, upon further review you're correct, but no more, Juju, you can't call me on my bullshit no more. It's like, no, you're on some bullshit. Clearly I'm 2 for 2 until I get one wrong. I get to keep going.

Keep going, bro, because you're the one out of pocket, not me.

I'm just trying to keep us in some sort of place of accuracy, and I'm just correcting you and being like, actually, the ball went out on Chet's foot, right?

You feel me? Come on now. And bruh, flopping itself, if you're gonna call the foul and Shea or whoever to chase Jay Williams, gross. I thought you would— you remind me of, uh, Future a little bit out there with the dreads living life. I was like, I messed with my boy from Arkansas, hard-nosed player. Running into my boy Keldon Johnson, just falling down, bro. Hell nah, uh-uh. We need to institute, bruh, we gonna review this play. If they, if they want to challenge it, we reviewing it. And if we saw a flop— oh, on top of that, their ball, free throws. Yes, come on.

That's what I was just about to say is is that should be like a take foul. That should be like, uh, when it's a side out of bounds play and you grab somebody when they don't have the ball. A flop is that egregious, right, bruh?

Especially if y'all ain't gonna use the rule which you instill. I ain't seen a referee do this once.

One free throw, possession.

Exactly.

And until y'all can get this right, If OKC had to give up one free throw and possession every time Shay flopped, I bet you that would be the quickest thing for Shay not to flop.

I'm about to lose by 20.

Come on, come on. 17 of those free throws, or we'll call it he goes 16 for 17 or 15 for 16. Yeah, 8 of those free throws were flops.

Uh-huh.

So that's 4 flops, 8 free throws, and you're won by 4. Yep. And you won by 4. Bam!

You did. Come on, man, we winning by a hundo every week. And that's gonna do it for another episode of the Alley. Oh man, thank you. Thanks as always to Miss Rebecca and our brother Dylan. Man, any words on the way out of here, sis?

Just a great game by Wemby. I just really appreciate his bounce-back performance from Game 5 to Game 6. I'm just really looking for game— looking for Game 7. Forward to Game 7.

And also, bro, the Thunder back-to-back championships, man. Here they are. You did— they did it last night. We love y'all, man. Without y'all, who the hell are we? Catch us again this Tuesday at DLS Hoops on YouTube. Go to theallyoopshow.com. Mess with the kids, man. We mess with y'all. Lock in, lock in.

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