Adam Silver isn’t easing into the new NBA season. He’s walking straight into the fire with a calm face and a full agenda. The commissioner’s 12th year on the job begins with everything from broadcast shakeups to betting controversies and expansion debates. But if there’s one constant, it’s that Silver never avoids tough conversations.

As he told Sports Illustrated and TODAY, the league’s challenges, from streaming confusion to team investigations, are all part of the job. “We will get to the bottom of it ,” he said about the Clippers’ salary cap probe, SI reports. That line sums up his approach perfectly: deliberate, transparent, and built on trust.

1. Silver Still Believes in Transparency

When the Clippers and owner Steve Ballmer were linked to an alleged cap circumvention scheme,

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