New NBA commish Silver continues his Milwaukee Bucks veiled threat tour

access_time personNeil deMause

So it looks like NBA commissioner-to-be Adam Silver has decided to make stumping for a new Milwaukee Bucks arena a full-time job, for this week at least. Following his speech last week to Bucks sponsors — for which the team brought in a local business writer to transcribe Silver’s statements to a broader audience — Silver conducted a video interview for the Bucks’ website in which he elaborated on why he thinks Milwaukee needs to replace the 25-year-old Bradley Center:

“Milwaukee’s important (to the NBA) because it speaks ‘America,'” Silver said. “It’s heartland of America. It’s a community where the NBA has had a 45-year tradition. It’s a community that’s always strongly supported the NBA, and it’s part of our footprint, and it’s part of our heritage. It’s critical to us that the team remain here and remain successful.”

In other words, it’d be a shame if anything was to happen to those paratroopers.

Note that Silver has still carefully avoided appearing anywhere that he’d actually have to answer questions from real journalists, so he’s gotten all the headlines about Milwaukee being “on the clock” for a new arena without actually having to explain what would happen if the clock were to run out. Yeah, this Silver guy has got the hang of the job already.

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5 comments on “New NBA commish Silver continues his Milwaukee Bucks veiled threat tour”

  1. The NBA now has an NFL leverage style of city in Seattle like the NFL has Los Angeles. Milwaukee doesn’t pony up, then Seattle is waiting right there to take the team off their hands. It’s quite smart on the NBA’s part as Milwaukee has been a dismal franchise since 2001 when they made the Eastern Conference Finals against Philadelphia. At the end of the day, we’ll see what happen but I won’t be shocked if the Bucks become the new SuperSonics.

  3. Hansen never bid a cent over $400M of his actual cash for the Kings. I doubt he can afford an NBA team at the going rates.

  5. All I’ve read this year about the Bucks is failed arena proposals after another after the school board got screwed over with terrible investments. I expect that they will move to Seattle & Seattle will get a NHL team too.

    Sure, the Bucks had history, but how many championships did the Lakers win before moving to LA? Did you ever think the Yankees would demolish the house that Ruth built? History isn’t meaningless, but it doesn’t hold as much value as people think…

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