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NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said that the league's strained relationship with China will "ultimately cost it hundreds of millions of dollars -- though not billions, as some initially speculated the controversy would." Silver yesterday in Chicago gave his "educated estimate" at his annual state-of-the-league address during All-Star Weekend. Half of the questions he took "addressed the fallout from Rockets GM Daryl Morey's infamous tweet." Silver cautioned that the "true impact on the league's revenue won't be known until after the postseason." But that impact "will be, and already has been, significant" (SPORTS.YAHOO.com, 2/15).
Meanwhile, the carriage dispute between Altitude TV and Comcast that has kept thousands of Nuggets fans in Colorado and the surrounding region from watching games is "firmly on the NBA's radar." Silver said, "It's a bad situation for everyone." Silver added the league's involvement in the dispute "has been to be helpful to both sides." NBA President of Global Content & Media Distribution Bill Koenig said that he and others in the league office will "increase their efforts coming out of the All-Star break in an effort to help facilitate a resolution that could put the games back on TV in the region" (THEATHLETIC.com, 2/15).
