Adam Silver on super-teams: ‘Don’t think it’s good for the league’ (Ball Don’t Lie)

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver speaks before Game 1 of the 2016 NBA Finals. Kevin Durant's decision to join the Golden State Warriors in free agency, adding one of the very best basketball players in the world to a star-studded core fresh off winning an NBA-record 73 games and coming within a few minutes of back-to-back NBA titles, has led many observers to all but crown the Warriors as next year's champions and decry what they perceive as an inevitable elimination of competitive balance throughout the league. While commentators' anger has tended to focus on Durant for choosing to join the Warriors rather than staying with the Oklahoma City Thunder and attempting to beat them, some have also turned their attention to the NBA itself, wondering how a team that already employs the two-time reigning Most Valuable Player and two highly paid All-Stars could also be allowed to pony up a max deal for Durant without running afoul of salary-cap restrictions … and wondering whether maybe the rules should be changed to prevent such super-powered team-ups in the future.