Adam Silver Talks NBA Refs, Chris Bosh and 2017 All-Star Game in B/R Exclusive

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver has heard the grumbling about officiating and the lack of satisfaction in the league’s Last Two Minute reports, but he believes his nascent transparency push is working in its current iteration. 

“The ultimate issue is the integrity of the league,” Silver said Sunday in an interview with Bleacher Report Radio’s NBA Sunday Tip. “For fans and for teams, to the extent that the referees get something wrong or, for that matter, get it right, they want to understand why. There’s usually a team on both sides of those calls. Part of it is the acknowledgement when a call is wrong, the explanation of why the call was wrong.”

In their second season, Last Two Minute reports offer insight into every referee decision in games where the margin is five points or less (including overtimes). 

Opinion on the reports has differed in some circles. Some have applauded Silver for his ongoing push for transparency. The commissioner told B/R Radio these reports are merely an extension of a practice that used to go on behind the scenes; it’s now just available for all teams (and the public). 

“All we’re really doing now is making formal and public a process that’s always existed,” Silver said. “It was just anecdotal and informal, which made me very uncomfortable.”

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One of the major issues with the Last Two Minute reports is the other 46 minutes when no public evaluation is given. Dwyane Wade and LeBron James were both publicly critical of the practice in April, saying the league should offer full-game …

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