NBA commissioner Adam Silver told Yahoo Sports’s Vincent Goodwill he wished the Ben Simmons-James Harden trade had been handled differently.
In one of the biggest—and most public—trades in recent memory, the commissioner told Goodwill he would have wanted the blockbuster deal to happen more privately.
“I accept that there will always be conversations behind closed doors, when teams are unhappy, or players are unhappy, [but] the last thing you want to see is for these issues to play out publicly,” Silver said. “One of the things that I continue to do in my role is to think about ways we can improve the system.”
