NBA commissioner Adam Silver has always maintained that he is open to discussing potential changes, even radical ones. Silver cares about tradition, and he hasn't spent the last 10-plus years implementing weird gimmicks, but dating back to his first Board of Governors meeting on the job, he has wanted the league to be able to adapt when necessary.

Nuggets coach Michael Malone slammed Adam Silver’s idea of shedding two minutes off each quarter, a move the commissioner floated in a radio interview in hopes of appeasing the shorter attention span of modern TV viewers.