March 16, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver Coming to Rotary
This will be a SPECIAL MONDAY PROGRAM. Adam Silver (born April 25, 1962) is an American lawyer and the commissioner of the National Basketball Association. He has held this post since February 1, 2014.
Before joining the NBA, he served as a litigation associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, a law firm in New York, and worked as a law clerk to Judge Kimba Wood, a federal judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Silver began working for the NBA in 1992. Before assuming his current role, Silver held the positions of special assistant to the commissioner, NBA chief of staff, senior vice president of NBA Entertainment, and president of NBA Entertainment. Silver was an executive producer of the IMAX movie Michael Jordan to the Max, as well as the TNT documentary Whatever Happened to Micheal Ray? He also worked on the production side of Like Mike and Year of the Yao.