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Adam Silver has become the gold standard.

The NBA commissioner hasn’t been around long, but he’s everything Roger Goodell wants to be when he grows up (Roger can’t get out of his knickers).

Even if you pay little or no attention to the NBA — which isn’t hard to do until the final minutes of the seventh game of the Finals — you must be aware of the dust-up between Charles Oakley and Knicks owner Jim Dolan in Madison Square Garden. It exacerbated due to its location.


Silver did not hide or make the case federal. Put his wingtip down. Diffused it. Bud nipped.

He summoned Oakley and Dolan (one of Adam’s bosses) to his office and, with Michael Jordan (for some reason) on the phone, patched the hole.

There was no Deflategate. Dolan, one of the worst owners in sports who hasn’t moved a franchise, obviously crumbled. Oakley now is welcome back at the Garden.

It’s how minor manure should be handled. This is not how Goodell operates, obvious after (for one) he botched the untangling of the unnecessary hairpull between the Patriots, Brady and The League over a bit of air pressure in footballs. He fined the team. He suspended Brady four games. He took away a draft choice.


If this had happened, say, to the Giants, Goodell might have been canned. But the other owners obviously don’t feel that sorry for Pats owner Bob Kraft, whose franchise and coach they have convicted of cheating.

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell (left) and Chargers owner Dean Spanos shake hands during the Los Angeles Chargers Kickoff Ceremony at the The Forum last month. (Kirby Lee / USA Today Sports)

Deflategate deserved a wrist slap, nothing more. But Goodell flexed a bicep that since has deflated.

For two: A real NFL commissioner — and there hasn’t been one since Pete Rozelle — would have jumped into the icy Chargers Stadium Thing’s waters without a wetsuit. The Judases’ move after 56 years in one city is unprecedented in the history of football.


Instead, Roger insisted he and The League worked it’s rear end off to keep the team here. A total, complete crock of crap. Billionaires stumbled over themselves to get (for them) chump change in relocation fees and allowed the Judases an “in” after giving the Rams L.A.

Deano would have buckled.

City Hall, the Spanoses, Goodell and the owners, The Spineless Quartet, are to blame.

Roger and his bosses botched it. Goodell The Invertebrate has made owners money, but a whole lot of people can make them money. This should be a pox on his/their house and it should not be allowed to just disappear into the Inglewood smog.


Silver, who even is smart enough to openly admit gambling is important to the health of professional sports, might have done something more than make a weak service with his lip.

Maybe the NFL bosses should tell Goodell, as Mr. Peterman told Elaine: “Thanks, Roger, for a job … done.”

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CenturyLink Field, the Seahawks’ house, seats 67,000 and also serves as home for the MLS Sounders (who average 42,000 a game). So why must a soccer stadium here hold 30,000? Hey, just asking. …


Jim Brown is convinced the Browns will be good next year. So he IS planning a comeback. …

Magic Johnson: “I didn’t want Larry Bird on my team. I wanted to beat him.” Got that, LeBron? …

Russell Westbrook is hunting Oscar Robertson, which means he’s chasing Secretariat in the Belmont. ...

Has the NBA ever had an MVP who didn’t start an All-Star Game? Westbrook is the best player in the world. Period. …


POTUS Trump will break tradition and not fill out an NCAA Tournament bracket. Fake and rigged. …

The NFL tells Houston it must make stadium improvements to get another Super Bowl. It’s 15 forsaken years old! ...

Bill Johnston, San Diego Chargers publicist since 1990 and with the PR department since ’79, will not join the Judases in L.A. Bill’s wife Ramona long has suffered from insidious Huntington’s Disease, and Bill has devoted his life to her and tirelessly worked to find a cure. He doesn’t feel comfortable moving Ramona north. So sad to see good people being affected by a pure act of greed. A better person than most people I know. …

Being King doesn’t automatically grant you diplomatic immunity, Dunlap. ...


If Darrelle Revis really were his own island, he’d get the charges dropped. …

Don’t forget the Rockets, born in San Diego, also moved, to Houston. They’re celebrating their 50th anniversary and Friday will honor an original San Diego Rocket (and still a San Diegan), Don Kojis. Terrific player, good guy and All-Star. …

When owner Bob Breitbard traded Kojis to Seattle for cash, coach Alex Hannum, unaware of the deal, famously said: “Cash? Who’s Cash? Can he get me 20 points a game?” …

If Columbus went to Duke, the world still would be flat. ...


Ice Cube says he doesn’t want San Diego sending L.A. anymore of its “trash.” How can Ice see trash through the trash? ...

Where have “atmospheric rivers” been all my life? …

Adele, that poor Grammy. Not even Kramer broke his Tony in half. …

I have met the enemy, and it is me! Kinda cool. ...


“Resigned” Baylor Athletic Director Ian McCaw is now AD at Liberty, which is moving from FCS to FBS independent. “Give me Liberty or give me the death penalty!” ...

Other great battle cries of history: “Remember the Alamo!” “Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!” “Nuts!” “Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!” “WE WILL FIGHT FOR L.A.!”


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