{"id":35158,"date":"2026-06-24T00:51:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T00:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/24\/nba-draft-2026-why-do-fans-boo-adam-silver\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T00:51:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T00:51:04","slug":"nba-draft-2026-why-do-fans-boo-adam-silver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/24\/nba-draft-2026-why-do-fans-boo-adam-silver\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Draft 2026: Why do fans boo Adam Silver?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>June 23, 2026, 1:01 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">It&#8217;s the sound you might hear from the crowd at Brooklyn&#8217;s Barclay&#8217;s Center on Tuesday night at the NBA Draft: BOOOOO!<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">As in, boos for Adam Silver, the commissioner of the NBA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Why is that? Why does any <a href=\"https:\/\/ftw.usatoday.com\/2023\/04\/why-do-fans-boo-nfl-commissioner-roger-goodell-during-the-nfl-draft\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">commissioner of any league get booed?<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">For some commissioners, some of it has to do with decisions they&#8217;ve made that have angered fans. Maybe <a href=\"https:\/\/ftw.usatoday.com\/2021\/03\/nba-all-star-game-fans-rip-adam-silver-joel-embiid-ben-simmons-news\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">that&#8217;s true of Silver too<\/a>, but the more likely explanation is: It&#8217;s tradition for a commissioner to be booed at the draft! His predecessor, David Stern, used to lean into it, which was always a lot of fun.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">So, if you hear boos on Tuesday, you know why.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 23, 2026, 1:01 p.m. ET It&#8217;s the sound you might hear from the crowd at Brooklyn&#8217;s Barclay&#8217;s Center on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_animmysite_disable_animation":false,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/gcdn\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/06\/20\/SFTW\/90630788007-usatsi-28249311.jpg?crop=8639,4861,x0,y449&width=3200&height=1801&format=pjpg&auto=webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending-sports-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}