Adam Silver: Free agency market rewards competence

Photo by David Dow/NBAE via Getty ImagesIn praising the Nets and throwing just a little shade at their crosstown rivals, Adam Silver on Tuesday said he’s not concerned about the rise of superteams in big markets. Competence, he says, ruled the day.

It’s not about super teams, the commissioner said after the NBA Board of Governors meeting. It’s about knowing how to run a sports franchise in the modern era.

“I think you have unique circumstances with those players and those teams,” Silver noted. “But I think it speaks to the fact that the significance of these brands, the fact that the Nets and Clippers have put themselves in position over the last few years to be attractive to top free agents.…