The in-season tournament was supposed to be an experiment. Somewhere along the way, it turned into the Emirates NBA Cup, a trophy players care about, fans are warming up to, and TV networks can sell in the dead of winter.
Now Adam Silver sounds ready to level it up again.
Before the Knicks closed out the Spurs for this year’s Cup, Silver went on Amazon’s broadcast and floated the idea of future NBA Cup championship games being played in “some storied college arenas.”
There’s a building in Lexington that fits that description a little too well.