Prior to the Suns’ season opener on Wednesday, a 107–105 victory over the Mavericks, NBA commissioner Adam Silver apologized multiple times to employees of the Phoenix organization for the league’s handling of owner Robert Sarver over the years, according to a report from ESPN’s Baxter Holmes.
“I’m incredibly empathetic to what many of you have lived through,” Silver reportedly told a gathering of hundreds of employees, including team executives and interim governor Sam Garvin, per ESPN.
Silver went on to apologize and take responsibility for the extent that the employees “feel let down by the league.