It seems a small matter, the NBA expected to move up the start of its annual moratorium on free-agent negotiations.
If approved, such dialogue will begin June 30 at 6 p.m Eastern time.
It used to start July 1 at midnight.
This was commissioner Adam Silver on the proposed change: “I heard from several teams, ‘Does this really have to be at midnight?’ It’s one of those things that everybody looks at each other and says, ‘Why has it always been that way?’ It’s unclear. … I think we’re past that.”
It’s another way of saying his league has evolved.