NBA Is Likely To Re-Examine Domestic Violence Policy

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From today's WSJ:

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver Says League is Studying What's Happening in the NFL

NBA commissioner Adam Silver said Monday that the NFL's high-profile domestic-violence incidents would likely prompt him to re-examine the basketball league's policy regarding such cases.



"We're studying everything that's been happening in the NFL, and we're working with our players' association. We've been talking for several weeks, and we're going to take a fresh look at everything we do," said Silver, speaking at league-sponsored event on Staten Island, N.Y.



Silver said he hadn't spoken with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell concerning the Ray Rice or Adrian Peterson cases.



"I'm in no position to give him advice," said Silver, who took over the NBA in the middle of the last season. "But I do learn from what they're going through. We have a lot of relationships with their office, and we're studying, just like they are, to make sure these mistakes don't happen again."



Silver said he was optimistic that the NBA could make necessary changes to its own player-conduct policy with a new executive director, attorney Michele Roberts, overseeing the players' association.



Separately, Silver—best known thus far for his decision to issue a lifetime ban to former Clippers owner Donald Sterling after Sterling's racist, privately recorded remarks became public—said he wasn't interested in sifting through the closets of NBA owners to find potentially damaging material.



Atlanta Hawks controlling owner Bruce Levenson recently announced his intent to sell his stake in the club after self-reporting to the league a racially charged email he sent to team executives back in 2012.



Silver also spoke about Atlanta general manager Danny Ferry, who earlier this month took a leave of absence from the team after making derogatory racial comments about forward Luol Deng during a free-agency conference call with other Hawks executives.



"Danny wisely stepped away to remove himself from the situation," said Silver, in an apparent reversal from a few weeks ago, when he said he didn't feel Ferry's mistake was a fireable offense.