Exclusive: Adam Silver on winning the Edison Achievement Award: 'Sports remind us that some of the most important forms of innovation are human'

Exclusive: Adam Silver on winning the Edison Achievement Award: 'Sports remind us that some of the most important forms of innovation are human'

If you look at Adam Silver’s background, you wouldn’t think he’d eventually come to lead the NBA, nor bring it to be the massive marketing and media powerhouse it is today. The son of a labor lawyer, he grew up in Rye, New York, editing at his high school newspaper and running cross country. He studied political science at Duke University, clerked for a federal judge, and then made partner at a major New York law firm. None of that would have sc…