If you are Adam Silver right now, which of these is more prominent in your mind?

The NBA’s gangbusters TV ratings, the best the playoffs have seen since ABC started carrying the league?

Or that the league’s three biggest stories right now do not include the conference finals?

Between super-prospect Victor Wembanyama being ticketed to the Spurs, Ja Morant getting himself into gun-related trouble again and the unknown future of the Warriors, the actual playoffs feel a little bit crowded out of the conversation.