Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. NBA Commissioner Adam Silver on Wednesday defended the discipline handed down to Phoenix Suns team owner Robert Sarver and said he did not "have the right" to take the team away.
Silver faced calls to increase the discipline on Sarver in a fashion he similarly did with former Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling.
Silver forced Sterling to sell the team after racist remarks were caught on a leaked tape. "I don’t have the right to take away his team.
I don’t want to rest on that legal point because of course there could be a process to take away someone’s team in this league," Silver said. "It’s very involved, and I ultimately made the decision that it didn’t rise to that level.