Adam Silver has given his ideas on the commerce requests of NBA stars Damian Lillard and James Harden.

The pairs requests to be traded got here months in the past however they nonetheless haven’t gotten to their desired respective locations – Miami and Los Angeles.

The rumors and hypothesis have been rife and on Wednesday morning throughout a press convention, Silver was requested about what he thinks of the commerce requests.

“By way of commerce calls for, after all don’t like them,” Silver mentioned. “As a league, we would like gamers and groups to honor their contracts. I’m watching each the state of affairs in Portland and Philadelphia, and hope they get labored out to the satisfaction of everybody earlier than the season begins. I’m glad that issues appear to have settled down considerably, at the least by way of public discourse.”

Former Clippers gamers JJ Redick shared an fascinating perspective on the Harden commerce saga just lately.

“I do assume with Harden, and this isn’t a knock on Harden in any respect, I do assume the commerce market proper now isn’t… A lot of the NBA is timing,” Redick mentioned on The Outdated Man and The Three. “The timing of whenever you hit free company, which groups have cap house, so free company could be very related for my part to the commerce market. You don’t know in the event you’re a participant going into free company, if you’ll have a strong free company market.”

When gamers begin to make commerce requests to particular franchises, it will possibly make issues a little bit bit difficult as these groups could not have the belongings wanted to accumulate a participant of Harden or Lillard’s stature.

As for Lillard, commerce talks between Miami and Portland are reportedly ramping up as soon as extra.

Coaching camp is sort of upon us, so if the pair need to get issues sorted earlier than then, they’re working out of time.