On Leadership: A gold leadership moment for Adam Silver

He stood there tall and thin, a bald man with a quiet intensity, choosing his few words carefully and speaking them forcefully. They were authoritative and decisive: "personal outrage," "personally distraught" and, perhaps most important of all, "I apologize." They expressed a sense of character that we don't see enough from professional sports leaders, and they mattered because they were needed -- by the players, by the fans, by the NBA -- at a time when the clear ugliness of racism demanded a ...