Appearing on Thursday's episode of The Pat McAfee Show, Silver explained the Mavs "aren't going anywhere" because they are trying to build a new arena in Dallas and there were no "ulterior motives" behind the move to send Dončić to the Los Angeles Lakers.

As Silver mentioned, David Stern's incident blocking a trade that would have sent Chris Paul to the Los Angeles Lakers, teaming up with Kobe Bryant, happened because he was the "acting owner" of the New Orleans Pelicans, not because he was the commissioner at the time.

NBA commissioner Adam Silver shut down the idea that the Mavericks' ownership wants to move the team to Las Vegas.