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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; Adam Silver\u00A0and\u00A0David Stern worked together in the league office for more than two decades. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Former NBA commissioner\u00A0David Stern said he is proud of the job that his successor Adam Silver is doing.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Silver, 52, was the league's deputy commissioner for almost eight years, before being taking over for Stern on Feb. 1.\u00A0He also was the\u00A0president of NBA Entertainment and\u00A0NBA chief of staff under Stern, who ran the league for 30 years.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Silver made headlines this week when he banned Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling for life and fined him $2.5 million for making racist comments. Silver has called on the league's owners to vote to terminate Sterling's ownership of the team.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\"He and I worked together for 22 years. I told everyone he was going to be great at his job and I'm delighted to see that I was right,\" Stern said, via the &lt;em&gt;Wall Street Journal&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;According to the report,\u00A0Stern is now consulting with\u00A0digital companies and is interested in building global brands related to\u00A0sports, gaming and gambling.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\"Everyone's interested in competition it seems. And I have a bit of experience in that department,\" he said.&lt;strong&gt;SI.COM STAFF: Playoff roundtable: Who should be the next owner of the Los Angeles Clippers?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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