Adam Silver Marches In NYC Pride Parade

Today is National Pride Day and one of the biggest parades is held in New York city, where NBA commissioner Adam Silver and deputy commissioner Mark Tatum were on hand to show support for the LGBT community. The NBA is the first professional sports league to partake in the Pride Parade.

Wearing an #OrlandoUnited t-shirt to show support for the victims of the gruesome attack at an Orlando LGBT club earlier this month, Silver’s appearance at the parade furthered the NBA’s public support of LGBT equality. In the past year, Silver suspended Rajon Rondo when he hurled a homophobic slur at openly gay referee Bill Kennedy (who also marched in the parade) and has left the door open for the NBA to move the 2017 All-Star Game out of Charlotte, NC due to the state’s “bathroom law,” which requires transgender people to use the public bathroom that corresponds to the gender on their birth certificate.

Via NBA Cares