NBA commissioner Adam Silver has heard your "small market" NBA Finals talk , and wants to make clear that he, for one, is unconcerned. If anything, such a matchup—the Oklahoma City Thunder vs. the Indiana Pacers—demonstrates the success of the league's CBA in creating parity among teams.

Speaking on Fox Sports 1's Breakfast Ball on Wednesday, Silver used an apt—and extremely timely—NFL comparison to call out how the markets involved in a Finals shouldn't matter at all.

"If we were going into a Super Bowl and it was Packers against Steelers, you guys would be celebrating that," Silver said. "Those would be storied franchises. People wouldn't be talking about the fact that Pittsburgh is a small market. I'm happy whatever team ends up in the Finals, but it's been intentional from our st

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