OKLAHOMA CITY — In the entirety of David Stern’s 30-year tenure as the NBA’s commissioner, eight different franchises won a championship.

Adam Silver is in Year 12 of his run overseeing the league — and a ninth different franchise is about to win a title on his watch.

The parity era in the league is not new, and it most certainly lives on this year, with either the Oklahoma City Thunder or the Indiana Pacers set to become NBA champions. The winning team in these NBA Finals will be the seventh different champion in the last seven seasons, a run the likes of which the league has never experienced before.

“We set out to create a system that allowed for more competition around the league," Silver said Thursday night in his annual news conference before Game 1 of the finals. “The goal being

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