In an interview with Barstool Sports’ Pardon My Take podcast this week, Silver clarified that the commissioner actually does not have the power to veto a trade: “No, believe it or not,” he responded when asked if he has that power. “And there’s some confusion. People have yelled out to me for some reason in the last week or so when I’ve been at games that I should be vetoing that trade the way David Stern vetoed a trade back in the old days. There’s always some confusion there. David never vetoed a trade. When he was the acting owner of the New Orleans [Hornets] and the commissioner at the time, he turned down a trade that was proposed to him by the general manager of the team.”