The NBA playoffs have arrived with a lot of interesting storylines developing, but after commissioner Adam Silver's recent appearance on The Pat McAfee Show there's another topic that is becoming more of a talking point this month.

Commissioner Silver says the NBA has no power to prevent teams from making trades unless they don't conform to league rules.

As Silver mentioned, David Stern's incident blocking a trade that would have sent Chris Paul to the Los Angeles Lakers, teaming up with Kobe Bryant, happened because he was the "acting owner" of the New Orleans Pelicans, not because he was the commissioner at the time.