Adam Silver, the N.B.A. commissioner, …

Adam Silver, the N.B.A. commissioner, attended both of Thursday night’s games, wearing a blue hat and watching from behind plexiglass high above the floor in both the HP Field House (Jazz-Pelicans) and the Arena (Lakers-Clippers) because he has not yet been quarantined and thus cannot be around any of the estimated 1,500 inhabitants of the league’s bubble. Silver, though, did issue a statement affirming that the league will be not be enforcing its longstanding rule, dating to 1981, that mandates all team personnel to stand for the national anthem in a “dignified posture” along a sideline or the foul line. “I respect our teams’ unified act of peaceful protest for social justice and under these unique circumstances will not enforce our longstanding rule requiring standing during the playing of our national anthem,” Silver said.