Report: Jared Kushner ordered story about Silver removed from his newspaper

White House senior adviser and President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner ordered several stories deleted from The New York Observer, a newspaper he previously owned, according to emails obtained by BuzzFeed's Steven Perlberg.

One of the deleted stories was a 2012 piece about NBA commissioner Adam Silver's purchase of a $6.75 million Manhattan apartment.

An NBA spokesperson declined to comment to BuzzFeed on the matter.

Kushner was previously the owner and publisher of the Observer, a weekly tabloid that now publishes exclusively online. He transferred his stake in the media platform into a family trust in 2016, the year Trump was elected.

Kushner and Silver are reported to be friends, and the NBA commissioner once praised Kushner's work as an "unofficial, unpaid adviser" - according to the New Yorker's Lizzie Widdicombe - in the league's search for space for its New York retail store.

Silver has been critical of the often-divisive rhetoric to come out of the Trump White House, most recently defending LeBron James after Trump's weekend Twitter attack.