Notes from a Day with NBA Referees

[BBert]

Nice explaination of how some of the rules are interpreted...and other observations.

http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/5397/notes-from-a-day-with-nba-referees

 

[HomerLovesKoolAid]

Good read. Even with my new understanding, Denver got screwed multiple times last night.

 

[Wizard Mentor]

Good idea for refs to talk to coaches and the media. However, basically nothing was said on the star system which I certainly believe is alive and well.

Refs in the past have been VERY biased against some teams. My guess, they still are:

There was talk of certain referees being biased against certain teams. Joel Litvin said that they do not take that into consideration at all in assigning referees. And if they really did think a referee had a problem with a certain team, it would be much more serious than an assignment issue. "If we think a referee is biased against a particular team," he says, "he's going to be off the staff. That's a serious, serious issue."

 

[Ed O]

Nice explaination of how some of the rules are interpreted...and other observations.

http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/5397/notes-from-a-day-with-nba-referees

That's interesting... but it's 4.5 years old. It would be interesting to know how much has changed since then.

Ed O.

 

[BBert]

That's interesting... but it's 4.5 years old. It would be interesting to know how much has changed since then.

Ed O.

D'OH!!

 

[HailBlazers]

 

[NOVoodoo]

Surprised that a guy who gets paid to write about the NBA on ESPN didn't know some of that...