The innacurracies and incompetency of the referees, David Stern, and the league office has been called into question many times, especially in last years playoff series of the Suns vs. the Spurs when both Amare Stoudemire and Boris Diaw were suspended for one game. Many writers and people have mentioned that since this has been such a great year for the NBA it seems as if everyone has forgotten about the Donaghy scandal and all the problems with the refs in the NBA. I want to answer that with "Wait until the playoffs". This has definitely been a great year for the NBA but I think these issues will pop up again once the playoffs start and there are close games. Imagine watching your team in a close playoff game and the refs make 1 or more idiotic calls that effect the game for your team....
....It will be Stern's fault for not doing anything about it before the season started. I think a lot of people think that at least some of the calls in games are just terrible and that some games are possibly fixed. I mean it seems some fouls called are such bogus while sometimes obvious fouls draw no whistle! There should be a way they can change their wrong call after they call it! It's been said the refs could always call some kind of foul or other penalty on any play if they wanted. I wish someone did a highlight reel of all the bad calls and inconsistent calls and put them on youtube. The NBA is a multi-billion dollar company!! Why can't they just make a clear distinction of what is against the rules and what is not and always enforce it. I don't think anyone would mind if there are 40 referees watching the game from the sidelines, as long as they are objective and consistent in their calls. You would have none of this home team bias, ref working for the mob, people actually having valid arguments against refs.
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
NBA Refs
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