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IMHO, NBA officials are the best officials in the world period. Not only do they have to be almost perfect mechanically, if they kick a rule they have to write a check worth about 3 high school games. They work around 15 days a month but it is an all day job for them. They meet, work out, log on to their site to look at plays (mandatory), ref the game and then go over the game. I'm not happy all the time about how the game is played but it is entertainment. Millions and millions of dollars are involved with every game and we can't think for one minute that any Joe Blow could be the official for this. It is a tough game to call. For instance, there is no NBA player that can really stop another NBA player defensively. That alone makes thing interesting when you think about help defense, pass/crash, hand checking and block/charge situations. As far as traveling, well I agree they should do something about that. For the people that think Shaq should get called for charging consider the fact that if you called the game the way it was meant to be called he would probably shoot 40 free throws a game! Even at 50 percent that is a lot of points from the line. So a game plan could be give it to Shaq and Malone for the first two quarters and after all of the other team's big men foul out then Mr. Bryant and Mr. Payton could have there way. It wouldn't even matter at that point whether Shaq fouled out of the game. Would that be any fun to watch. More importantly, would someone pay $25 for a nose bleed seat to see the stars foul out? They have to charge so much so they can pay KG his money. Did you know he probably makes $400,000 every two weeks after taxes? That is some serious dough!
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