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Originally Posted by Jimgolf
In a move that seems spurred by the Tim Donaghy scandal and the complaints about official supervision under Ronnie Nunn by former NBA officials, the NBA has hired recent retiree former NBA official Bernie Fryer to assist Ronnie Nunn in supervising NBA officials. His responsibilities will include evaluating the performance of the NBA's 16 full time crew chiefs, while Nunn continues to evaluate the other officials.
Story in the NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/27/sp...in&oref=slogin |
I was really surprised to see Bernie turn out to be a fairly decent ref after he was such a lousy player. OK - he probably wasn't "lousy", but he certainly was no all-star. I wonder how it affects the relationship between a ref and players at that level when the ref is a former player.