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					Originally Posted by  crosscountry55
					 
				 
				BNR may remember this....I was fortunate to be in a teaching session with Donnie Vaden two summers ago and we talked for darn near an hour about the idea of 4-person crews.  He mentioned that other sports have consistently been adding officials/umps, if not for the regular season at least for post-season....so why couldn't the NBA as well?  Then we went into various theories and proposals for how the 4-p mechanics would work.  It was a scintillating whiteboard demo.  Donnie sold Mark Cuban on the idea and evidently, since we're now at the point of experimenting during actual D-League games, he sold enough other people as well. 
 
Hopefully some of our gurus can get some clips of these games and post them for our entertainment and debate. 
			
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 I hate the idea.  3-man is ideal, IMO.  Of course, I'll never work at a level that will implement this, so I am unaffected.