Re: BktBall Ref
 

A leopard can't change his spots.

BTW, Brad is correct in his post. The NBA is a different game and it's officiated differently. The NBA officals are the best basketball officials in the world. Most outside the NBA game have no clue as to the many things they do during a game. There's a reason for everything they call and for everything they don't call. Different game, different officiating. If you don't like the game, fine. But don't blame the officials.

And this is VERY true. I spent the evening at the Rockets/Trailblazers game here in Houston with an NBA observer. Very intriquing. They've got a totally different style of play, thus a different style to officiating. It was an eye opening experince.

Apparently the officials aren't too happy with the league office. It's not too often that they do something as openly confrontational as this:

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=1746204

Thanks, JR.
I was wonderin'.
mick

I saw the story on TV this morning. The article was interesting too. It's unclear where the suspension came from. I'm wondering if it came from Ronnie Nunn or from the administrative side of the league office (in other words, the same guy who hands out suspensions to players for fighting, etc.).

The most disturbing part of the article is the accusation that Nunn personally threatened to fire two officials if they participated in the protest. After meeting Ronnie this summer, I find that really hard to believe. He is a straight-talker, no question; but that kind of conduct doesn't seem like the guy I met, albeit briefly.

The suspension seems excessive to me, unless there are other circumstances that we don't know about. The protest does not seem unreasonable to me. Not a good situation.

Especially since the officials are in the last year of their collective bargaining agreement.

I give the nba officials all kinds of credit for standing up for a second year official and putting themselves in a spot where they could get punished.I don't understand how they officiate but I know they are the best.

Theres a little bit more to the story from what I understand which wasn't a whole lot. It didnt look to terrible in-person or on TV other than you could see the stitch marks and not everyones 62 looked as good as Mike Callahans. LOL. I will say that despite the whole jesery thing these guys conducted themselves proffesionally and according to the NBA. THey made there statement but still did their jobs. NBA officials are held accountable than most of us ever will be unless we get to the level of the NBA. Last night was a great look at that. The conversation between the observer and I was somewhat choppy becasue he was taking notes the whole game but when we did get to talk it was VERY informative.

The NBA may not have the best players (that goes to collegiate) but hands down they have the best officials once you look at what goes into their officiating department/etc.

JA