Refs suspended as discussed in Referee Mag.

[AJS]

Anyone read this month's Referee and the articles about referees being suspended for "bad calls". What do you think about this?

I assign and I would never suspend for judgement calls- rules kicked maybe.... but judgement, thats just not right.

If a team doesn't love you and lets me know no problem you don't have to see them, we have plenty of other games.

If you want to get suspended, miss a confirmed assignment, be out of uniform, don't return my calls/e-mails..... but judgement calls! PLEEEEEZE!&%?

[JugglingReferee]

Welcome to the board AJS.

I agree... suspending on judgment calls opens quite the can of worms. An official would have to be very bad for quite some time, and not showing improvement, to justify a suspension.

[Scrapper1]

I remember just last season or maybe the season before when an NBA ref was suspended for 3 game for failing to recognize that a shot hit the rim. Anybody else remember that? It resulted in a shot clock violation (because the shot clock didn't reset) but I don't even think it affected the outcome of the game. But the guy got the boot for 3 games. I thought that was really harsh and undeserved.

I also hate the trend (which I think is a fairly recent development) of announcing through the media when officials are suspended. I think that's totally unnecessary.

[NasdaqRef]

Michael Henderson was the NBA official in question (above). Incidently he is no longer employed by the league.