In case you haven't hear...Joey Crawford

[Texas Aggie]

On the other hand, this didn't work out too well for the baseball guys when they tried something similar.

What they did was resign en masse. That was stupid. That meant the league could cherry pick who they wanted to come back and who they didn't. I realized they followed the advice of their idiot attorney, but they should have been smart enough to think things through.

I'm not saying they should walk, but if they do, they will carry more weight than the baseball umpires would. For one, MLB can get minor league guy and college guys who can do a sufficient job. The rule differences are minor and a lot of those amatuer guys work OBR ball at some level. In they'd have to get 1) the CBA officials; 2) the WNBA officials; 3) the NBADL officials first, then perhaps try to get some college guys who are not used to working NBA rules or their system -- which they value more highly than their rules.

It would be a disaster for the league if the NBA officials did this. I doubt the NBA is going to fire all of them.