Was Dee Kantner And Violet Palmers Hiring Part Of A NBA Cover Up?

[Brian Watson]

How long have you officiated?

If you want to call it discrimination, then so be it, but officials get assignments becasue of who they know, or they have done it a 1000 years, and better officials get passed over every year. Like anything, sometimes it is all about being in the right place at the right time or, who you know. It is not always discrimination, just how the biz works.

Let's jump into your sugar coated dream world and agree the NBA did not hire her simply becasue she was a woman. Do you think the NBA would hire her becasue they lost a court case? Never, they would find someone else with comparable skills to hire. Why? The person who filed the suit has lost all credability. That person could never work the league or have any respect, because everyone there would know she did not make it in through the eval process, but a court case. She would have been set up to fail right from the start. If she did open the door, good for her, but she could have never walked through it, the players and coaches would have never accepted her.

You have to make it on your merits, it seems unfair to people becasue this biz is so subjective, but we all know that going in. Life is not fair, that is why I love lemonade.